Is South Indian Bank A Nationalized Bank

South Indian Bank Limited (SIB) is a nationalized bank? for proof provide me the list of all nationalized banks of India? Where the head quarter of South Indian Bank Limited is located? Provide me the help line number and the toll free number of the South Indian Bank Limited?

I would like to know if South Indian Bank is a Nationalized Bank or Not as well as a brief about South Indian Bank?

[Raman Vij]

South Indian Bank Limited (SIB) is a private sector bank with its head quarters at Thrissur City in Kerala, India. South Indian Bank has almost 897 branches, 4 service branches,27 ext.counters and 20 regional offices spread across more than 26 states and 3 union territories in India.

The vision of South indian Bank is to be the most preferred bank in the areas of customer service, stakeholder value and corporate governance as well as its mission is to provide a secure, agile, dynamic and conducive banking environment to customers with commitment to values and unshaken confidence, deploying the best technology, standards, processes and procedures where customer convenience is of significant importance and to increase the stakeholders’ value.

Milestones of the South Indian Bank are as follows:

The FIRST among the private sector banks in Kerala to become a scheduled bank in 1946 under the RBI Act.

The FIRST bank in the private sector in India to open a Currency Chest on behalf of the RBI in April 1992.

The FIRST private sector bank to open a NRI branch in November 1992.

The FIRST bank in the private sector to start an Industrial Finance Branch in March 1993.

The FIRST among the private sector banks in Kerala to open an "Overseas Branch" to cater exclusively to the export and import business in June 1993.

The FIRST bank in Kerala to develop an in-house, a fully integrated branch automation software in addition to the in-house partial automation solution operational since 1992.

The FIRST Kerala based bank to implement Core Banking System.

The THIRD largest branch network among Private Sector banks, in India, with all its branches under Core banking System.

Some of the nationalized Banks in India are as listed below:

Allahabad Bank
Andhra Bank,
Bank of Baroda,
Bank of India,
Bank of Maharashtra,
Canara Bank,
Central Bank of India,
Corporation Bank,
Dena Corporate Centre
Indian Bank