Allahabad Bank (ALLBANK) is the oldest public sector bank in India. It was incorporated in 1865 by a few Europeans and was later nationalized in 1969. Avinash Chander Mahajan is the chairman and managing director. The bank offers services like the AllBank-Expo scheme, personal and other loans, housing finance, deposit schemes to non-resident Indians etc. Other services include AllBank-Property, depository services, insurance linked deposit products, life insurance cover for housing loan customers, sale of insurance products (Bancassurance tie-ups), sale of mutual fund products, ATM cum international debit cards etc. The bank has introduced doorstep banking for customers in a select number of branches. It also started the reverse mortgage program for senior citizens. It has 2,107 branches 44 zonal offices, 245 retail bank boutique branches, 33 7-day banking branches as of June 2007.
Company Results Update
Public sector lender Allahabad Bank has reported a 21.22% jump in net profit to Rs 488.01 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 402.57 crore for the second quarter last fiscal. The operating profit of the bank increased by 21.47% to Rs 949.29 crore during the quarter from Rs 781.53 crore in the year-ago period. The bank's net interest margin (NIM) was 3.68% during the second quarter, as against 3.34% in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal, Allahabad Bank Chairman and Managing Director J P Dua said while announcing the results on Wednesday.
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