Canara Bank (BSE: 532483, NSE: CANBK) is an Indian bank headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was established in 1906, making it one of the oldest banks in the country. As of December 2011, the bank had a network of 3564 branches and 4000 ATMs spread across India. The bank also has offices abroad in London, Hong Kong, Moscow, Shanghai, Doha, and Dubai. Widely known for customer centricity, Canara Bank was founded in 1906 by Shri Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, a great visionary and philanthropist, at Mangalore, then a small port in Karnataka. The bank was nationalisated in 1969. In 2006, the bank completed a century of operation in the Indian banking industry. Today, Canara Bank occupies a premier position in the comity of Indian banks with an unbroken record of profits since its inception.
Canara Bank was ranked at 816 in the Forbes Global 2000 list.
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“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)