Banking in India and regulations of the Reserve Bank of India, banks in India except the State Bank of India (SBI), remain owned and operated by private persons. By the 1960s, the Indian banking industry had become an important tool to facilitate the development of the Indian economy. At the same time, it had emerged as a large employer, and a debate had ensued about the nationalisation of the banking industry. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, expressed the intention of the Government of India in the annual conference of the All India Congress Meeting in a paper entitled ""Stray thoughts
Guardian Bank Guardian Bank Guardian Bank, whose full name is Guardian Bank Limited, is a commercial bank in Kenya with headquarters in Nairobi. It is licensed by Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator. , the bank was a medium-sized retail bank, with an asset base totaling approximately US$163.3 million (KES:14.195 billion), and shareholders' equity of about US$18.8 million (KES:1.626 billion). At that time, Guardian Bank was ranked number 31, by assets, among 43 licensed financial institutions in its class. Guardian Bank was established in 1992 as "Euro Finance Limited", a non-bank financial institution. As a result of