Plain speaking
No jargon, no asterisks. Every charge is written where you can find it.
Who we are
A neighbourhood bank, at national scale
Sample Bank started in 1994 with one branch and a simple idea: banking should be easy to understand. Thirty years later that has not changed — there is just rather more of it.
Clients onboarded
5
Branches
128
Years of service
30
Staff
2,400
What we stand for
Three things we refuse to compromise on.
Careful with your money
Conservative lending and deposits insured up to ₹5,00,000.
Built for the long term
Three decades in, most of our customers have been with us for over ten years.
How we got here
A short history of the bank.
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1994
The first branch
Opened with twelve staff and a single counter in Pune.
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2003
Fifty branches
Grew across Maharashtra and Karnataka, still on one core ledger.
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2011
Banking goes online
Net banking launched, followed by our first mobile app two years later.
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2019
Paperless onboarding
PAN based account opening replaced the branch visit for good.
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Today
128 branches
Serving families and small businesses in eleven states.
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