AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB) received in-principal approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to transition from a Small Finance Bank (SFB) to a Universal Bank.
This marks AU SFB as the first Small Finance Bank in India to get RBI approval for universal banking status.
AU Small Finance Bank began operations in 1996 as AU Financiers and became a Small Finance Bank in April 2017.
The bank is India’s largest Small Finance Bank by scale and service reach.