YES BANK, Indias new age private sector Bank, is an outcome of the professional entrepreneurship of its Founder, Rana Kapoor and his highly competent top management team, to establish a high quality, customer centric, service driven, private Indian Bank catering to “Emerging Indiaâ€ï†. YES BANK is the only Greenfield license awarded by the RBI in the last 12 years, associated with the finest pedigree investors. The Bank has adopted international best practices, the highest standards of service quality and operational excellence, and offers comprehensive banking and financial solutions to all its valued customers. A key strength and differentiating feature of YES BANK is its knowledge driven approach, which goes beyond the traditional realm of banking. YES BANK has been ranked SECOND amongst New Private Sectors Banks, in the Financial Express survey of Indias Best Banks for 2006, while being ranked #1 on the key parameter of Growth, among 64 Private, Public and Foreign Banks in India. YES BANK in December had been ranked # 3 in “The BW Banking Special 2006 – An Annual Survey of Indias Best Listed Public and Private Banksâ€ï†, while being ranked # 1 on the key parameters of Safety, Efficiency & Growth (3 out of 6), making this a meaningful and significant achievement. YES BANK recently received the prestigious Euromoney – Trade Finance ‘Deal of The Year award for a structured & innovative Rural Financing solution in providing loans to over 2000 nomadic honey bee farmers in Jammu & Kashmir. YES BANK was the only Indian private sector Bank to have won this award as the lead arranger out of a total of 367 deals presented across 30 countries. YES BANK has also been invited to be a member of the select Community of Global Growth Companies (GGC) at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos. YES BANK is the only Indian Bank to have been identified by The Forum as one of Indias growing organizations on the way to becoming a global industry leader. YES BANK has recently become the first Indian Bank to become a signatory with the United Nations Environment Programme (Financial Initiative), aimed to support and expand the Responsible Banking practice. YES BANK has also recently launched YES MICROFINANCE INDIA, a specialized division of the Bank focused on developing a pioneering strategy of Direct Intervention for the microfinance domain in collaboration with ACCION International, USA.
