Bandhan Bank 

Bandhan Bank is a listed Indian commercial bank whose origin story is unusually specific: it was born on 23 August 2015 after an NGO-to-NBFC-to-bank journey, and it still markets itself with the line Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai. The commercial fact is the scheduled bank, not the NGO chapter. Households and small entrepreneurs who bank with Bandhan are customers of a deposit-taking, credit-giving institution that reports capital, deposits, and advances like any other listed lender. The older development-finance memory remains part of the brand, which is why inclusion language and the CREATE framework appear in corporate communication, but the P&L is a bank P&L. CREATE is the bank’s own packaging of how it wants the franchise to be read—culture, responsibility, and a set of operating themes rather than a single product. The public slogan Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai sits on the same communications layer: a welfare-tilted phrase for a bank that grew out of microfinance geography and now runs a national branch and asset book. As on 30 June 2026 the bank reported deposits of ₹1,64,886 crore and advances of ₹1,55,555 crore. Those two numbers are the scale claim that matters for this listing. They describe a mid-sized Indian bank with a large retail and priority-sector flavour, not a boutique lender and not a payments company. Official channels—Facebook at bandhanbank.in, X at @bandhanbank_in, YouTube at BandhanBankLimited, LinkedIn at /company/bandhanbank, and Instagram at @bandhan_bank—are brand and public-information surfaces. They carry founding-day films, inclusion stories, results headlines, and product colour. They are not core-banking logins and not places to submit loan documents. Confirm the 23 August 2015 commencement date, the NGO–NBFC–bank sequence, CREATE language, and the 30 June 2026 deposit and advance figures in the bank’s own disclosures. Country is India. Language is English for corporate text, with strong Bengali and Hindi presence in consumer creative, reflecting the bank’s eastern-India roots. Readers should treat every post as communication from a bank that began as a 2015 conversion story and now carries a deposit book above one-and-a-half lakh crore rupees and an advance book of similar size—then verify anything material on the issuer website. Unofficial pages that use the Bandhan name to push private loan offers are not the bank.