YES BANK, India’s 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 India”. YES BANK is the only Greenfield license awarded by the RBI in the last 13 years, associated with the finest pedigree investors. YES BANK has fructified into a “full service” commercial Bank that has steadily built Corporate and Institutional Banking, Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Business and Transaction Banking, Retail and Private Banking business lines across the country, and is well equipped to offer a range of products and services to corporate and retail customers.
The Bank has adopted international best practices, the highest standards of service quality and operational excellence, with innovative state-of-the-art technology, 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, and helps adoption of a diagnostic and prescriptive approach towards superior product structuring. YES BANK has constituted a specialized ‘Development and Knowledge Banking Division’ focusing on key growth sectors like Infrastructure, Food & Agribusiness, Telecommunications, Lifesciences, Media & Technology, Manufacturing and Textiles, to orchestrate several initiatives to ensure social and economic value generation for society.
YES BANK has a vision to champion ‘Responsible Banking’ in India where the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability are embedded in the DNA of the organization and integrated in its Business Focus. YES BANK is committed to adding long term value to society, to differentiate itself in the marketplace based on a strong 'sustainability mandate' and to build in flexibility and openness as part of its core strategy. The Bank has engaged with global thought leadership forums like the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) and Tallberg Forum. YES BANK has recently become the first Indian Bank to become a signatory with the United Nations Environment Programme (Financial Initiative).
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. YES MICROFINANCE INDIA will concentrate on providing holistic financial solutions including credit, savings, insurance and transfer services to both rural and urban areas reaching out to first time accessors of formal financial services.
YES BANK has invested in several state-of-the-art technology initiatives and successfully implemented them. Since inception, YES BANK has pursued outsourcing aggressively as part of its strategy. The philosophy of the Bank has been to engage with select partner companies – who are acknowledged leaders in their products or businesses – in developing specific solutions for YES BANK, that are differentiators in the marketplace. To achieve this goal, YES BANK has aligned with partners such as IBM for hardware, Microsoft and Oracle for environmental software (O/s and Database products), iFlex, Murex, FundTech (formerly CashTech), Nucleus, CMC Limited and Winsoft for Core applications and several others for point solutions. To manage IT operations and also lend infrastructure as well as application support, YES BANK Ltd. has also entered into a long term Total Outsourcing arrangement with Wipro Limited.
The Human Capital engagement practices at YES BANK are targeted at developing the YES BANK brand as an ‘Employer of Choice’. The Bank has focused on attracting and retaining the best talent from India and abroad. Within the short span of just over 3 years, Management Talent at YES BANK is regarded as one of the best in the Indian Banking sector. YES BANK aims to build a culture and environment that supports Professional Entrepreneurship, and is built on the core principle of Creating and Sharing Value.
YES BANK has received significant national and international recognition which includes:

CEO with HR Orientation award at the Times Ascent HR Excellence Awards on August 24, 2007 in Bangalore.
No. 2 Ranking amongst New Private Sectors Banks, at the Financial Express Awards for India’s Best Banks of 2006, while being ranked #1 on the key parameter of Growth, among 64 Private, Public and Foreign Banks in India.
No. 3 Ranking in “The BW Banking Special 2006 – An Annual Survey of India's Best Listed Public and Private Banks”, while being ranked # 1 on the key parameters of Safety, Efficiency & Growth (3 out of 6).
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.
Founding 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 India’s growing organizations on the way to becoming a global industry leader.
Included as the Chairman’s Circle Member of the US-India British Council’s (USIBC) significant initiatives to enhance trade and investment opportunities between India and US.
Received the Environment Leadership award from USAID.
Awarded the ‘IT Innovations in Emerging India’ by NASSCOM in April 2006.
Continuous Innovation in HR Strategy award at The Indiatimes Mindscape Employer Branding Awards 2007.
Most Innovative Recruiting and Staffing Programme award at the Recruitment & Staffing Best in Class (RASBIC) Awards 2006.
Organization with Most Innovative HR Practices award at the Global HR Excellence Awards, both part of the Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2007 held from February 1-3, 2007 in Mumbai. These awards were instituted to recognize the pursuit of excellence in Human Capital across the Global Corporate Sector across 60 countries.