The Karur Vysya Bank Limited, popularly known as KVB, one such endeavour, was set up in 1916 by two great visionaries and illustrious sons of Karur, the Late Shri M A Venkatarama Chettiar and the Late Shri Athi Krishna Chettiar to inculcate the habit of savings and provide financial assistance to traders and small agriculturists in and around Karur, a textile town in Tamil Nadu.

Though the bank started with a seed capital of Rs.1 lakh, it has withstood innumerable changes and challenges in the past few decades and has profitably emerged as one of the leading banks in India without compromising on its fundamentals.

Karur Vysya is in the Banks - Private Sector sector. The current market capitalisation stands at Rs 5,734.94 crore.

The bank management includes B Swaminathan - Chairman, K Venkataraman - Managing Director & CEO, N S Srinath - Director, V G Mohan Prasad - Director, M K Venkatesan - Director, A K Praburaj - Director, K L Vijayalakshmi - Director, G Rajasekaran - Director, A J Suriyanarayana - Director, M V Srinivasamoorthi - Additional Director, K S Ravichandran - Additional Director.