India: Shivalik Mercantile gets RBI’s in-principle approval for small finance bank

India: Shivalik Mercantile gets RBI’s in-principle approval for small finance bank

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Reserve Bank of India on Monday granted in-principle approval to Uttar Pradesh-based Shivalik Mercantile Cooperative Bank Ltd to convert into a small finance bank, becoming the first urban cooperative bank to do so since the guidelines came out nearly two years ago.