Facilities and Options to shareholders

• Nomination Facility
• Change of address
• Bank details on Dividend Warrants
• Unclaimed Dividends & Issue of Duplicate Dividend Warrants
• Dematerialization of Shares
• Bank details for Electronic Shareholdings
• Transfer of Shares
• Loss of share certificates and issue of duplicate share Certificates
• Transmission of Shares
• Splitting of share certificates
• Consolidation of share certificates
• Renewal of certificates (issue of fresh certificates in lieu of torn or mutilated certificates)

Nomination Facility: Every shareholder of the Bank may, at any time, nominate in the prescribed manner, a person to whom his / her shares in the Bank shall vest in the event of his/her death. Where more than one person holds the shares jointly, the joint holders may together nominate, in the prescribed manner, a person to whom all the rights in the shares of the Bank shall vest in the event of death of all the joint holders. Nomination Form (Form 2B) can be downloaded from here.

Accordingly, the shareholders holding the shares in physical form can avail the nomination facility by filling the duly filled in Form 2B with the Bank or with the Registrars and transfer Agents of the Bank at the following address: M/s. Karvy Computeshare (P) Ltd., Unit: SyndicateBank, Plot No. 17 to 24, Vithalrao Nagar, Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500081

Change of address: If you change your address, kindly notify your new address to the Investor Relations Centre of the Bank/our Registrars & Transfer Agents of our Bank to enable it to take your new address on our record. Any delay in such intimation or in the absence of any such intimation will lead to your dividend warrants, annual reports and various communications being returned undelivered in post.

Any intimation of change of address should be signed by the sole or the first joint holder of shares. If there is a material variation in signature from that registered with the Bank, the signature on the letter should be attested by the shareholders' Bank.

Bank details on Dividend Warrants: If you have not opted for the ECS facility or in case the location of the Bank / Branch indicated by you is not among the centres covered by ECS facility and desire to incorporate your bank details on the dividend warrant, kindly furnish the particulars. We wish to assure you that our dividend warrants incorporating your name and particulars of your Bank Account, will be mailed directly to your address. Kindly be rest assured that the information provided by you will be kept confidential and will be used only for the purpose of remittance of your dividend.

In order to provide protection against fraudulent encashment of dividend warrants, Shareholders are requested to provide, if not provided earlier, their Bank Account numbers, names and addresses of the bank branches, quoting their Folio numbers, to the Investor Relations Centre of the Bank/our Registrars M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad to enable us to incorporate the same on their dividend warrants.

Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) for remittance of dividend: In order to avoid the postal delay, loss in transit, fraudulent encashment by third parties, etc., Bank has made available ECS facility for payment of Dividend / Interest etc., that ensures timely credit of dividends directly into the Bank account of the shareholders. This facility is available for remittance of dividend warrants for amounts upto Rs. 1,00,000.At present, ECS facility is available in respect of the following centres:
1. Agra 2. Ahmedabad 3. Allahabad 4. Amritsar 5. Bhopal 6. Bangalore 7. Bhubaneshwar 8. Chandigarh 9.Chennai 10. Coimbatore 11. Dehradun 12. Durgapur 13. Faridabad 14. Ghaziabad 15. Guwahati 16. Hubli 17. Hyderabad 18 Indore 19. Jamshedpur 20. Jaipur 21. Kanpur 22. Kochi 23. Kolhapur 24. Kolkata 25. Lucknow 26. Ludhiana 27. Madurai 28. Mangalore 29. Mumbai 30. Nagpur 31. Nashik 32. New Delhi 33. Panaji 34. Patna 35. Pune 36. Rajkot 37. Siliguri 38. Shimla 39. Surat 40. Tiruchirapalli 41. Thiruvananthapuram 42. Trichur 43. Vadodara 44. Varanasi 45. Vijayawada 46. Visakhapatnam.
The shareholders are requested to avail this facility. Duly filled in ECS forms can be sent directly to our Registrars & Share Transfer Agents at the following address: M/s. Karvy Computeshare (P) Ltd., Unit:SyndicateBank, Plot No. 17 to 24, Vithalrao Nagar, Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500081. ECS Application Form can be downloaded from here.

It is also available with our Registrar & Share Transfer Agents M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad/our Investor Relations Centre, Bangalore. You may submit the duly completed ECS Application form along with a copy of your Bank's cheque. You may use the same form for notifying any change in the particulars of your Bank Account. Kindly ensure that any such change should be notified at least one month before remittance of dividend through ECS. After remittance of dividend through ECS, we shall send you an intimation furnishing details of payment made through ECS for your information and record.

Unclaimed Dividend & Issue of Duplicate Dividend Warrants: If any of our shareholders have not received their dividend remittances, kindly write to our Investor Relations Centre/our Registrars and Transfer Agents, M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad by e-mail or fax. You can also download Indemnity Bond Form to apply for issue of Duplicate Dividend warrant from here and send the filled-up form to our Investor Relations Centre/our Registrars and Transfer Agents, M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad.
Indemnity Bonds for issue of Duplicate Dividend warrants may be executed on a plain paper (Non-Judicial Stamp Paper [NJS] not required) in respect of Dividends not execeeding Rs.1000.00 per warrant. In respect of Dividends exceeding Rs.1000.00 Indemnity Bonds are to be executed on a NJS of Rs.20.00

Dematerialization of shares: The Bank has entered into an agreement with National Securities Depository Ltd.(NSDL) and Central Depository Services(India) Ltd.(CDSL) as an issuer company for dematerialization of Bank's shares. The shareholders shall open a demat account with any of the depository participants for dematerialization of their shares. Shareholders shall submit their request for dematerialization through respective depository participants to our Registrars and Share Transfer Agents M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad for dematerialization of shares.

Bank details for Electronic Shareholdings: While opening Accounts with Depository Participants (DPs), you may have given your Bank Account details, which will be used by the Bank for printing on dividend warrants or remittance of dividend. This ensures that the dividend warrants, even if lost or stolen, cannot be used for any purpose other than for depositing the money in the Account specified on the dividend warrants and ensures safety for investors. However, if you wish to receive dividend in an Account other than the one specified while opening the Depository Account, you may change / correct Bank Account details with your DP. Shareholders are requested to furnish complete details of their Bank Accounts including MICR codes of their Bank to their DPs.

Transfer of shares: Pursuant to the directive given by SEBI, trading of our Bank shares in Dematerialised form has been made compulsory for all investors with effect from June 26, 2000. It provides better safety and liquidity to the shareholders. Shareholders shall dematerialise their shares to enable them to sell their shares through stock market.

The shareholders who are holding the shares in physical form can transfer their shares through off market by executing a transfer deed in the prescribed form. The transferees shall submit the duly executed and filled in transfer deed along with the original share certificates to our Registrars & Transfer Agents M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad for transfer of shares in their favour.

Loss of share certificates and issue of duplicate share Certificates: Upon loss of share certificate, a shareholder should intimate our Registrar & Transfer Agents, M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad and send a copy of First Information Report (FIR) obtained from the police authorities. On receipt of FIR copy and after verifying the signature of the investor on the intimation letter, the Share Transfer Agents will note 'Stop Transfer' against the loss of share certificate. The Bank shall then send the text of the indemnity bond to be executed on non-judicial stamp paper of Rs.100. After receipt of duly executed indemnity bond and issue of a Public Notice in a newspaper, the Bank shall arrange to issue a duplicate share certificate. Download Indemnity Bond Form for issue of duplicate share certificate from here.

Transmission of Shares: To facilitate easier transmission of physical shares held by small investors; the Bank has waived the requirement of producing Probate / Letter of Administration / Succession Certificate for shares upto 2000 or shares of market value of Rs.1,00,000 whichever is lower. The legal heirs of the deceased shareholders who hold upto 2000 shares or shares of market value of Rs.1,00,000 whichever is lower, need to submit the following documents for transmitting the shares in their name (Download Transmission Application Form from here)

1. Request for transmission.
2. Copy of death certificate duly notarised.
3. Letter of Indemnity made on appropriate non-judicial stamp paper.
4. An affidavit on appropriate non-judicial stamp paper.
5. A surety form from a person acceptable to the Bank.
6. (i) No Objection Certificate from the legal heir who do not object to such transmission or (ii) Proof about indemnity of the nominee, in case of nomination.
7. Original Share Certificate.

Splitting of Share Certificates: If you wish to split your single share certificate, you may send your request to the Investor Relations Centre/our Registrars & Share Transfer Agents, M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad together with the original share certificates.

Consolidation of shareholdings into one Folio: The Bank provides facility for consolidation of share certificates into one certificate. The shareholders may write to the Investor Relations Centre/ our Registrars & Share Transfer Agents, M/s. Karvy Computershare Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad for consolidation of shareholdings into one folio.

Renewal of certificates: (issue of fresh certificates in lieu of torn or mutilated certificates) In case your share certificate is torn or mutilated, you may surrender the share certificate(s) to our Registrars & Transfer Agents for issue of fresh certificate(s) in lieu of such certificate(s).