The Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited (ICICI)
incorporated at the initiative of the World Bank, the Government of India and
representatives of Indian industry, with the objective of creating a
development financial institution for providing medium-term and long-term
project financing to Indian businesses.
ICICI emerges as the major
source of foreign currency loans to Indian industry. Besides funding from the
World Bank and other multi-lateral agencies, ICICI was also among the first
Indian companies to raise funds from international markets.
ICICI
Bank
was established in 1994 by the Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India, an Indian financial institution, as a wholly owned
subsidiary. The parent company was