OBC has entered into an arrangement with two other PSBs to shore up its fee-based income and diversify its operations.”

Established in Lahore on February 19, 1943, Oriental Bank of Commerce made a modest beginning under its Founding Father and the first Chairman, Late Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal. Within four years of coming into existence, the Bank had to face the holocaust of partition. Branches in the newly formed Pakistan had to be closed down and the Registered Office had to be shifted from Lahore to Amritsar.

Late Lala Karam Chand Thapar, the then Chairman of the Bank, in a unique gesture honored the commitments made to the depositors from Pakistan and paid every rupee to its departing customers. The foundation of customer service thus laid has ever since remained Oriental Bank's prime philosophy and has been nurtured well as a legacy by all its successors, year after year.

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