Nationalised banks, including the State Bank of India (SBI) and its associates, registered 73.2% total bank credit while other scheduled commercial banks logged 17.8% of credit exposure till December 2009, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data released on the Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks: December 2009. The PSBs had the highest share of 50.6% credit exposure during the period. Foreign and regional rural banks had relatively lower shares in the total bank credit, at 5.3% and 2.5%, respectively, during the period.
The nationalised banks, as a group, accounted for more than one-half, at 50.9%, of the aggregate deposits.
