ESAF Small Finance Bank

ESAF Small Finance Bank
FormerlyESAF Microfinance and Investments Pvt. Ltd.
Company typePublic
IndustryBanking
Founded10 March 2017 (2017-03-10)
HeadquartersMannuthy, Thrissur (Registered & Corporate Office)
Number of locations
765 branches (2024)
Area served
India
Key people
Revenue 3,141 crore (US$370 million) (FY23)
893 crore (US$110 million) (FY23)
302 crore (US$36 million) (FY23)
Number of employees
4,100 (2022)
Websitewww.esafbank.com

ESAF Small Finance Bank (formerly known as ESAF Microfinance and Investments) is an Indian small finance bank headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala, providing banking services and small loans to the underbanked. Having started its operations as an NGO in 1992 under the name of Evangelical Social Action Forum, ESAF Microfinance was a non-banking finance company and microfinance institution (NBFC-MFI), licensed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It became a small finance bank in March 2017 and started operating in January 2018.