Kolkata-based Punjab National Bank (PNB) has announced its plans to open a 100%-owned subsidiary in Canada in 2010, in part to capitalize on the Punjabi Diaspora. It worked in the UK.
The Managing Director notes, "We have to go overseas now as merely 2-3% of our total business comes from abroad."
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