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AU Small Finance Bank has allotted 1,83,972 equity shares under ESOP on 22 May 2026. The paid-up equity share capital of the Bank will accordingly increase from Rs. 7,48,55,56,110 to Rs. 7,48,73,95,830.

AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB) announced its collaboration with Intellect Design Arena, a global leader in AI-First, enterprise-grade financial technology, adopting its Purple Fabric platform, the world`s first Open Business Impact AI platform. Through this collaboration, AU SFB aims to accelerate its journey towards becoming an AI-first bank and build a scalable, technology-led banking franchise powered by enterprise-wide intelligence. This engagement marks a defining milestone in the adoption of enterprise AI in Indian banking, bringing together AU SFB`s AI-first ambition and Intellect`s AI-first banking capabilities to deliver enterprise-wide intelligence at scale. It also reflects Intellect`s commitment to leveraging First Principles Thinking and Design Thinking to reimagine enterprise AI and drive scalable, outcome-driven transformation. With a wide network of over 2,790 banking touchpoints across 21 States and 4 Union Territories, covering over 1.2 crore customers, AU SFB is reimagining banking by embedding intelligence across customer journeys, operations, and decision-making. To realize this vision, the Bank sought scalable and flexible AI architecture capable of going beyond ecosystem constraints and enabling domain-driven innovation at scale.By choosing Purple Fabric as its enterprise AI foundation, AU SFB is establishing a scalable platform for enterprise-wide AI, built on model flexibility, domain-driven intelligence, and seamless integration with existing ecosystems to modernize its commercial banking offering. To accelerate this journey and deliver early business impact, the Bank will also leverage PF Credit agents - AI-powered decision engines that can analyse customer data in real time, automate credit assessments, and enable faster, more consistent lending decisions.

AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB) has received RBI`s letter dated 06 May 2026 according its approval to Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMBL) (along with its subsidiaries, the funds/schemes managed by KMBL`s subsidiaries, collective referred as Kotak Mahindra Group) to acquire `aggregate holding` of up to 9.99% of the paid-up share capital or voting rights in AU SFB.

AU Small Finance Bank has allotted 1,96,822 equity shares under ESOP on 30 April 2026. With this allotment, the paid up equity share capital has increased from Rs. 7,48,35,87,890 to Rs. 7,48,55,56,110.

AU Small Finance Bank announced that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on 27 April 2026, inter alia, have recommended the final dividend of Rs 1 per equity Share (i.e. 10%) , subject to the approval of the shareholders.