Banking - Nepal

Nepal has many nationalized as well as private banking ventures. The highest authority on the pyramid is The Reserve Bank of Nepal. This is the central bank of Nepal, which decides and makes various guidelines for the banking sector of the country. The bank with the largest network in Nepal is The Nepal Bank Ltd. Nepal Banijya Bank closely follows it. Both of them have branches across Nepal. Banks are open 9 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday but many of them in Katmandu are open through out the week. Apart from that, you have private ventures such as Bank of Katmandu and Himalayan Bank that operates in most of the areas in Nepal.

As far as foreign ventures are concerned, you have likes of Nepal Bangladesh Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Nepal Arab Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Nepal Indo-Suez Bank and Nepal Sri Lanka Merchant Bank that offers their services to the tourists.