Hdfc Bank Ltd 6-K, filed Feb 3, 2021
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Hdfc Bank Ltd filed this 6-K on February 3, 2021.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of February, 2021
Commission File Number 001-15216
HDFC BANK LIMITED
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
HDFC Bank House, Senapati Bapat Marg,
Lower Parel, Mumbai. 400 013, India
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F. Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F ☐
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes ☐ No ☒
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82- Not Applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| HDFC BANK LIMITED | ||||||
| (Registrant) | ||||||
| Date: February 2, 2021 | By | IsI Santosh Haldankar | ||||
| Name: Santosh Haldankar | ||||||
| Title: Senior Vice President - Legal & Company Secretary | ||||||
EXHIBIT INDEX
The following documents (bearing the exhibit number listed below) are furnished herewith and are made a part of this Report pursuant to the General Instructions for Form 6-K.
Exhibit I
Description
Communication dated February 2, 2021 addressed to The New York Stock Exchange, 11, Wall Street, New York, NY 10005, United States of America (USA) informing update.
Exhibit I
February 2, 2021
New York Stock Exchange
11, Wall Street,
New York,
NY 10005
USA
Dear Sir,
Sub: Update.
We refer to our intimation dated December 3, 2020 (“Intimation”) on the order issued by the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) dated December 2, 2020 to HDFC Bank Limited (the “Bank”) with regard to certain incidents of outages in the internet banking/ mobile banking/ payment utilities of the Bank over the past 2 years, including the recent outages in the Bank’s internet banking and payment system on November 21, 2020 due to a power failure in the primary data centre.
As an update to the above Intimation, kindly note that RBI has appointed an external professional IT firm for carrying out a special audit of the entire IT infrastructure of the Bank under Section 30 (1-B) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (“the Act”), at the cost of the Bank under Section 30 (1-C) of the Act.
The Bank shall accordingly extend its cooperation to the external professional IT firm so appointed by RBI for conducting the special IT audit as above.
This is for your information and appropriate dissemination.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
For HDFC Bank Limited
Sd/-
Santosh Haldankar
Sr. Vice President (Legal) & Company Secretary