Informatics inc was incorporated on 30 January 1997 with its registered office in Chennai and started operations on 9 June 1997. In 1998 the company registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a non-banking financial company and in 1999 it formally became a Public Financial Institution. To conform with RBI guidelines, Informatics founded a non-operative financial holding company Informatics Financial Holding Company Limited in 2014 to manage its five subsidiaries Informatics Bank, Informatics MF, Informatics Alternatives, Informatics IDF & Informatics Securities. Informatics is the holding company for NOFHC Informatics Projects Ltd and Informatics Foundation.