On October 26, 2005 the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Heads of Governments (Prime Ministers) Council took a decision to establish the SCO Interbank Consortium and signed the Agreement on Interbank Cooperation (Consortium) in the SCO framework.
The members of the SCO IBC are the Development Bank of Kazakhstan, the State Development Bank of China, the Settlement & Savings Company of the Kyrgyz Republic "RSK Bank", the State Development Corporation of the Russian Federation "VEB.RF", the State Savings Bank of the Republic of Tajikistan "Amonatbonk", the National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In June 2018-2019, the India Infrastructure Finance Company and Habib Bank Limited of the Republic of Pakistan received the status of SCO IBO member banks.