Sadananda, R.Gopal, M.George, S.Argyros, I.K.2026-02-032025Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, 2025, 41, 2, pp. 479-50215842851https://doi.org/10.37193/CJM.2025.02.14https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/20494A class of iterative methods was developed by Xiao and Yin in 2015 and obtained convergence order five using Taylor expansion. They had imposed the conditions on the derivatives of the involved operator of order at least up to four. In this paper, the order of convergence is achieved by imposing conditions only on the first two derivatives of the operator involved. The assumptions under consideration are weaker and the analysis is done in the more general setting of Banach spaces without using Taylor series expansion. The semi-local convergence analysis is also given. Further, the theory is justified by numerical examples. © 2024, SINUS Association. All rights reserved.Banach spaceFrèchet derivativeIterative methodsLocal convergenceOrder of convergenceSemi-local convergence