Ziraat Bankası (Turkey)

Key details

• Users: 30M customers

Overview

Ziraat Bankası (Turkey) is Turkey's largest bank by assets + oldest Turkish bank since 1863 + Turkish government Turkey Wealth Fund TWF fully owned post-2017 + ~30M customers + 22+ countries international banking footprint + founded by Mithat Paşa Ottoman statesman [1, tr-cro].

History

1863 — Ziraat Bankası founded by Mithat Paşa Ottoman statesman in Pirot (then Ottoman Empire, now Serbia) distinctive Ottoman + Turkish banking heritage (one of world's oldest agricultural development banks).

1924 — Ziraat Bankası reorganized as joint-stock company by Atatürk's Republic of Turkey.

2010 — Ziraat Mobil mobile banking app launch distinctive Turkish mobile banking strategy.

2017 — Ziraat Bankası transferred to Turkey Wealth Fund TWF as state-owned commercial bank.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. (Turkey's largest bank by assets + oldest Turkish bank since 1863).

Major shareholders: Turkey Wealth Fund TWF (Turkish state sovereign wealth fund) fully owned.

Regulators: BDDK Turkey (Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency) + CBRT (Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye).

Technical integration

Ziraat Mobil mobile banking app (iOS + Android; ~30M customers) + ziraatbank.com.tr online + Ziraat Bankası branch network across Turkey + 22+ countries + Ziraat Visa + Mastercard + Troy cards; TR IBAN + Troy (Turkish card payment network) + FAST (Turkish instant payments).

Implementations & partners

Major Turkish banking + payments competitors: [[isbank-tr]] (Türkiye İş Bankası; Turkey's largest private commercial bank by assets) + [[garanti-bbva]] (Garanti BBVA Turkey; BBVA Spanish parent ~85% controlling) + [[akbank]] (Akbank Turkey; Sabancı Holding majority controlling) + [[yapi-kredi]] (Yapı ve Kredi Bankası; Koç Holding + UniCredit JV) + [[denizbank]] (DenizBank Turkey; Emirates NBD UAE parent ~99.85% controlling) + [[qnb-finansbank]] (QNB Finansbank; QNB Qatar parent ~99.81% controlling) + [[halkbank]] (Türkiye Halk Bankası Turkish state-owned commercial bank) + [[vakifbank]] (VakıfBank Turkish state-owned commercial bank) + [[enpara]] (Enpara.com QNB Finansbank Turkish digital bank) + [[teb-bnp]] (Türk Ekonomi Bankası TEB; BNP Paribas French parent + Çolakoğlu Group JV).

Regulators: BDDK + CBRT.

Status

Active, Turkey's largest bank by assets + oldest Turkish bank since 1863 + Turkish government Turkey Wealth Fund TWF fully owned + ~30M customers + 22+ countries international banking footprint [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 Ziraat Bankası — official
• 2 Ziraat Bankası — Wikipedia
• tr-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/TR-turkey.md

Source

Biography extracted from ziraat-bankasi.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.