- Business
- Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. (HALKB.IS) operates as a major Turkish commercial bank focused on serving small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), tradesmen, artisans, corporate clients, and retail customers; it provides a comprehensive range of banking products and services including deposit accounts such as e-deposits, time deposits in TL/FX, current accounts, gold deposits, and safety deposit boxes; cash and non-cash loans encompassing personal, auto, mortgage, overdraft, commercial, vehicle, housing, consumer, and project financing; cards and payment services; insurance products; derivative instruments; investment options like investment funds (Fon24), government bonds, Eurobonds, repos, forwards, options, and swaps; cash management; internet, mobile, and SMS banking; financial leasing; factoring; brokerage; and capital markets activities involving real estate-based instruments. The bank operates through segments including corporate, commercial, SME and integrated, and treasury/investment, with domestic branches across Turkey, foreign branches in Cyprus and Bahrain, and representative offices in England and Iran; it maintains subsidiaries such as Halk Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. (brokerage), Halk Sigorta A.Ş. (insurance), Halk Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. (life insurance), Halk Faktoring A.Ş. (factoring), and associates including DHB Bank NV and various venture capital firms; Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş. functions as a subsidiary of the Turkey Wealth Fund and is headquartered in Istanbul, where it was founded in 1933. Recent developments include a 33% expansion in total assets to over 4 trillion Turkish lira as of Q3 2025, with cash loans up 24% to 1.8 trillion lira and deposits rising 33% to 3.2 trillion lira; issuance of a $700 million subordinated Additional Tier 1 eurobond in June 2025 arranged by Citi and ICBC Standard Bank after a nine-year hiatus; approval from the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency for Halk Katılım Bankası to launch participation banking operations in 2026; enhanced SME and women entrepreneur financing totaling 111 billion lira since 2021; title sponsorship of women's basketball leagues for 2025-2026; and ongoing efforts toward a potential settlement in a U.S. criminal case involving sanctions allegations.