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- Türkiye Is Bankasi A.S. (ISCTR.IS) is Turkey's largest private bank, providing a comprehensive range of retail, corporate, commercial, SME, private, agricultural, and investment banking products and services primarily in Turkey with select international operations. The bank offers personal, car, housing, cash, and non-cash loans; debit and credit cards; deposit products including term and non-term deposits; investment services such as mutual funds, gold accounts, debt instruments, equities, warrants, eurobonds, futures, and options; cash management solutions encompassing payment and liquidity management, e-solutions, salary payments, cheques, promissory notes, direct debiting, automatic collections, and retailer cards; foreign trade financing; multinational and expat banking; private banking and asset management; payment services for taxes, bills, student fees, Western Union transfers, insurance, consumer loans, credit cards, and rent; insurance products including compulsory earthquake, motor third-party liability, comprehensive motor, health, personal accident, workplace, life critical illness, credit card protection, and loan protection policies; pension funds; and additional activities in reinsurance, real estate investment trusts, house brokerage, facility management, and publishing. Founded in 1924 at the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and headquartered at Is Kuleleri in Istanbul's Levent district, the bank operates through an extensive domestic branch network and digital platforms like its award-winning İşCep mobile app, serving individuals, SMEs, large corporations, and multinational clients across various sectors. In 2024, Türkiye Is Bankasi secured approximately USD 360 million in funding via a securitization program linked to foreign remittance flows, with participation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, allocating portions to green economy financing, SME digital transformation, and women entrepreneurs; the bank has also issued Tier 2 Eurobonds and green bonds abroad in 2025, alongside domestic bill issuances, reflecting ongoing capital market engagement and strategic support for sustainable initiatives.