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Company announcement

Garanti Bank taps Nice for customer analytics

NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) today announced that Turkiye Garanti Bankası A.Ş., Turkey’s second largest private bank, is using NICE’s leading analytics solution to boost efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and ensure greater regulatory adherence.

28 November 2017

Company announcement

Garanti team wins BBVA Open Talent Ideas contest

In a complex environment with interest rates at an all-time low, what business models make sense for both banks and customers?

06 June 2017

News

BBVA launches Wallet app in Turkey as downloads pass the one million mark

BBVA is to launch its mobile payment app in Turkey as the Spanish bank reveals more than one million downloads of the Wallet application in the two years since its launch.

12 November 2015

Finextra TV

The most followed financial institution in Europe

Deniz Güven, senior vice president of digital channels, Garanti Bank, discusses smartphone and internet penetration across Turkey and how it affects Garanti's banking strategy, the significance of being the most followed European financial institution on Facebook and Garanti's ATM strategy.

31 October 2014

News

Turkcell overhauls mobile wallet; brings banks on board

Turkish telco Turkcell has overhauled its mobile wallet service, adding a feature that lets customers make payments at the point-of-sale by entering their phone number.

09 October 2012

News

Garanti gives cardholders Facebook Credits

Turkey's Garanti Bank is to start offering its Bonus cardholders free Facebook Credits when they use their cards to make online and offline purchases.

03 February 2012

News

Turkcell signs Akbank to mobile wallet platform

Akbank has become the third major Turkish bank to join the Cep-T Cüzdan mobile payment service offered by the country's largest telecomms operator Turkcell.

06 January 2012

News

Sibos signing: Deutsche Bank and Turkey's Garanti forge closer ties

Deutsche Bank and Garanti Bank have signed a cooperation agreement for the establishment of a closer global relationship in cross-currency cash management and trade finance.

20 September 2011

Finextra TV

NFC payments service in Turkey

MasterCard, Garanti Bank, Gemalto and Turkish mobile phone provider Avea will go live with a so-called 'BeaverTail' NFC antenna-equipped SIM card mobile payment service in Turkey on Wednesday, 8 December.

08 December 2010

News

Garanti Bank rolls out first NFC payments service in Turkey

MasterCard, Garanti Bank, Gemalto, and Turkish mobile phone provider Avea will go live with a so-called 'BeaverTail' NFC antenna-equipped SIM card mobile payment service in Turkey on Wednesday, 8 December.

07 December 2010

News

Mobey Forum claims m-banking momentum

Mobey Forum, a bank-backed mobile financial services consortium, claims it is now representing over a quarter of the world's banking customers - 450 million people.

28 October 2010

News

Turkey's Garanti Bank to offer customers NFC-enabled SIM cards

Turkey's Garanti Bank is partnering with local wireless operator Avea to provide mobile phone users with NFC-enabled SIM cards that remove the need to buy purpose-built contactless handsets.

24 May 2010