Turkish Garanti BBVA Introduces Biometric Card To Enhance Banking Experience
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Garanti BBVA, a prominent bank in Turkey, has launched a Mastercard contactless credit card. This innovative card comes with an in-built fingerprint scanner.
In other to pay with the bonus Platinum Biometric credit Card, customers can touch a contactless terminal and verify their fingerprints. Clients can also decide to include a password requirement.
Garanti BBVA Wants To Simplify Banking Experience For Customers
Deputy General Manager of Garanti BBVA, Murat Çağrı Süzer stated that, while using the Bonus Platinum Biometric Card, clients can make safe payments easily and quickly by using their fingerprint. They don’t have to recall their PINs or specify contactless limits.
Garanti Payment and Digital Currency Service is now getting ready to introduce a beta release of its online banking services Branded as TAMİ.
TAMİ will enable small, medium, and big companies based in Turkey to collect and monitor payments without difficulty. It will also allow the companies to offer installment payment options from all banks to their customers.
Garanti offers solutions in all areas of business such as investment, SME, corporate, commercial, retail, payment systems, and private banking. Alongside its international and domestic subsidiaries Garanti Bank Moscow, Garanti Bank SA, and Garanti Bank International, Garanti also provides solutions in asset management, brokerage, factoring, leasing, life insurance, and pension.
Garanti Bank Aims To Revolutionize Turkey’s Financial Sector
Geranki Bank is ranked as the second leading private bank in Turkey, with consolidated assets worth $104.1 billion as of March 31, 2013.
Its shares are traded publicly in the US, the UK, and Turkey, with an actual 50.76% of free float as of March 31, 2013. Garanti shares are listed on public exchange in Turkey and depository receipts in the US and the UK.
Garanti Bank caters to twelve million users through 872 branches within the region, with one branch in Malta and 7 other branches in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Moreover, it also has 2 international representative offices in Shanghai and Dusseldorf. The bank also provides advanced technology infrastructure such as a mobile and social banking platform, a call center, and internet, along with over 5,290 ATMs.
Garanti Bank was founded by 103 co-founders as a joint-stock firm in Ankara, in 1946. The Founder of the Bank consisted of individuals seeking to invest their accumulated fortunes from post-World War II businesses. The founding capital of the bank amounted to TL2.5 million, divided into 25,000 shares valued at TL100 each.
