Pioneering Activities
Some of the pioneering activities İşbank introduced to the Turkish banking sector…
- Introduced “money box” to the Turkish people to create and foster the key concept of saving
- Originated the practice of using checks in ordinary expenditure payments
- Set up electronic banking in Turkey with “Bankamatik” ATMs
- Established the first Turkish bank branches in Europe and Cyprus
- Offered the first investment account service in Turkey
- Founded the first mutual funds
- Initiated trading in investment securities by a bank in Turkey
- Launched the first interactive telephone banking service
- Introduced the first internet branch
- Started WAP telephone banking transactions
- Began the first Java-based Mobile Phone Banking service
- Introduced the “Floating Account,” Turkey’s first time deposit product with TRLIBOR market-indexed returns
- Set up “Environmentally Responsible Growth Fund” Turkey’s first mutual fund focused on social responsibility
- Launched “Environment Friendly Housing Loan” product to support the development and widespread use of environment friendly technologies in the housing sector
- Started mobile signature implementation that enables borrowing without visiting a bank branch, and card-free cash withdrawal
- Introduced the “Return Wizard,” a return comparison tool that uses the Multi-touch feature
- Launched the “İş’te Yatırım,” the first financial iPhone application that provides live ISE data
- Initiated Video Phone Banking via the third generation (3G) mobile phone technology
- Offered the “Mobile Key” product, which enhances security in Internet Banking and Mobile Banking and also enables customers to withdraw money from ATMs card-free.