Türkiye İş Bankası is Turkey’s first public bank and premiere national financial institution, ranked 102nd in the Top 1000 World Banks survey of Financial Times’ The Banker and 371th in the Forbes Global 2000 lists as of 2008, with a Gross Profit for the Year 2006 TRY 2,540 million and USD 6.8 billion in Tier I Capital, as defined by Basels Bank for International Settlements. The company offers some of the largest services in Turkey, and operates 891 branches domestically, twelve branches in Germany, two branches in the Netherlands, and one branch each in France and Switzerland and one representative office in China.
The inception of the country’s first truly national bank following the promulgation of the Republic dates back to 26 August 1924, mandated by Atatürk, consequent to the First Economy Congress in İzmir. Isbank begun to operate with two branches and 37 staff under the leadership of Celal Bayar, the first General Manager to run the bank. The bank was partly aided by India through the Imperial State Bank of India in 1927, which was part of generally larger sum given to aid the Turkish Liberation Movement.
The Grand Victory which preceded the proclamation of the Republic order entailed a period during which resolutions to the state’s economic and social problems were sought. There was a growing and deeply rooted sentiment signalling the need for a truly national establishment and the birth of a banking system that was capable of the financing means to back up economic activities, managing funds accumulated as a result of policies providing savings incentives and where necessary extending resources which could trigger industrial impetus.
The birth of a new country heavily depended on the presence of banking activities nation wide, the drive for industrial development, animating national savings, financing fundamental economic breakthroughs and the means to meet financial borrowings. The aftermath of World War I culminated in a wide array of progress, including financial services which soon took off with an accelerated pace leading to technological advances and the designation of previously unheard methods and criteria governing business. Turkey was to suffer deprivation from such innovations and lacked qualified and skilled human resources. Isbank began operating at a time of such economic strain.
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