BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 7. Turkmenistan’s Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank has become the market leader in terms of the volume of issued plastic cards, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan told Trend.
As of March 1, 2022, Daihanbank issued more than 1.7 million plastic cards.
Turkmenistan State Commercial ranks second in this indicator with more than 955,400 cards, and the Turkmenbashi Joint Stock Commercial Bank closes the top-3 with more than 520,300 cards.
At the same time, Dayhanbank, according to the data of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, mainly works with clients in the regions of the republic. Thus, most of the cards issued by the bank were issued to customers in Mary region (509.700), Dashoguz (432.200) and Lebap (395.000) regions.
The other two leaders in the ranking, Turkmenistan State Commercial Bank and Turkmenbashi Bank issued most of the cards for holders living in Ashgabat, 452.300 cards and 185.800 cards, respectively.
The table below shows the full ranking of banks in Turkmenistan by the volume of issued plastic cards as of 01.03.2022:
|
number of cards | |
| Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan | 1 732 535 | |
| Turkmenistan State Commercial Bank | 955 402 | |
| State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan | 502 653 | |
| Turkmenbashi State Commercial Bank | 520 399 | |
| Halkbank State Commercial Bank | 515 255 | |
| Senagat Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 347 445 | |
| Rysgal State Commercial Bank | 134 447 | |
| Turkmen-Turkish Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 101 230 | |
| Total number of cards | 4 809 366 |