BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 6. Turkmenistan’s Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank has become the market leader in terms of the volume of issued plastic cards, Trend reports with reference to the Central Bank of Turkmenistan.
As of May 1, 2022, Dayhanbank issued more than 1.75 million plastic cards.
Turkmenistan State Commercial ranks second in this indicator with more than 962,100 cards, and the Halkbank Joint-Stock Commercial Bank closes the top-3 with more than 529,300 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 country. Thus, most of the cards issued by the bank were issued to customers in Mary region (515,200), Dashoguz (439,000) and Lebap (399,200) regions.
The other two leaders in the ranking, Turkmenistan State Commercial Bank and Halkbank Joint-Stock Commercial Bank issued most of the cards for holders living in Ashgabat, 455,300 cards and 196,600 cards, respectively.
The table below shows the full ranking of banks in Turkmenistan by the volume of issued plastic cards as of 01.05.2022:
Bank: |
Number of cards |
Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan |
1,752,542 |
Turkmenistan State Commercial Bank | 962,190 |
State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan | 495,973 |
Turkmenbashi State Commercial Bank | 527,779 |
Halkbank Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 529,360 |
Senagat Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 358,960 |
Rysgal State Commercial Bank | 135,556 |
Turkmen-Turkish Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 103,328 |
Total number of cards | 4,865,688 |