BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 9. Turkmenistan’s Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank has become the local leader in terms of the volume of issued plastic cards, Trend reports with reference to the Central Bank of Turkmenistan.
As of the beginning of February 2023, Dayhanbank has issued more than 1.86 million plastic cards.
Turkmenistan State Commercial ranked second with more than 1 million cards, with Halkbank Joint-Stock Commercial Bank closing the Top 3 with more than 596,081 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 the Mary region (553,767), Dashoguz (460,752) and Lebap (418,541) 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, 475,631 cards and 217,511 cards, respectively.
Full ranking of banks in Turkmenistan by the volume of issued plastic cards as of 01.02.2023:
| Bank: | Number of cards |
| Dayhanbank State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan | 1,866,076 |
| Turkmenistan State Commercial Bank | 1,013,991 |
| Halkbank Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 596,081 |
| Turkmenbashi Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 563,670 |
| State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan | 488,738 |
| Senagat Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 406,564 |
| Rysgal Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 158,435 |
| Turkmen-Turkish Joint-Stock Commercial Bank | 111,847 |
| Total number of cards | 5,205,402 |