Baku, Azerbaijan, September 19
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank has formed a separate team, is in the process of implementation of serious investments in digital services and systems in order to further digitalize the bank’s activities, the representative of the bank told Trend.
“Practically over the entirety of last year the bank has been preoccupied with a quite complicated process of integration following the purchase of the second largest bank Qazkom. Today, Halyk Bank has fully finished this process and is currently concentrating on the further technological development, including the processes of digitalization. One of the first projects of the bank will be the launch of online lending in the near future,” the representative said.
According to the representative, today the bank is concentrating on implementation of new development strategy, in accordance with which it is focusing its attention on orientation on clients, expansion of transactional banking opportunities, further development of digital services and processes, which increase the quality and technological effectiveness of services.
“Bank is systematically entering foreign markets by implementing its operations in Russia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and by using opportunities and prospects of Uzbek market, where a subsidiary of Halyk Bank, Tenge Ваnk has recently been established,” the official said.
Talking about the popularity of remote services offered by the bank, the representative noted that currently a number of physical entities using web banking of Halyk Bank has exceeded 3.8 million people, whereas a number of companies, which use web banking for legal entities exceeds 140,000 companies.
In the future, the bank is planning to develop and implement technologies, which are improving and simplifying the process of managing financial assets, i.e. technologies such as mobile financial services and appliances, biometric technologies and so on.
Halyk Bank is the largest universal commercial bank of Kazakhstan.
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