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Hakan Aran

Chief Executive Officer (General Manager) and Member of the Board, Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.

Search every verified Hakan Aran interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Hakan Aran, General Manager and board member of Türkiye İş Bankası, has been active in public appearances discussing the bank's strategy, economic conditions, and technology initiatives. In 2026 interviews, he addressed inflation-fighting efforts, stating that year-end inflation expectations had moved to the 27-28 percent band and that normalization could occur by May 2026, with credit growth restrictions possibly lifted within the year. He also spoke about the bank's focus on strengthening its equity capital and regaining its position as Turkey's largest private bank by equity size, while noting challenges such as rising non-performing loan inflows and the burden of tight monetary policy on bank balance sheets. Aran has also highlighted the bank's ventures beyond traditional banking. He discussed a strategic partnership transferring 80% of Bayındır Health Group hospitals to Acıbadem, with the bank retaining a 20% stake and board representation. In health technology, he described a collaboration with Harvard University and Professor Gökhan Otamışlıgil to establish a company called Enila, aimed at preventing sudden deaths through early detection of cellular changes, a mission he said originated from former general manager Adnan Bali. He has also promoted the bank's entrepreneurship programs, including Workup, which he said has received over 15,000 startup applications and graduated 108 ventures, and emphasized the importance of eliminating Turkey's external technological dependence through education and long-term investment in science.

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“The Ministry of Industry and Technology has expressed 260 focus areas, 284 strategic products, and an industrial transformation program where the added value within Turkey will be increased, from the national technology initiative, from the defense industry to medium-high and high value-added products, where Turkey's exports have reached 400 billion dollars but more than half of that 400 billion dollars in exports co”

“We are running an inflation-fighting program. In this program, we are dealing with problems caused by many factors beyond our control that delay the program from reaching its target in the desired time. In the meantime, we are spending more energy than we thought and spending more time than we thought. In such a conjuncture, I see that year-end inflation expectations have come to the 27-28 percent band. I look at tod”

“Bankacılık çok ciddi bir iştir. Bankacılık dediğiniz şey kredi vermek, ana iş ve risk yönetimidir. Girişimcilik ise risk almaktır. Dolayısıyla bu söylediğim şeylerle, bu riskli işlerle bankacılık çok yan yana gitmiyor. Ama yan yana giderse de aslında çok da güzel gittiğini ben ifade edeyim. İş Bankası'nın öz kaynaklarının %60'ı şimdi bu tür işlerden gelmeye, karının da yaklaşık %70'i bu tarz işlerden gelmeye başladı.”

“The way to think about it is that up until now our data center business has been almost entirely GPUs. Vera is our CPU, and you know what's really exciting is that Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed, and that's huge for the company because for the first time we have a second engine of that sca”

“In the high inflationary environment specific to our country that we are passing through, the monetary policy we follow affects every sector. With interest rates around 50% against inflation around 22%, a gap of 28 points has emerged. An operating capital deficit is starting to form to cover this gap. So, within the constraints that the current policy allows, we are doing our best to support this as well. We need to ”

“Tourism is among the strategic sectors we give high priority to. But as Türkiye İş Bankası, we don't just attach strategic importance to the tourism sector. According to the economic impact study we received information from, the travel and tourism sector accounts for 10.3% of global GDP. We have been following our investments in the tourism sector for about the last 3 years, and we have provided loans not only to ou”

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