Türkiye · Financial institution
Kuveyt Turk Katilim Bankasi A.S.
Legal name in the LEI recordKUVEYT TÜRK KATILIM BANKASI ANONİM ŞİRKETİ
Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası A.Ş. is a participation bank. It operates on interest-free banking principles and is a joint-stock company headquartered in Istanbul. Kuwait Finance House holds 57.81% of its capital and the Directorate General of Foundations holds 24.49%. It provides retail, SME, corporate, treasury and international banking services in Türkiye and has a branch in Bahrain. It was founded in 1989 as Kuveyt Türk Evkaf Finans Kurumu A.Ş. and took its current name in 2006.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- KTEFTRISXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under KTEFTRIS directly.
- Swift GPI
- Live member
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 1996-03-02
- Last updated
- 2024-10-12
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
57.81% Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.)
Institution type
Islamic bank
Trades as Kuveyt Türk
- Ownership
- Kuwait Finance House holds 57.81%, the Directorate General of Foundations 24.49%, the Islamic Development Bank 8.36%, Wafra International Investment Company 8.36% and other shareholders 0.98%.
- Direct parent
- Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.), Kuwait 57.81%
- Major shareholders
- Kuwait Finance House 57.81%
Directorate General of Foundations (Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü) 24.49%
Islamic Development Bank 8.36%
Wafra International Investment Company 8.36% - Head office
- Büyükdere Cad. No:129/1, Esentepe, Şişli, 34394 Istanbul, Türkiye
- Company register
- Trade Registry Number 250489
- Former name
- Kuveyt Türk Evkaf Finans Kurumu A.Ş.
Business lines
The bank offers participation (interest-free) finance products, including gold banking, sukuk issuance, trade finance and treasury services for correspondent banks.
Online
- Websites & references
- kuveytturk.com.tr ↗
- Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗
Sources · 11 pages consulted
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/investor-relations/corporate-information/members-of-the-board-of-directors
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/investor-relations/corporate-information/partnership-structure
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/investor-relations/corporate-information/trade-registry-information
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/international/compliance
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/about-us/about-kuveyt-turk/news/kuveyt-turks-consolidated-total-assets-reached-try-159
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/personal/paymentsandservices/other-services/foreign-currency-transfer-swift
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/international/products-and-services/correspondent-banking-and-trade-finance-services
- kuveytturk.com.tr/en/international
- kuveytturk.com.tr/medium/2026-kurumsal-yonetim-derecelendirme-raporu-3794.pdf
- fintechtime.com/2026/08/kuveyt-turkun-konsolide-aktif-buyuklugu-2026nin-ikinci-ceyreginde-160-trilyon-tly
- aa.com.tr/tr/ekonomi/rekabet-kurulu-bankacilik-sigortacilik-ve-bilisim-sektorlerindeki-26-sirkete-s
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
-
Ufuk Uyan
Board Member and CEO
- Chair
-
Hamad A H D Almarzouq
Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Chief financial officer
-
Ahmet Karaca
Executive Vice President, Financial Affairs (Chief Financial Officer)
- Executive
- Hüseyin Cevdet Yılmaz Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
- Executive
-
Aslan Demir
Executive Vice President, Treasury and International Banking
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Türkiye
- Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) Prudential supervisorConduct
- Türkiye
- Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye Central bank
Recent events 1 enforcement or investigation item
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Investigation
The Turkish Competition Board opened an investigation into 26 firms, including the bank, over suspected no-poach agreements and labour-market information exchange.
aa.com.tr ↗ -
Leadership
The bank reassigned executive vice presidents. Aslan Demir took over treasury and international banking and Ahmet Albayrak took over corporate and commercial banking.
kuveytturk.com.tr ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- KTEFTRISXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- KTEFBank
- TRCountry · Türkiye
- ISLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300TB3JMG64GK6X59
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Türkiye · Europe & Central Asia
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.) · Kuwait2549007KX0N057S9BC98 ↗
The Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.) group has 5 institutions in the directory, in 5 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Kt Bank AG, Kuwait Finance House Bank- Egypt, Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad, Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P..
See the Kuwait Finance House (K.S.C.P.) group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- BUYUKDERE CAD. 129 ESENTEPE ISTANBUL 34394 TURKIYE
- Operational address
- BUYUKDERE CAD. 129 ESENTEPE ISTANBUL 34394 ISTANBUL TURKIYE
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>KTEFTRISXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300TB3JMG64GK6X59</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>KTEFTRISXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300TB3JMG64GK6X59</LEI>
<Nm>KUVEYT TURK KATILIM BANKASI A.S.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>ISTANBUL</TwnNm>
<Ctry>TR</Ctry>
<AdrLine>BUYUKDERE CAD. 129 ESENTEPE ISTANBUL 34394 TURKIYE</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Logo: kuveytturk.com.tr (official website) · original; Ufuk Uyan: kuveytturk.com.tr (official website) · original; Hamad A H D Almarzouq: kuveytturk.com.tr (official website) · original; Ahmet Karaca: kuveytturk.com.tr (official website) · original; Aslan Demir: kuveytturk.com.tr (official website) · original.
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