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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Akbank is
Turkey-based bank and was founded in Adana, Turkey on January 1948,
originally to provide financing for the cotton producers in the Çukurova
region. Growing and developing over time, the Bank opened its first
branch in Istanbul in the district of Sirkeci on July 14, 1950, moving
its Headquarters to Istanbul in 1954. Rapidly increasing the number of
its branches, Akbank automated all banking operations in 1963. Akbank
established Ak Securities in 1996, Ak Investment Fund in 1998, Ak Asset
Management Company and its Private Banking Department in 2000.