Aktif Tech

Aktif Bank Information Technologies Group, which had been conducting its technology investments and innovation efforts as an "On-Site R&D Center” until January 2022, was reformed into a standalone subsidiary named Aktif Tech with products and activities in the payment systems and ticketing technologies verticals. Having commenced its operations with a full staff at Dijitalpark Technopark as a fully owned subsidiary of Aktif Bank, Aktif Tech meets the needs of the financial technology ecosystem of its customers, its employees, and its parent group with userfriendly flows and new business models various product, infrastructure, and service lines. During 2023, Aktif Tech continued its mission to provide contemporary technologies and high-quality services to the Bank’s customers, business partners, and employees by integrating Aktif Bank Information Technologies Group into its personnel and enhancing its product and service range with several new fintech-oriented products. Aktif Tech made progress towards the goal of becoming an agile, creative, and human-focused technology center. It continued its projects in 2023, leveraging its planned technology investments and competent innovation initiatives. To increase total quality and adapt quickly to changing conditions in major projects, Aktif Tech gradually transitioned to agile project management by embracing current methodologies in software development processes. Outdated procedures were replanned according to the new methodology, and a software life cycle was designed accordingly. Efforts and tools necessary for efficient use were put into operation, and continuous improvement areas were analyzed to carry out continuous work in this context. To provide fast and quality products to the market, Aktif Tech aims to support its software development architecture with current technologies and advance version processes with Micro Service architecture. It is aimed to accelerate integration processes with APIs developed by different software teams and continue test automation studies starting from software development and continuing at the API level, including end-user tests. Software development quality and speed is poised to increase with the introduction of cloud systems and integrated developer operations processes. Aktif Tech’s forward-looking plans include transforming the banking system, adaptation of the workflow application to banking system, strengthening of infrastructure and performance of mobile banking application in line with digital banking objectives to increase customer acquisition and product gains, increasing the product and service range in payment systems, commencing software/technology/ infrastructure export activities outside the group and abroad, and establishing infrastructure for access to new credit segments parallel to the Bank’s credit disbursement objectives. Furthermore, Aktif Tech aims to continue supporting acquisition and sales targets of subsidiaries, transform the Passo app into a super app and providing infrastructure and application integration support, align the “Emergency Center” structure with banking systems support open banking services, and take utmost advantage of cloud technologies to the extent allowed by regulations.