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Our story

Banking that earns trust the slow way.

Keensafe Global Bank was founded in 1998 in Istanbul as a private banking practice for family businesses. Today we are a full-service institution licensed in 14 markets, employing 12,400 people, and serving 4.2 million retail customers and 38,000 corporate clients.

By the numbers

A bank measured on the things customers care about

Net Promoter Score of +62, app store rating of 4.8/5 across both platforms, and a complaint-resolution time that has fallen every year since 2019.

1998Founded
14Countries
12,400Employees
+62Net Promoter Score
Leadership

People who answer for the decisions

Aylin Karahan

Group CEO

Joined 2019 from European retail banking. Previously CRO at a tier-1 EU institution.

Marcus Vintner

CFO

15 years in capital markets, including a stint as treasurer of a Nordic insurer.

Esra Demir

CTO

Leads the engineering organisation of 1,800 across Istanbul, Berlin and Lisbon.

Tomás Reyes

CISO

Built our SOC and led the ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II programmes.