Customer experience has always been one of the main pillars of Garanti BBVA’s strategy. Garanti BBVA strongly believes that companies delivering compelling experience are and will become the most successful ones in their industries. Customer experience is even more important in today’s hyper changing environment accelerated by technology. Boundaries between industries have already blurred, and digital business models create the new norms for all business areas. Solutions that delight customers easily become the standard not for a specific category but for all. Therefore Garanti BBVA regards customer experience as the most important element for strengthening its competitiveness and differentiating it in its industry.
Garanti BBVA has a solid and long-run strategy built on a combination of technology and human factors, which are the key determinants of our age. The Bank executes its customer experience strategy with the aim of making customers’ lives easier, looking after their financial well-being, helping them make informed financial decisions, advising them to grow their businesses in a sustainable manner, and finally, bringing financial services to everyone.
Customers’ needs and expectations are continuously evolving and reshaping in line with technological advancements. But common ground stays the same: they want to experience shortened and frictionless journeys saving their time, smarter solutions supporting their well-being and personal connection which they enjoy. This understanding shapes all of Garanti BBVA’s customer experience management efforts. The Bank wants its customers to be happy for having chosen to work with it. Building a good customer experience is one of the top strategic priorities and indispensable passions for Garanti BBVA’s senior management as well. The Customer Committee established for this purpose convenes under the chairmanship of the CEO to discuss customer experience topics. The Committee defines the Bank’s customer experience strategies and it is also responsible for realizing and ensuring continuous effort aimed at enhancing experience at every touch point and improving performance.
In 2019, Garanti BBVA continued to regularly receive feedbacks from customers for understanding the status of current customer experience and generating customer insight. Based on these feedbacks, the Bank designed 40 new projects to build on its products and services.
Helping its customers maintain their financial health is a key topic that Garanti BBVA puts emphasis on, and works to constantly improve through new ideas, projects and initiatives. Facilitating access to financial services through all its channels, Garanti BBVA ensures that its customers are informed about their financial positions, and have full control over their finances. The Bank offers solutions to improve their financial well-being, by providing information about savings to customers with the potential to save up, and about loan products to customers needing loan products to better manage their cash flows, as the case may be.
With its responsible banking approach, Garanti BBVA shares advantages and possible risks of products and services. Hence, Garanti BBVA communicates with its customers transparently in all sales and marketing activities, and provides all the information they need in a clear and easy to understand way. The Bank offers feasible solutions and seeks to build long-term and sustainable relations that are built on trust.
Garanti BBVA has a variety of goals: besides producing solutions for their financial needs, the Bank aims to support the growth and resilience of SMEs, women entrepreneurs and startups, who are key to sustainable development of the economy, and to help them improve their environmental, social and ethical performance.
Through Garanti BBVA Partners Acceleration Program, the Bank helps flourish the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Turkey, and aims to support and accelerate early startups and initiatives with the potential to attract investment and grow.
The Bank facilitates women entrepreneurs’ access to financing, encourages them to realize their full potentials through Turkey’s Woman Entrepreneur Competition and executes free-of-charge educational collaborations to ensure sustainability such as the Women Entrepreneurs Executive School. Through Women Entrepreneurs Meetings, the Bank targets to help women
entrepreneurs build new collaborations and penetrate new markets through experience and information sharing that they need.
The objectives of Garanti BBVA also include provision of innovative solutions and advices to customers to grow their businesses sustainably. The Bank provides its stakeholders such as its customers and non-governmental organizations with information about the most current topics related to sustainable business models such as innovative environmental,
social and governance practices in Turkey, governance models, green financing options, risks stemming from digitalization, new trends in non-financial reporting, transparent reporting, and environmental risk perception in the insurance industry.
By focusing on customer experience, Garanti BBVA is actively contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.