Aktif Bank moves to integrated reporting with first publication

What happened

Aktif Bank has issued its first integrated report, replacing the sustainability-report format it had used from 2020. The document uses the International Integrated Reporting Framework and presents financial performance alongside strategy, governance, risks, opportunities, and environmental and social effects.

The change matters because it puts the bank’s commercial and sustainability information in one disclosure. Sustainability and finance professionals reviewing the publication should assess its reported operational and social metrics together, rather than treating them as separate accounts.

According to Enerji Günlüğü, the report describes how the bank seeks to create value across short-, medium- and long-term horizons. It identifies investment in innovation and research and development, an expanding digital-banking customer base, and an API platform containing more than 1,000 APIs among the areas covered.

The report also sets out results from the Ekonomide Aktif Kadınlar programme. Aktif Bank says the initiative helped support the participation of more than 5,000 women in the financial system over 2022 to 2025.

Why it matters

For stakeholders, the report provides a consolidated view of how Aktif Bank connects financial development with governance, climate-related action and social impact. This format may make it easier to examine how the bank frames trade-offs, risks and outcomes across those areas.

Energy and emissions are among the operational measures highlighted. Aktif Bank reports that a 1.39 MW solar power plant has entered operation in Denizli. It also reports a 53% reduction in total greenhouse-gas emissions.

For electricity consumed by its headquarters, branches and subsidiaries, the bank says it used I-REC certificates to bring market-based Scope 2 emissions to zero. Readers should distinguish this market-based Scope 2 result from the reported reduction in total greenhouse-gas emissions when assessing the disclosure.

What’s next

The available material records outcomes from the women’s inclusion programme through 2025, but does not set out a future publication schedule or additional targets. Stakeholders can use the integrated report as the reference point for reviewing subsequent disclosures on the bank’s financial, social and environmental performance.