Who owns Akbank?
Akbank is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Sabancı Holding (Turkey, BIST: SAHOL) holds a 40.7% stake.[1] Sabancı Holding holds 40.7% of Akbank; the annual report puts 53.7% in free float and 5.6% with others.
Evidence: Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025, Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş. (40.7% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇹🇷 Turkey, Istanbul
- Origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Founded
- 1948
- Category
- Finance & insurance › Banks › Retail & commercial banks
- Parent ticker
- BIST: SAHOL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Akbank
Akbank is the bank Sabancı founded in 1948, which the holding calls its core banking franchise and the anchor of its Banking and Financial Services unit. Its 2025 report credits it with 15.2 million active customers, an arts centre, Akbank Sanat, with a 32-year history, and a stated aim of phasing out coal financing by 2040. Sabancı holds 40.7% of the listed bank.
Ownership timeline of Akbank
Where Akbank sits in Sabancı Holding
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Bulutistan (75.5%)
- Carrefoursa (57.1%)
- Çimsa (54.5%)
- Enerjisa Üretim (50%)
- Teknosa (50%)
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See the full Sabancı Holding brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding controls 6 brands on Brandtree.
- Bulutistan
- Carrefoursa
- Çimsa (1972)
- Enerjisa Üretim
- Teknosa (2000)
Other brands in retail & commercial banks, and who owns them
The 18 brands in retail & commercial banks on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Grupo Cibest, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Banco Agrícola | Grupo Cibest | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| Banco de Crédito del Perú | Credicorp | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Banco Macro | Banco Macro | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Banco Galicia | Grupo Galicia | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Banco Supervielle | Grupo Supervielle | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Hang Seng Bank | HSBC | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Interbank | IFS | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| MUFG Bank | MUFG | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Sabancı Holding
Sabancı Holding is a publicly listed company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1967.
Sabancı Holding is the investment holding company of the Sabancı family, which the 2025 integrated annual report says jointly controls it as majority shareholder while 53.2% of its shares are publicly traded. It traces the group to 1925, when Hacı Ömer Sabancı began trading cotton in Adana, and dates the holding itself to 1967 and its Borsa Istanbul listing to 8 July 1997. Its portfolio now spans banking and insurance, electricity generation, cement, retail and cloud services, much of it held jointly with foreign partners such as Ageas, E.ON, Heidelberg Materials and Carrefour.
Sabancı Holding: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇹🇷 Akbank and other Turkish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 94 brands that began in Turkey. 11 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Akbank is not one of them.
- AJet — Turkish Airlines 🇹🇷
- Actisoft — BİM 🇹🇷
- Albeni — Ülker Bisküvi 🇹🇷
- Alpin — Agthia 🇦🇪
- Anadolu Etap — Coca-Cola İçecek 🇹🇷
- Aras Kargo — Austrian Post 🇦🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Akbank?
No single company recorded here owns Akbank outright. Sabancı Holding holds a 40.7% stake.
Does Sabancı Holding control Akbank?
Not on the shareholding alone: a 40.7% holding is not a majority. Sabancı Holding holds 40.7% of Akbank; the annual report puts 53.7% in free float and 5.6% with others.
Where did Akbank come from?
Akbank originated in Turkey in 1948.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sabancı Holding Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş., Annual report; retrieved 19 October 2026.
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