PASHA_BANK_ANNUAL REPORT 2022

32 PASHA Bank 2022 Annual Report strong support Our bank continued to take steps in increasing its activities in investment banking. We continued Asset-backed Security issuance transactions at full speed which we started in 2020. We brought together a total of TL 1.2 billion of financial resources with our customers operating in agriculture and automotive industries from the beginning. Behind these issuances designed for our customers are a strong and multiple guarantee structure and an attractive return opportunity for investors. We will continue to provide support for the real sector in the following year by using capital market instruments. Despite the ongoing pandemic impacts in 2022, though at a decreasing trend, we closely monitored the digitalization process and digital transformation of the new period and realized technological infrastructural investments required. Our goal is to take a competitive role in developing global and local trends and maintain sustainability in secure and high quality technological infrastructural developments by continuing to develop new ideas to increase profitability, efficiency and interaction in the triangle of Turkey-Azerbaijan and Georgia Our bank continued its support for art this year as well as in prior years since its establishment and took part in another project in digital art which lately broke out. We were the main sponsor of the İstanbul Digital Art Festival organized for the second time at Fişekhane. At the festival curated by artificial intelligence for the first time in Turkey, we brought together technology and art and presented it to the art lovers. We continued our activities this year in the sustainability area. We keep on implementing corporate social responsibility projects and our waste management system which provides benefits for the environment. With each project we participate in we remind our sensitivity for the nature and environment to ourselves and our employees. We support green Message from the CEO We press on with our goal of “being the first bank which comes to mind in the region”. the first bank which comes to mind in the region