Based on an awareness of the need for a balanced social structure under the severe economic conditions of the first years of the Republic in our country, Halkbank was founded in 1938 to transfer resources to tradesmen-artisans and small businesses and start capital accumulation with the aim of supporting small tradesmen and artisans and developing public banking, and established the concept of Public Banking in our country and provided credit services through Public Funds until 1950.