Bank Asya reports losses of TL 5.8M in Q1


The nonconsolidated loss of Bank Asya in the first quarter of this year was TL 5.8 million ($2.2 million), according to the income statement the bank released on the Public Disclosure Platform. The bank had made a TL 40.81 million net profit in the same period of last year. Bank Asya's net loss by the end of 2014 was TL 813 million. While the total assets of the bank were TL 23.2 billion in the first quarter of 2014, this figure decreased to TL 11.97 billion in the same period of 2015.On May 29, Turkish banking regulators approved the decision to seize all of Bank Asya's shares due to the bank's failure to fulfill its obligations despite the measures taken by Turkey's banking watchdog, the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK). All shares of Bank Asya were transferred to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) after the bank's profits and capital base collapsed despite being placed under the scope of Article 70 of Turkey's banking law, which regulates the BDDK's intervention into troubled banks.