Commercial Bank’s alliance bank in Turkey awarded exclusive Diners Club Credit Card franchise

Doha, Qatar: Commercial Bank, Qatar’s first private bank, and the exclusive provider of Diners Club Credit Cards in Qatar, is proud to announce that its alliance bank in Turkey, ABank, has been awarded the exclusive rights to issue Diners Club Credit Cards in Turkey. At a ceremonial event held in Qatar, Commercial Bank CEO Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi, President of Payment Services at Discover Financial Services Diane Offereins, and ABank CEO Meriç Uluşahin, along with respective members of the organisations’ executive teams, met to formalise the historic agreement.

 

Commercial Bank CEO Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi said: “Commercial Bank has a long and proud strategic relationship with Diners Club Credit Cards, offering them exclusively in Qatar for over 20 years. Diners Club Credit Cards allow Commercial Bank to offer a superior product, backed up by top quality service. We consider this agreement as significant towards expanding our business by providing our customers with a new product, opening new business opportunities and supporting business activities for all our customers. Commercial Bank always ensures to improve quality of service, adopting more professional standards and introducing innovative concepts that enrich our customers’ experience of banking and maintain our position as leaders for innovation and customer service.”

 

Commercial Bank became the majority shareholder in ABank in 2013.  ABank is the exclusive provider of Diners Club Credit Cards in the Turkish market, offering a range of new, distinctive, and best in class Credit Card products to Turkish consumers in addition to its existing range of consumer and commercial cards.

 

Eduardo Tobon, President of Diners Club International said: “Turkey is one of the major card markets in the EMEA region and an increasingly important one for our card members. Working with ABank, a Turkish subsidiary of Commercial Bank, will allow Diners Club to grow its presence in Turkey within the business traveler space, as well as meeting the needs of a well-established customer base and offer better support to multinational customers.”

 

Commercial Bank has been the exclusive provider of Diners Club Credit Cards in Qatar for over 20 years. Diners Club Credit Cards provide customers with a host of market leading benefits and offers including exclusive access to Diners Club lounges across Doha. In addition, Commercial Bank Credit Cardholders continue to enjoy the widest range of benefits, including 0% Buy Now Pay Later at over 200 outlets, exclusive offers on travel, dining and shopping in Qatar and overseas, complimentary access to over 500 executive airport lounges worldwide, complimentary travel insurance and much more.

 

Commercial Bank also offers a market leading reward points program, allowing reward points to be earned when using their Credit Card for retail purchases that can be redeemed against gift vouchers, free flights, hotels and charitable donations. With Commercial Bank Reward Points, customers can book flights to any destination, with any airline, with no blackout dates and no hidden charges or taxes through their first-to-market FlyMiles programme as well as redeem reward points against a wide variety of partners, which include electronics, fashion, jewellery, department stores, home furnishing, sports and leisure, spas and more, to suit their lifestyle needs.

 

If you are not already a Commercial Bank Credit Card customer, but want to apply, please visit www.cbq.qa .Terms & Conditions apply.