Disciplinary Committee

The Disciplinary Committee is responsible for determining situations which contravene the Human Resources Disciplinary Regulations and for implementing disciplinary sanctions as deemed appropriate. In determining situations which contravene the Disciplinary Regulation, the Manager of the Regulatory Compliance and Operations Department, as well as other KKB Department Executives, convene to evaluate the results of the investigation on the related issue.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee convenes for the purpose of sharing the activities of the Internal Audit, Regulatory Compliance and Operations, Internal Control and Risk Management Departments and the results of these activities with the Senior Management. Information on the results of audit activities conducted within the organization is provided to the participants, which include some members of the Board of Directors.

KKB Steering Committee

The KKB Steering Committee is responsible for the current status of the institution’s finances, assessing compatibility with the strategic objectives and evaluation of planned new products and services. The Committee also evaluates information from the related department executives regarding activities realized within the month which are deemed to be strategically important.

Weekly Product Evaluation Meeting

Weekly Product Evaluation Meetings are held to evaluate the strategic conformity of existing products, services, product usage, improvement recommendations and requests regarding products and requests for products, and to make decisions such as the data types to be used within the scope of the products and services, and the method of sharing. Important matters regarding the suppliers of new and existing products are also evaluated during these meetings.

Information Security Committee

The Information Security Committee aims to identify any weaknesses in information security, primarily changes in the operation of the information security function, as well as evaluating the need for resources and coordination to eliminate these weaknesses. The Committee’s responsibilities include informing the senior management of information security violations within the institution and global information security incidents.

Business & Information Systems Continuity Committee

The Business Continuity Committee convenes to determine crisis scenarios, prepare relevant action plans, review changes in the operation of the business continuity function and evaluate resource needs based on the mentioned scenarios. The Committee is responsible for providing information on the current status of business continuity risks, actions and practices.

Information Systems Strategy Committee

The Information Systems Committee convenes to evaluate the compatibility of the organization’s information systems strategies with its business objectives, the proper implementation of the information systems strategy plan and the need for revision. The duties of the committee include ensuring compliance of the investments with the information systems strategy plan and evaluation of the activities of the Information Systems Steering Committee.

Information Systems Steering Committee

The Information Systems Steering Committee is responsible for the prioritization of resource requirements in accordance with information technology strategies, the monitoring of critical information systems projects, evaluation of the compatibility of information systems architecture and critical information systems projects, monitoring of service levels related to information systems, preparation and submission of the annual Information Systems budget for approval, and planning of IT investments and assessing the impact of new investments on KKB risk profile and the resource requirements.

AI Management Committee

The duties of the Artificial Intelligence Management Committee are determining the artificial intelligence approach and strategies of the institution, evaluating the strategic suitability of AI projects, analyzing the effect of the institution on the existing or new ways of doing business in line with the determined AI strategies, determining the actions and approving artificial intelligence investments, projects and resources and determining the order of priority,  

Sustainability Committee

The Sustainability Committee is responsible for establishing the sustainability strategy and policies of the institution, following the national and international developments related to sustainability, reviewing and reorganizing the current strategy, policy and practices, determining the environmental, social and economic risks and impact dimensions of the organization’s operations, including climate change, and determining the carbon and water footprint, measuring, monitoring and reducing the footprint in line with the determined targets, directing the studies and developing projects for the integration and internalization of the sustainability culture into the corporate structure, following the organization’s roadmap and developments in sustainability-related practices and determining and auditing performance criteria accordingly.

Project Steering Committee

The Project Steering Committee is responsible for informing the senior management of the strategic conformity of projects, investment decisions regarding important information systems, requests to be added to the annual project plan, assessing the costs and priorities of projects, and evaluating the risks related to existing projects and potential risks.

Data Governance Committee

The Data Governance Committee is responsible for making decisions to ensure the quality and integrity of the data that KKB has provided, stored and shared. The Committee identifies the needs related to the data and assesses data validation rules and methods. The Data Governance Committee also evaluates the information architecture and reaches decisions on the compatibility of projects which may affect the information architecture.

Process Committee

The Process Committee convenes to assess the changes to be made in the functioning of the institutional processes, to eliminate gray areas as to which units should undertake the process activities; to determine and monitor the performance goals of the processes. Also, the Process Committee coordinates all optimization and automation efforts of the processes in terms of design and operation with senior management support.

Technology Architecture Committee

The Technology Architecture Committee is responsible for providing supporting information for the decision mechanism about the software (application) architecture, infrastructure architecture and data architecture that constitute the technology architecture of the institution, its objectives, structure, functioning, the systems it uses and the technologies used in the systems, and creating the alternative distribution channel architecture for products and services, and the evaluation of the compatibility of the decisions to be made in line with the project and portfolio management with the technology architecture, and the evaluation of the relevant capacity and needs.

Change Committee

The Change Committee is tasked with evaluating application and system changes’ impact on daily operations and their compliance with applicable laws. The Committee also controls the measures required to minimize the risks arising from changes.

Internal Audit Committee

The Internal Audit Committee convenes to evaluate the audit plan information, information connected to completed audits, information regarding past and incomplete actions and findings, requests to revise the action date with the audited unit and department managers and, if necessary, with the audited unit personnel.

Service Management Committee

The main responsibility of the Service Management Committee is to determine the scope, policy and objectives of the service management in accordance with the corporate strategy, to plan and follow-up the service management and raise awareness of meeting service requirements. The Committee is also responsible for regularly reviewing the activities and ensuring compliance with the laws to which the organization is subject, ensuring adequate resources for the conduct of service management activities and identifying and managing risks related to the service management.