By Khac Phu Nguyen
Publication Date: 2026-09-15 20:06:00
International Business Machines IBM, the hybrid-cloud, mainframe and enterprise-AI provider, expanded its relationship with Turkey’s Kredi Kayıt Bürosu on Monday, pushing watsonx and IBM infrastructure deeper into a financial platform operating at enormous scale. IBM shares slipped approximately 0.4% to $248.07 Tuesday morning, as investors looked beyond another AI contract announcement and waited for stronger evidence that enterprise deployments can meaningfully lift the company’s overall growth rate.
KKB plans to deploy IBM data, mainframe and watsonx technologies as it modernizes infrastructure capable of handling more than 8.5 billion transactions annually. The project spans software-development acceleration, system monitoring, database management and API integration, putting IBM technology directly into a mission-critical financial workload. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency also reported the broader cooperation Tuesday. At 8.5 billion transactions a year, the platform works out to…
