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We made a new player feel local to the country

Client
TBC Bank
Category
Ad Campaigns
Market
Uzbekistan
Lokals product
Creative Platform, Full Integrated Campaign
Scale
1 country — Uzbekistan, 12 cities of presence
Year
2022-2025

01 / HOW IT LOOKED

Gallery of materials

02 / CHALLENGE

The business problem the client came with

Bring the Georgian neobank TBC Bank into the undisputed leaders of Uzbekistan’s fintech market. Our overarching goal throughout the partnership was to make a foreign brand feel “local” to the audience, while driving systematic growth across all key business, marketing and strategic indicators.

Business pain:

  • Overcome the audience’s natural distrust toward a new foreign player in such a conservative category as finance.
  • Stand apart from established traditional banks with long histories and aggressive local neobanks.
  • Find the right balance between the status of an advanced digital product and clear, people-first communication without stereotypes.

03 / SOLUTION

The approach we proposed

We focused on deep and sincere localization. Instead of glossy advertising clichés, we integrated the real, modern cultural code of Uzbekistan into every level of the brand: from product solutions to high-reach campaigns. Together with the brand team, we built TBC’s positioning as a high-tech yet warm “modern Uzbek bank” people can trust.

04 / METRICS & RESULTS

Key metrics and KPIs

19 mln+

users as of 2025

№6

in the country’s app ranking as of 2025

Lokals Team

Шаха Салиев

Creative Director

Шаха Салиев

Фарход Норбаев

Strategist

Фарход Норбаев

Евгения Карпович

Strategist

Евгения Карпович

Татьяна Ситникова

Project manager

Татьяна Ситникова

Саид Назриллаев

Copywriter

Саид Назриллаев

АТ

Copywriter

Амалия Террениязова

Фаррух Газиев

Art Director

Фаррух Газиев

Станислав Бабич

Art Director

Станислав Бабич

Андрей Корниенко

CG Specialist

Андрей Корниенко

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