YOUR BANK
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
users as of 2025
in the country’s app ranking as of 2025
Lokals Team

Creative Director
Шаха Салиев

Strategist
Фарход Норбаев

Strategist
Евгения Карпович

Project manager
Татьяна Ситникова

Copywriter
Саид Назриллаев
Copywriter
Амалия Террениязова

Art Director
Фаррух Газиев

Art Director
Станислав Бабич

CG Specialist