25 billion Turkish lira in GMV. 18.3 million users. 550 business partners. Hopi isn’t a loyalty program anymore—it’s a B2B2C platform that does loyalty, MarTech, AdTech, and FinTech simultaneously. 💳

This week on IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Selvane examine how Boyner Grup turned a department store loyalty program into a multi-merchant coalition serving 300+ partners, including its own competitors.

🎧 In this episode:

* Find out why Boyner’s 1998 credit card experiment shaped Hopi’s FinTech DNA two decades later 🏦.

* Learn how Paracik social sharing converted 1.6 friends per user into active shoppers 👥. The AdTech expansion that brought 100+ brands who never joined the loyalty program 📊.

* What happened when Hopi approved 50%+ of credit applications versus banks’ 30-35% rate 💰.

* Why serving your competitors is the only way platform economics work—and what department stores must unlearn 🔄.

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Hopi's Transformation: From Loyalty to FinTech Ecosystem