Aslan Talpakov has been appointed deputy chairman of the management board of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan and elected member of the bank's management board. Talpakov joined the bank in July 2011 as director of its Corporate Lending Department. Previously Talpakov worked as a manager of the Corporate Department at JSC SB 'RBS Kazakhstan.

Earlier he held various positions at ABN AMRO BANK Kazakhstan. Talpakov will be in charge of small and medium enterprise (SME) business, as well as marketing and PR. He replaced Stanislav Kosobokov, who resigned this post on June 23, 2015.