The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic’s Talas Regional Department, together with representatives of OJSC Eldik Bank, held a visiting financial literacy lecture for Talas State University students on 17 February 2026 under its 2026 regional financial literacy plan and a presidential decree recognising Eldik Bank as the successor of the culture of savings, covering the importance of saving, ways to preserve and increase savings, personal money management, the structure of family income and expenses, and types of financial fraud and their consequences.