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Borsa

17th November 2015
The Marmara Taksim, Istanbul

About The IFN Turkey Forum

The IFN Turkey Forum continues to grow from strength to strength. With the full support of financial regulators and the participation finance community, the Turkey Forum is viewed as the meeting place for dealmakers from Turkey, Asia and across Europe. With an exploding debt capital market and a rapidly developing Shariah compliant equity market the forum will bring together the industry’s leading arrangers and issuers to discuss the newest deals and trends impacting participation finance in Turkey.

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Forum Keynotes

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Murat Cetinkaya
Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Turkey

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Tevfik Kinik
Executive Vice Chairman, Capital Markets Board of Turkey

Forum Agenda

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Motion:

Can Participation Finance Play a Meaningful Role in Achieving Vision 2023?

09:15 – 09:30

Keynote Address

Himmet Karadag, Chairman, Borsa Istanbul

09:30 – 10:15

Innovation as the Key to Turkey’s Participation Finance Growth

As the global financial system adopts technological and product innovation to overcome disruptions set by fintech companies, how is participation finance adjusting to embrace this trend? We ask banking, fund management and debt capital markets luminaries to discuss innovation in each of these sectors.

Moderator:

Sera Somay, Partner, Paksoy

Panelists:

Ali Tuglu, Assistant General Manager, Albaraka Turk
Emre Besli, Partner and Risk Advisory Leader, EY Turkey
Luis Maldonado, Professor, IE Business School, Spain
Tayfun Ozkan, CEO, KT Asset Management

10:15 – 10:50

In Conversation with Turkish Regulators

Moderator:

Lauren McAughtry, Group Managing Editor, REDmoney Group

Panelists:

Ahmet Bicer, Executive Director, Head of Banking and Financial Institutions Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Aysegul Eksit, Executive Vice-Chair, Capital Markets Board of Turkey
Raci Kaya, Deputy Undersecretary, Undersecretariat of Turkish Treasury

10:50 – 11:20

Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:50

Capital-Raising Roundtable: Bottlenecks, Strategies and Opportunities

Moderator:

Hulusi Horozoglu, Assistant General Manager, Managing Director, Head of Wholesale Banking, HSBC Turkey

Panelists:

Ahmed Al Qassim, CEO, Emirates NBD Capital, the UAE
Rizwan Kanji, Partner, King & Spalding, the UAE
Sait Eryilmaz, Senior Associate, Yegin Ciftci Attorney Partnership
Tanweer Bukhari, Former Head of Investment Banking Advisory, CIMB Middle East

11:50 – 12:10

An Audience with HSBC

Interviewer: Lauren McAughtry, Group Managing Editor, REDmoney Group
Interviewee: Mohammed Dawood, Managing Director, Global Sukuk Financing, HSBC

12:10 – 12:40

Getting Entrepreneurial Startups on Investors’ Radar

Moderator:

Rachid Ouaich, Founder and Managing Director, Eethiq Advisors, Luxembourg

Panelists:

Adem Yakisirer, Private Market Specialist, Borsa Istanbul
Cankut Durgun, Founding Partner, Aslanoba Capital
Kerim Ture, Founder, Modanisa

12:40 – 12:50

DDCap ETHOS Launch

Henry Desch, Senior Manager, Business Development, DDCAP, the UK

12:50 – 13:50

Can Participation Finance Play a Meaningful Role in Achieving Vision 2023?

It’s 2023, we ask participation finance luminaries where they see their respective businesses – what products are they offering? What has become obsolete?
What strategies were employed to get here and most importantly has the participation finance industry collectively contributed to Turkey’s development goals? Or was too much faith placed on the industry as a key enabler to Vision 2023?

Moderator:

Jawad Ali, Managing Partner, Middle East Offices, King & Spalding, the UAE

Panelists:

Dr Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu, Country Representative, Turkey, Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)
Avsar R Sungurlu, General Manager, BPY Asset Management
Fehmi Tutulmaz, Head of Financial Institutions and Investment Banking, Ziraat Participation Bank
Metin Tekeci, Head/General Manager, Turkiye Finans, Bahrain
Dr Serdar Sumer, CEO and Board Member, Aktif Bank

13:50 – 15:00

Luncheon

15:00

End of Forum

15:00 – 17:30

The Turkey Dialogue

A high-level closed-door, invite-only, roundtable discussion comprising senior regulators and market leaders representing the participation finance industry in Turkey. A select group of international representatives will also be invited. This closed-door meeting will concentrate exclusively on Turkey’s bid to become a world-class financial center, with a focus on participation finance issues.

Moderator:

Lauren McAughtry, Group Managing Editor, REDmoney Group

Panelists:

Ahmet Bicer, Executive Director, Head of Banking and Financial Institutions Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Avsar R Sungurlu, General Manager, BPY Asset Management
Ayse Akkin, Managing Director, Debt Finance and Advisory, UNLU & Co
Eda Tanyel, Group Manager of Structured Finance, HSBC Turkey
Eser Sagar, Deputy Head of Corporate Finance Department, Capital Markets Board of Turkey
Hakan Audogan, EVP-Financial Coordination and HR, Ziraat Participation Bank
Hakan Uzun, Executive Vice-President, Treasury, Turkiye Finans
Raci Kaya, Deputy Undersecretary, Turkish Treasury
Rizwan Kanji, Partner, King & Spalding, the UAE
Saleh Jelassi, Resident Representative, IDB Group, Country Gateway Office, Turkey
Selim Elhadef, Partner and Country Advisory Leader, EY Turkey
Sera Somay, Partner, Paksoy
Dr Serdar Sumer, CEO and Board Member, Aktif Bank
Tayfun Ozkan, CEO, KT Asset Management
Tanweer Bukhari, Former Head of Investment Banking Advisory, CIMB Middle East

Forum Speakers

  • Ahmet Kanyilmaz, Executive Board Member, Doga Insurance
  • Dr Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu, Country Representative- Turkey, Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)
  • Arsalaan Ahmed, Head of Capital Financing, Barwa Bank
  • Avsar R Sungurlu, General Manager, BPY Asset Management
  • Ayse Akkin, Managing Director, Debt Finance and Advisory, UNLU & Co
  • Cassim Docrat, Director, DDCAP Group, UAE
  • Elif Yener, Chief Financial Officer, Zorlu Enerji
  • Emad Al Monayea, Board Director and CEO, Kuwait Finance House Investment
  • Dr Feyzullah Egriboyun, Executive Vice President- Treasury, Financial Institutions, Investor Relations, Funding Development, Bank Asya
  • Giorgio Medda, Chief Executive Officer, Azimut Portfoy Yonetimi
  • Hamed Afzal, Senior Associate, King & Spalding, Middle East
  • Hulusi Horozoglu, Assistant General Manager, Head of Banking and Capital Financing, HSBC Turkey
  • Jawad Ali, Managing Partner, Middle East Offices, King & Spalding
  • Mehmet Emin, Chairman, ADFIMI
  • ‎Metin Tekeci, Head/General Manager, Turkiye Finans, Bahrain
  • Dr Mohamed Damak, Director, Global Head of Islamic Finance, Standard & Poor's
  • Mohammed Dawood, Managing Director, Global Head of Sukuk Financing, HSBC
  • Molly Jaspal, Director, Finance Accreditation Agency
  • Mufit Arapoglu, Partner and Head of Capital Markets Practice, Balcioglu Selcuk Akman Keki
  • Murat Bugan, Head of Financial Institutions, Development Bank of Turkey
  • Murat Cetinkaya, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Turkey
  • Mustafa Dereci, Product Development Group Manager, Kuveyt Turk
  • Dr Mustafa Kemal Yilmaz, Executive Vice President, Borsa Istanbul
  • Osman Arslan, Chief Executive Officer, Ziraat Participation Bank
  • Osman Celik, Chief Executive Officer, Turkiye Finans & President, Participation Banks Association of Turkey (TKBB)
  • Richard Thomas, Senior Advisor to the Board & Chief Representative, Malaysia, Gatehouse Bank
  • Safak Herdem, Managing Partner, Herdem Attorneys at Law
  • Sera Somay, Partner, Paksoy
  • Dr Serdar Sumer, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Aktif Bank
  • Shauaib Mirza, Senior Associate, Clifford Chance
  • Tanweer Bukhari, Head of Investment Banking Advisory, CIMB Islamic
  • Tayfun Ozkan, Chief Executive Officer, KT Asset Management
  • Tevfik Kinik, Executive Vice Chairman, Capital Markets Board of Turkey
  • Dr Zamir Iqbal, Head, World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Center, Istanbul
  • Zanariah Zahari, Head, Marketing & Business Development, IBFIM

Advisory Board

  • Ashar Nazim, Partner, Financial Services, Advisory & Head of Global Islamic Banking Center, EY
  • Avsar R Sungurlu, General Manager, BPY Asset Management
  • Cenk Karacaoglu, Head of Syndications, Barwa Bank
  • Giorgio Medda, Chief Executive Officer, Azimut Portofoy Yonetimi
  • Hulusi Horozoglu, Assistant General Manager, Head of Banking and Capital Financing, HSBC Turkey
  • Nusret Cetin, Partner, LBF Partners
  • Dr Serdar Sumer, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Aktif Bank
  • Selim Elhadef, Partner & Country Advisory Leader, EY Turkey
  • Sera Somay, Partner, Paksoy
  • Tanweer Bukhari, Head of Investment Banking Advisory, CIMB Islamic

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