TSPB ANNUAL REPORT 2017

17 th Ordinary General Meeting The 17 th Ordinary General Meeting was held on 9 June 2017 with the participation of Nurettin Canikli, Deputy Prime Minister at the time. Following the opening speech delivered by TCMA Chairperson İlhami Koç, Nurettin Canikli, Deputy Prime Minister at the time, Vahdettin Ertaş, Ph.D., CMB Chairman at the time, and Himmet Karadağ, Chairman of the Board of Borsa İstanbul each gave a speech. In the meeting, the future of capital markets and their role in international platforms were discussed, while noting that they will keep flourishing in the coming period. World Financial Planning Day and World Investor Week Through a co-organized panel, the Association and the Financial Planning Association carried two global events to our Country, namely the World Investor Week and the World Financial Planning Day. Within this scope, the Role of Financial Planning in Investor Protection Seminar was held on 4 October 2017. The panel addressed financial planning, an emerging profession in Turkey, from the angles of individual financial management, investment advisory and investor protection. The participants, constituted by representatives from banks, intermediary institutions, asset management companies, private pension companies and other financial institutions, had the opportunity to thoroughly discuss the details of the financial planning profession. 2 nd Turkish Capital Markets Summit Organized for the second time in 2017 by our Association, the Turkish Capital Markets Summit took place in Levent, İstanbul on 14 & 15 November 2017. With its theme set as “Growth for our Future” inspired by Turkey’s 2023 Vision, the Summit covered 24 panel sessions and 25 training programs in 24 different topics ranging from startup financing to public offerings, from securitization and Islamic financial products to infrastructure financing, from industry 4.0 to digital currencies. The two-day summit was attended by a large crowd of 5,000 people who were engaged in the capital markets in particular, as well as in financial services and various other sectors. Among the notable names that took part in the Summit were Mehmet Şimşek, Deputy Prime Minister, Vahdettin Ertaş, Ph.D., CMB Chairman at the time, Osman Dereli, Head of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board, Himmet Karadağ, Chairman of the Board of Borsa İstanbul, Prof. James Robinson, worldwide renowned author and economist, Chris Skinner, author, Ayhan Köse, Ph.D., Director of the World Bank Group’s Development Prospects Group, and Mahfi Eğilmez, Ph.D., former Undersecretary of Turkish Treasury. 122 national and 27 foreign speakers participated in the panels that lasted for two days within the frame of the Summit, the main sponsor of which was Borsa İstanbul. There were more than 100 people from abroad among the Summit’s attendants. Mehmet Şimşek, Deputy Prime Minister, took part in CNN Türk’s live broadcast that took place on the second day 17 th Ordinary General Meeting World Financial Planning Day and World Investor Week 35 TCMA 2017 Annual Report