TCMA ANNUAL REPORT 2018

the KOFIA Chairman and Korean real estate investment trust CEOs in our country in July. During this visit, we facilitated the Korean finance professionals’ contacts with the institutions in our country. On 2 November 2018 in Bali, we have become a signatory of the Asia Securities Forum’s Declaration on Commitment to Sustainable Development Goals along with the leading capital market representatives of the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, we will be hosting the 2019 ASF General Assembly in Istanbul. Throughout the year, our Association organized various events to discuss the current topics on the agenda and to increase recognition of our sector by the public. Most of these events have become traditional events for the sector, and brought together experts from Turkey and from foreign countries. We Have Built on our Relations with the Media In 2018, we held press conferences participated by the members of the Association’s Board of Directors and Board of Auditors. We talked about our suggestions for developing the capital market, the Association’s projects, and our Members’ data for the first half of 2018 within the framework of the new term economy policies. We shared information about the current situation of the capital market, and the first 9 months’ data of 2018 of intermediary institutions and asset management companies. During 2018, 476 news articles about our Association were featured in the press, 256 on TV channels, and 5,063 on the Internet. In 2019, our conferences will be ongoing where we will be sharing information to enlighten the public via the media. We Have Organized the 3 rd TCMA Capital Markets Award Ceremony On 11 April 2018, we held the third edition of the TCMA Capital Markets Award Ceremony, which we launched in 2016 to contribute to the development and increased recognition of our sector. With this event that we have debuted three years ago, our goal is to increase the recognition of our sector on one hand, while strengthening the collaboration and solidarity within the sector on the other hand. In a bid to make the event more comprehensive, we added 24 different branches to our award categories this year, and we distributed awards to 36 institutions/individuals in 44 categories. This year, we have also added the “Capital Market Honorary Service Award” to recognize the doyens who have provided services in our sector, generated innovative and inspiring ideas in relation to the capital markets, and contributed to drive the capital market forward. We are proud to witness that our award ceremony, which We have completed the 3 rd Turkish Capital Markets Summit with the participation of 134 panelists and over 8 thousand attendees. office of the Committees’ members expired in 2018, and the members who will serve in the new term were designated by the Association’s Board of Directors from among the submissions. Client Disputes Arbitration Committee received 455 applications since its establishment to date, 267 of them directly and the remaining 188 through the CMB. 237 of these files have been decided. We Have Organized International Events to Promote our Sector As TCMA, we are also carrying out activities to promote our capital markets on the international arena and to raise awareness. In this context, we attended the 31 st Annual General Meeting of ICSA (International Council of Securities Associations) held in June in Taipei and hosted by the Intermediary Institutions Association of Taiwan. Founded in 1988 to serve as a bridge between national capital markets and to ensure information flow, ICSA has 19 members including the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan and Korea. A member of ICSA since 2006, our Association has been reelected to the ICSA Board of Directors representing the Europe Area at the latest meeting held. Within the scope of the ongoing relations between our Association and the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA), we hosted a delegation of 11 people consisting of Overview of 2018 18 TCMA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT