High-level executives of world's leading banks and companies, decision-makers, institutional finance executives, banking sector representatives and officials from regulatory bodies will meet at an international finance summit in Istanbul between September 28-30, 2010.

The 1st Istanbul Finance Summit will bring together worldwide-known names from the finance sector coming from different parts of the world such as North America, Europe, the Gulf region and Eastern Asia.

The annual summit, organized with the contributions of Germany's Financial Gates GmbH Group, will focus on the current situation in the world finance sector and economy, as well as expectations for the future.

German financial regulator BaFin's head Jochen Sanio, Mexican Central Bank Governor Augustine Carstens, President Ahmad Mohammed Ali Al-Madani of Islamic Development Bank and Citigroup's Chief Economist Williem Buiter will be among the participants of this year's summit.

Anadolu Agency is among the sponsors of the organization.

The target group of the organization is public authorities, banking administrations, private sector representatives, experts and academicians.

Numerous Turkish officials including State Minister & Deputy Premier Ali Babacan, Treasury Undersecretary Ibrahim Canakci, Deputy Undersecretary of State Planning Organization (DPT) Erhan Usta, head of Capital Markets Board of Turkey (SPK) Vedat Akgiray, Central Bank Governor Durmus Yilmaz, chairman of Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) Huseyin Erkan and Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency's (BDDK) chairman Tevfik Bilgin will also attend the summit.
 

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