The British Consulate General Istanbul is organising the Turkey-UK Partnership in Financial Services conference on 18-19 February 2016 at the Raffles Hotel Istanbul to highlight the potential for Turkey and the UK to work together in areas such as Participatory Finance, Insurance, Pensions and Asset Management and set the ground for a bigger partnership on Financial Services.

Speakers include: H.E Richard Moore, British Ambassador to Turkey

H.E. Abdurrahman Bilgic, Turkish Ambassador to the UK Harriet Baldwin MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury

Taskin Temiz, Deputy Undersecretary, Undersecretariat of Treasury of Republic of Turkey Tevfik Kinik, Vice Chairman, Capital Markets Board of Turkey

Tuncay Dinc, General Manager, Borsa Istanbul John Nelson, Chairman, Lloyds of London

Stella Cox, Chair, Islamic Finance Market Advisory Group, TheCityUK Muammer Cakir, Head of Derivatives Market - VIOP, Borsa Istanbul

Professor Mehmet Asutay, Islamic Political Economy & Finance, Durham University To register please visit: http://www.turkey-ukpartnership.org

Turkey-UK Partnership in Financial Services is a UK Government initiative that focuses on exploring ways for Turkey and UK to cooperate on Financial Services with a particular focus on Participatory Finance, Insurance, Pensions and Asset Management.

Conference Agenda DRAFT AGENDA DAY 1: 18 FEBRUARY

MAXIMISING OPPORTUNITIES IN INSURANCE, PENSIONS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT

09:00-09:30 Registration and coffee

09:30-09:35 Welcome remarks: H.E. Richard Moore, British Ambassador to Turkey

09:35-09:50 Opening speech: Mehmet Simsek, Deputy Prime Minister (TBC)

09:50:10:05 Keynote speech: H.E. Abdurrahman Bilgic, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the UK

10:05-10:20 Keynote speech: John Nelson, Chairman, Lloyd’s of London

10:20-11:00 Presentation: The Future of Capital Markets in Turkey: Unlocking the Potential, Umurcan Gago, PwC

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break

11.20-12:00 Presentation: Insurance and Private Pensions in Turkey: Creating Long Term Value, Raymond Timmer, KPMG Turkey

12:00-13:00

Panel 1: The Turkish Insurance Sector: Changing Market Dynamics Moderator: Talat Yesiloglu, Editor-in Chief, Ekonomist

Panellists: Gokhan Karasu, General Manager, Insurance, Turkish Treasury (TBC)

Vincent Vandendael, Director, Middle East & Africa, Lloyds of London

Koray Erdogan, General Manager, Ray Sigorta

Ramazan Ulger, Chairman of Insurance Association of Turkey

Alexander Milne, Insurance Sector Specialist, UK Trade and Investment

13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00-14:40 Presentation: Asset Management Industry in Turkey: Maximising Investment Tools

Paulius Kuncinas, Oxford Business Group

14:40-15:40

Panel 2: Asset Management as the Driving Force of Capital Markets Moderator: Dr. Robert Barnes, Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange Group

Panellists: Richard Thomas, Chief Representative, Gatehouse Bank Malaysia

Tankut Taner Celik, General Manager, ING Portfoy

Didem Gordon, CEO, Ashmore

Esra Ada Vural, Head of Corporate Investment Department, Capital Markets Board of Turkey

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:10 Video address by Sir Roger Gifford, Former Lord Mayor of the City of London

16:10-17:20

Panel 3: Istanbul as a Regional Risk Management Platform

Scene setter presentation by Muammer Cakir, Head, Derivatives Market – VIOP, Borsa Istanbul

Moderator: Artunc Kocabalkan, Chairman, Istanbul Finance Centre Initiative

Panellists: Dr. Robert Barnes, Chair, TheCityUK Turkey Advisory Group

Muammer Cakir, Head, Derivatives Market – VIOP, Borsa Istanbul

Sefa Cavdaroglu, Chief, Financial Markets and Istanbul Financial Centre Department, Ministry of Development

17:20-17:30 Closing remarks: H.E. Richard Moore, British Ambassador to Turkey

17:30-19:30 Networking Reception

DRAFT AGENDA DAY 2: 19 FEBRUARY

PARTICIPATORY FINANCE IN TURKEY: EMERGENCE OF A REGIONAL LEADER

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:15 Welcome remarks: H.E. Richard Moore, British Ambassador to Turkey

09:15-09:30 Keynote speech: Tuncay Dinc, Chairman, Borsa Istanbul

09:30-09:45 Keynote speech: Stella Cox, Chair, Islamic Finance Market Advisory Group, TheCityUK

09:45-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-11:00

Panel 1: Participatory Finance: Enlarging the Customer Base Scene setter presentation by Richard Thomas, Chief Representative, Gatehouse Bank Malaysia

Moderator: Feyzullah Egriboyun

Panellists: Richard Thomas, Chief Representative, Gatehouse Bank Malaysia

Selim Elhadef, Partner, E&Y

Kasif Atun, Standard Chartered

Mustafa Dereci, Product Development Group Manager, KuveytTurk

Hulusi Horozoglu, Deputy General Manager, HSBC Turkey

11:00-12:00

Panel 2: Participatory Finance Model of Turkey: Succeeding through Collaboration

Moderator: Ben Aldred, Head of Financial Services, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Panellists: Suleyman Ozdil, Chairman, Halkbank

Zamır Iqbal, Head, World Bank Global Islamic Finance Research Centre

Stella Cox, Managing Director, DDGI Limited

Ayhan Keser, Deputy General Manager, Abaraka Turk

12:00-14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00-14:15 Keynote Speech: Harriett Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury

14:15-14:30 Keynote Speech: Taskin Temiz, Deputy Undersecretary, Undersecretariat of Treasury of Republic of Turkey

14:30-14:45 Keynote Speech: Tevfik Kinik, Vice Chairman, Capital Markets Board of Turkey

14:45-15:25 Presentation: Participatory Finance in Turkey: Emergence of a Regional Leader,

Paulius Kuncinas, Oxford Business Group

15:25-16:25

Panel 3: Future Trends and Opportunities in Takaful Moderator: Paulius Kuncinas, Managing Editor, Oxford Business Group

Panellists: Prof. Mehmet Asutay, Durham University

Sera Somay, Partner, Paksoy Law

Ozgur Bulent Koc, General Manager, Neova Sigorta and Chairman of Association of Participatory Insurance

Prof. Murat Kasimoglu, Treu Advisory

Murat Tasdemir, World Bank Global Islamic Finance Research Centre

16:25-17:00 Closing of the Conference