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country is simply a name existing in its license. Its “ Most important point is to act as to
What are the functions of the investment
banks in Turkey? What can you tell when it is
compared with the world?

Standings (Left to Right) Unfortunately, the investment banking in our
Can Yiğit Sarper - Assistant Specialist / Ayşegül Caboğlu - Manager / Murat Çimen - Senior Executive Vice President / Engin Pekdoğan - Director maximize the interests of the group in
Tamer Diri - Deputy General Manager / Zafer Babür Hakarar - Senior Executive Vice President/ Özgür Altuntaş - General Manager / situation and size may not be compared with the
Baki Arslan - Manager / Semih Subutay Nezir - Deputy General Manager / Özgür Özcan - Director Asistant / Ramazan Eser - Senior Expert / players in developed markets. Even the biggest banks
Ahmet Murat Kavurga - Deputy General Manager / Fatma Küsdül - Director / Serhat Kutlu - Deputy General Manager / Tuğba Uskuay - Director the big picture.
/ Yıldıray Nadi Soylu - Group Manager / Ayşegül Atakan - Senior Expert / Filiz Demirci - Executive Assistant/ Ersen Turan - Director / in the sector are seriously dealing with retail banking.
Hakan Öztürk - Director / Güven Tiringa - Senior Expert / Naki Şeker - Driver Also, the current legislation is very advantageous ”
for the Commercial banks. Due that the Investment
Banks may not really compete with the Commercial
Banks with this legislation, I think that in Turkey
it is not possible for the Investment Banks to reach
to global dimensions and even to compete with the
banks located within the country.

Upon looking from abroad, is Turkey
perceived as an investable country? What is
the direction of the change over the years?

Certainly, we already see that easily in the
Macroeconomic data In fact, upon looking at the
financial sector, we see that the state owned banks
are the only banks without foreign capital ownership.
Erkan Can - Group Manager / Nadir Güneş Yıldız -Director / Ozan Alparslan - Chief Supervisor / Reyhan Altunbaş - Catering Service /
Gizem Nimetoğlu - Officer / Ahmet Refik Yalman - Expert / Elif Yılmaz - Manager /
Adam Cumurcu - Senior Expert / Erhan Muslugil - Director / Oğuz Aslay - Assistant Specialist As a bank you are offering services to Nurol
Stables (Left to Right) Group companies as well. What do you
pay attention during distribution within or
outside the group?
Can you tell us about the personnel Can give information about the place of
distribution? Was there any organizational NurolBank as an investment bank?
restructuring? What are the changes? This is very thin and delicate line. Most important
point is to act as to maximize the interests of the
(Left to Right)
In fact it is quite unlikely to talk about a place at the Perim Sun Tokluoğlu - Co-Director
We have a structure consisting of 35 persons. We’re moment. Our market share is below 0.5 % However, group in the big picture. This would be done primarily Cevher Uzbek Yücel - Section Leader of Ankara
by minimizing our group’s risks to bring them to the
trying to turn our ultra - hierarchical structure into as of the end of 2018 we aim to take part among the level requested by the market and we have made very Birnur Dere - Senior Expert (Operation)
a fairly flat organizational structure. In order to be top 2 in our league.
effective, we had to close the business segments and well progress on this subject with the contributions of NurolBank Section of Ankara
our Group’s CFO.
departments which we consider unnecessary. Every
extra weight leads to deterioration in profitability and Do you think that its present place is
concentration. We have to be like an athlete free of fat sufficient in terms of recognition of As NurolBank what are your strengths and your aspects that need to be developed?
as possible, consisting of 99 % muscle and ready to the bank? What are your plans for its
run a marathon. development?
Yet, the only strength we have is being fast and we are spending our best effort for developing all other aspects.

What precisely are the main services offered It is difficult to talk about any recognition due that it Finally, can you give a little advice to our readers about investments and economic life?
by investment banks? was rather not active until October 2012. There is only
way for market recognition, which applies to every
The Capital Markets Intermediation, Structured business; to be active. So our plan is “to do business It looks as if it shall be quite a volatile year due to 2015 elections, the monetary policy of FED starting a new era
and the falling commodity prices. I personally would not keep foreign currency, and if I have foreign currency
Finance Solutions and Financial Solutions Consultancy which has an added value”. position debt, I think this is an opportunity for settling it. In terms of Stock Markets, I think the export strength
can be listed among the services we offer as NurolBank.
of Europe shall increase due to strong USD and thus the European Companies shall show a good performance.

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