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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2011<br />
ISTANBUL GOLD EXCHANGE<br />
Our target is to establish a secure and<br />
organized market condition in Turkey for<br />
diamond and precious stones trading.<br />
Osman Sarac<br />
Chairman<br />
Istanbul Gold Exchange targets to stimulate local<br />
business and international attention with all other<br />
globally competitive enterprises which will provide<br />
Turkey to be a central hub for the gold business,<br />
due to its strategic position, as it lies in the heart<br />
of a major gold trade area, exposed to Middle<br />
East, Europe and Gulf States.<br />
In 2010 we have managed technical<br />
infrastructural studies as well as market structures<br />
and gold backed financial instruments studies.<br />
Since 2007 we have been making important steps<br />
to integrate international communities.<br />
For the integration of the Exchange to the<br />
international markets, there have been important<br />
steps since 2007. In March 2008 we have been<br />
an associate member to London Bullion Market<br />
Association, by May 2008 we have joined World<br />
Federation of Diamond Bourses, by February<br />
2010, we are honored to be part of a large family<br />
with distinguished members, <strong>FEAS</strong> as an affiliate<br />
member. The Exchange became a member of the<br />
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS),<br />
in August 2007, which aims to curb the flow of<br />
conflict diamonds, with 49 participants worldwide.<br />
By 2008 and 2009 IGE organized International<br />
Gold Summit in corporation with Active Academy<br />
to share the experiences of the Turkish and<br />
foreign participants in the Jewelry Sector which<br />
has been gaining important goals in the recent<br />
years.<br />
The Turkish gold Jewelry market has undergone a<br />
major revival since the early 1990s with the<br />
traditional and long-standing historical affinity for<br />
gold jewellery adjusted for modern tastes. Turkey<br />
is now the world’s fourth largest market for gold<br />
jewellery, third largest manufacturing centre and<br />
second biggest exporter.<br />
The annual export is estimated at US$ 2.5-3<br />
billion, part of which is from exports to<br />
wholesalers and retailers abroad while the bulk<br />
comes from sales to tourists sold in the local<br />
market. By 2010, by the increase of gold prices<br />
since 2008 huge amount of gold gold came to<br />
the market as scrap and Turkey turned to be an<br />
exporter of gold in the market.. The supply of<br />
scrap gold to the market continued in 2010 and<br />
an annual amount of 130-150 tonnes of gold was<br />
supplied to the market.<br />
The annual amount of gold and silver imported to<br />
Turkey through IGE were 42 and 20 tonne. The<br />
transactions amounts of gold and silver were<br />
about 115 and 388 tonnes.<br />
As a first spot trading gold exchange in the world,<br />
IGE was founded with the principle semielectronic<br />
system trading floor. By 2009, a new<br />
screen-based fully electronic trading system has<br />
been launched with remote access in order to<br />
provide investors 24 hours trading.<br />
Istanbul Gold Exchange is having a role of<br />
safeguard for gold funds and gold ETF which is<br />
listed in ISE. Over 6.000 kgs of Gold kept in the<br />
Exchange on the name of the 24 funds.<br />
For the upcoming years, our target is to establish<br />
a secure and organized market condition in<br />
Turkey for diamond and precious stones trading.<br />
Turkey is launching its first diamond market and<br />
aiming to become a regional trading hub for the<br />
precious stones. Istanbul Gold Exchange is also<br />
working on a project to launch a foreign<br />
exchange market, base metals market and<br />
Carbon Licenses Market. We aim to see tangible<br />
progress on these objectives in 2011.<br />
General Information<br />
Istanbul Gold Exchange is a state institution which<br />
has an autonomous system, for precious metals<br />
trading in organized market conditions with time<br />
and price priority. Gold prices on the Istanbul Gold<br />
Exchange are determined by the market, generally<br />
reflecting trends in international prices. Members of<br />
Istanbul Gold Exchange are authorized to import<br />
gold to Turkey.<br />
Services Provided<br />
• Spot gold, silver and platinum trading,<br />
• Precious Metals Lending Market transactions,<br />
• Physical settlement of the transactions,<br />
• Depository for the precious metals belonging to<br />
mutual funds and gold ETF in Turkey.<br />
• Depository for individual investors.<br />
• Authority for Kimberley Process Certification<br />
Scheme for rough diamonds in Turkey.<br />
• Determination of local and international Precious<br />
Metals Refineries, whose products can be imported<br />
to Turkey and be transacted in the Exchange,<br />
Brief History<br />
Istanbul Gold Exchange began its operations on<br />
July 26, 1995. The Exchange has two types of<br />
markets: Precious Metals Market, Precious Metal<br />
Lending Market. In markets, standard and nonstandard<br />
gold, silver and platinum are traded.<br />
Spot gold trading started at the opening of the<br />
Exchange. Silver and non standard precious metals<br />
started to trade in 1999. Precious Metals Lending<br />
Market started its operations in Istanbul Gold<br />
Exchange on March 24, 2000 for the purpose of<br />
bringing supply and demand into an organized<br />
market, lowering the production costs of the<br />
jewellery sector and securitization of gold.<br />
Domestic or foreign banks, precious metals<br />
companies, currency offices, precious metals<br />
producing and marketing companies and precious<br />
metals refineries that obtained the membership<br />
certificate from the Under-Secretariat of Turkish<br />
Treasury and complied with the requirements set<br />
forth by the IGE Board of Directors can trade on the<br />
exchange. There are 84 members consisting of 22<br />
banks, 33 Exchange Offices, 21 Precious Metals<br />
Brokerage Houses and 8 Precious Metals<br />
producing and marketing companies.<br />
Form of Settlement and Transfers<br />
Through member accounts by Clearing Center and<br />
Clearing Bank<br />
Legal Status<br />
State Institution<br />
Settlement Period<br />
From T+0 up to T+9<br />
Regulated by<br />
State Ministry<br />
Under –Secretariat of Treasury<br />
Board of Directors: 5 Members<br />
President of the Exchange<br />
Vakifbank T.A.O (bank)<br />
Atasay Kiymetli Madenler A.S. (Precious Metals<br />
Brokerage House)<br />
Istanbul Altin Rafinerisi A.S. (Precious Metals<br />
Refinery)<br />
Yildiz Doviz ve Kiymetli Maden Tic. A.S. (Foreign<br />
Exchange Office)<br />
Memberships to International<br />
Organizations<br />
London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)<br />
World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB)<br />
Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (<strong>FEAS</strong>)<br />
Future Outlook<br />
In 2011, IGE intends to:<br />
• To complete the new infrastructure for internet<br />
based 24 hours trading,<br />
•Establish the customer based ordering, trading<br />
system and mobile trading system<br />
• To open Diamond and Precious Stones Market,<br />
•Establishment and implementation of Base Metals<br />
Market in IGE,<br />
• Establishment and implementation of Currency<br />
Market in the Exchange,<br />
• Establishment and implementation of Carbon,<br />
Rights and Licenses Market in the Exchange,<br />
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