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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES SEMI ANNUAL REPORT MAY 2005<br />

FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES<br />

THE ORGANIZATION<br />

WORKING COMMITTEE MEETINGS –<br />

10-11 MAY 2004 – MUSCAT, OMAN<br />

The first working committee meetings of 2004<br />

were held in Muscat, Oman on 10-11 May,<br />

2004 at the invitation of the Muscat Securities<br />

Market. All three Working Committees focused<br />

on issues mandated by the General Assembly<br />

in 2003 and the Secretariat prepared a report to<br />

participants.<br />

JOINT WORKING COMMITTEE AND<br />

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS<br />

14-15 DECEMBER 2004 – ISTANBUL,<br />

TURKEY<br />

The second combined working committee<br />

meeting of 2004 was held in Istanbul, Turkey on<br />

14-15 December, 2004 at the invitation of the<br />

Istanbul Stock Exchange. The combined<br />

Working Committees focused on issues<br />

mandated by the General Assembly in 2003<br />

and the Secretariat prepared a report to<br />

participants. During this meeting, Amman Stock<br />

Exchange was elected as the new head of the<br />

Working Committee. In addition, the President<br />

of <strong>FEAS</strong>, Mr. Osman Birsen, initiated a circular<br />

resolution in order to allow members to vote on<br />

the applications of 6 affiliate members. Based<br />

on the circular resolution, 6 new affiliate<br />

members were admitted to <strong>FEAS</strong>:<br />

• Central Securities Depository AD Skopje,<br />

Macedonia<br />

• Central Depository Company of Pakistan<br />

Limited<br />

• Central Depository of Armenia SRO<br />

• ISE Settlement and Custody Bank Inc.,<br />

Takasbank, Turkey<br />

• Securities Depository Center of Jordan<br />

• Tehran Stock exchange Services Company,<br />

Iran<br />

10TH ANNUAL GENERAL<br />

ASSEMBLY/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE<br />

MEETINGS<br />

16-18TH SEPTEMBER 2004 – ZAGREB,<br />

CROATIA<br />

The 10th Annual General Assembly of <strong>FEAS</strong> was<br />

held in Zagreb, Croatia on September 17th at the<br />

invitation of the Zagreb Stock Exchange. In<br />

addition the 10th Executive Committee meeting<br />

and a Joint Working Committee meeting were<br />

held prior to the General Assembly on<br />

September 17th. The meeting was opened by<br />

the Croatian Assistant Minister of Finance,<br />

Mr. Ante Zigman who spoke of Croatia’s positive<br />

feedback on its application for membership into<br />

the European Union (EU) and how Croatia’s<br />

program of economic growth and stability,<br />

reforms and institutional strengths could be an<br />

example to other countries applying to the EU in<br />

difficult economic times.<br />

Main decisions and topics of discussion included:<br />

• acceptance of the following new members<br />

- Abu Dhabi Securities Market<br />

- Banja Luka Stock Exchange<br />

- Belgrade Stock Exchange<br />

- Sarajevo Stock Exchange applications;<br />

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• amendment of the <strong>FEAS</strong> Charter to allow for<br />

affiliate members;<br />

• adoption of the proposed 2005 mandates for<br />

the Working Committee;<br />

• extension of the <strong>FEAS</strong> bilateral exchange<br />

program between members;<br />

• adoption of the 2005 budget, audited<br />

statements and 2004 year-end forecast;<br />

• review of the 2004 accomplishments including<br />

the status of special projects with the OECD, the<br />

SECI and the Trading Survey and Revenue and<br />

Expense Analysis; and<br />

• adoption of the dues restructuring for 2005,<br />

among other topics.<br />

Elections: President and Vice President of<br />

<strong>FEAS</strong><br />

The General Assembly elected the President and<br />

Vice President of <strong>FEAS</strong> for a two-year term ending<br />

May 2007 as follows: The President will remain the<br />

Istanbul Stock Exchange, The Vice President is<br />

the Zagreb Stock Exchange.<br />

PUBLICATIONS & INFORMATION<br />

<strong>FEAS</strong> Library: The Library can be accessed<br />

through the Publications drop down menu on the<br />

main page at www.feas.org or through this link<br />

http://www.feas.org/Library.cfm. The <strong>FEAS</strong> Library<br />

is open to experts and organizations with financial<br />

market related material. If you would like to make<br />

a submission to the <strong>FEAS</strong> Library, please send<br />

your electronic files and links to the <strong>FEAS</strong><br />

secretariat at secretariat@feas.org.<br />

<strong>FEAS</strong> Semi Annual Report: This publication of<br />

semi-annual activities of the Federation and its<br />

members began in 1997 and is now available<br />

electronically on the website:<br />

http://www.feas.org/Publications.cfm?Get=Yearbo<br />

ok&Top=Pubs<br />

<strong>FEAS</strong> Website: The new <strong>FEAS</strong> website was<br />

launched on 31 July 2002 and can be found at<br />

www.feas.org. The new site now contains a more<br />

concentrated emphasis on <strong>FEAS</strong> member data<br />

with profile pages (including statistics, holidays,<br />

market policies and practices and direct links to<br />

their sites), Excel downloads for all statistical data<br />

and cross member comparisons on policies,<br />

practices and statistical data, and a News Center<br />

with headlines from member markets.<br />

Newsletter: A monthly publication which includes<br />

general secretariat news, statistical stock, bond<br />

and other volume comparisons on monthly, yearto-date<br />

and prior period bases, in addition to<br />

market cap, currency, number of companies<br />

traded and index statistics. Quarterly<br />

supplemental publications include quarterly<br />

statistical analysis, press releases of <strong>FEAS</strong><br />

members and headlines of <strong>FEAS</strong> activities.<br />

Archived copies of the newsletter can be found on<br />

our website:<br />

http://www.feas.org/Publications.cfm?Get=Newsle<br />

tter&Top=Pubs.<br />

SUBSCRIBE<br />

To subscribe for the electronic version of <strong>FEAS</strong><br />

publications, please go to www.feas.org and click<br />

on subscribe. Subscriptions include monthly<br />

notifications of statistics and newsletter updates,<br />

as well as advance notice of <strong>FEAS</strong> events and<br />

activities.<br />

CONTRIBUTORS<br />

Please visit our Contributors’ sites. Contributors<br />

can be seen on the <strong>FEAS</strong> website at:<br />

http://www.feas.org/Contributors.cfm.<br />

2004 Contributors to <strong>FEAS</strong> are:<br />

Computershare Markets Technology:<br />

www.computershare.com<br />

Tata Consulting Services:<br />

www.tcs.com<br />

Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX Ltd.<br />

www.stoxx.com<br />

Garanti Securities<br />

www.garantisecurities.com<br />

Takasbank:<br />

www.takasbank.com.tr<br />

Is Investment:<br />

www.isinvestment.com<br />

DenizBank FSG:<br />

www.denizbank.com<br />

TurkDEX:<br />

www.turkdex.org.tr<br />

Tayburn Kurumsal:<br />

www.tayburnkurumsal.com<br />

<strong>FEAS</strong> REGION OUTLOOK<br />

Gokce Kabatepe, Managing Director<br />

Corporate Finance<br />

Raymond James Securities - Turkey<br />

With the inclusion of the first-wave of European<br />

Union (EU) accession countries from the Eastern<br />

European region to the EU, expectations are<br />

continually increasing for the amount of FDI to be<br />

attracted by the region. Coming privatizations in<br />

many of the countries of the region should be the<br />

main drivers behind the increasing levels of<br />

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the region.<br />

The involvement of international investors is highly<br />

encouraged in the still-ongoing privatization<br />

programs of these countries and the participation<br />

of the private sector in large infrastructure projects<br />

is still substantially important.<br />

Among the countries in the region, Turkey<br />

especially is showing extraordinary recovery in the<br />

aftermath of its own 2001 crisis. This recovery<br />

reached peak levels in 2004 and the economic<br />

stability reached such levels that the IMF has<br />

named Turkey “a country on a way to become a<br />

tiger economy”. Furthermore, the fact that the EU<br />

accession talks will begin in October 2005 has<br />

been a major booster for the Turkish economy.<br />

The Middle East region, on the other hand, is still<br />

driving up export earnings continually with the<br />

help of firm oil prices. The rise in oil prices is also<br />

helping to offset the rise in import demand in the<br />

region.

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