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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.