Babacan opens the third Istanbul finance summit

The third Istanbul Finance Summit (IFS) kicked off in Istanbul to focus on Istanbul’s aspirations to become a global financial center. Speaking at the opening of the summit, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that it was a source of proud for Istanbul, which is the meeting point of Asia and Europe, the west and east and cultures and civilizations, to host leading finance experts, managers of stock exchanges, research houses and brokerages and the upper management of banks on the occasion of such a summit to seize the opportunity of evaluating global and global economy as well.