Turkey’s brokerages faced sharp trading falls in a tough climate last year of which 30% reported losses during the first half. That said, we had seen some downsizing-related layoffs as well as some international investment banks simply quitting the business. While this was partly due…
Sahibinden.com is an online shopping in platform in which people and businesses buy and sell real estate, cars and broad variety of goods and services, headquartered in Istanbul and owned by Aksoy Group. Sahibinden’s e-commerce business relies solely on third-party sales in Turkey, in other…
An Overall view of Turkish M&A activities M&A transactions along with other corporate finance actions such as divestitures, spin-offs, IPOs, corporate bond issuances and seasoned offerings are nowadays as much a talking point among finance professionals in Turkey as in Western economies though this was…
In response to the global financial crisis, financial institutions in advanced economies have increased their focus on risk management leading some of the big names in the industry bowing out of emerging markets with low risk-reward profile. Specifically, Turkey has been a unique stage for…
PwC, the network of member accounting firms, released a new report on energy, titled “Low Carbon Economy Index 2013: Busting the carbon budget”. Concentrating on the energy efficiency, the report emphasizes the rate of decarbonisation around the world. Overall, it suggest that requiring a rate…
Recently, Citi surveyed companies in Bahrain, Czech Republic, Jordan, Hungary, Poland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the UAE, with annual average revenues of $44m to see their expansion plans. The results suggest that most bosses are looking forward to expand to neighboring or close countries,…
Mergers and acquisitions deals are generally useful tools for gaining insight about the way where the economy is heading into, in that, they are pure tests for investor sentiment. We expect to see a decreasing number of activities on a pre-recession economy, the opposite way…
Private equity funds are collective investment schemes used for making investments in various equity securities according to one of the investment strategies associated with private equity. They can be can be used to capitalize new technologies, expand working capital within an owned company, make acquisitions,…