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• To manage relations with existing and potential
international investors, domestic institutional
investors, credit rating agencies,
• To manage relations with the intermediary
institution’s bank analysts who prepare report
about the Bank,
• To participate on behalf of VakıfBank in the
meetings organized in and outside of the
country,
• To prepare quarterly presentations and organize
teleconferences regarding results of the
financial statements,
• To prepare corporate presentations and similar
meeting tools in order to publicize the Bank, to
organize target-driven road shows and various
meetings for informational purposes,
• has been in close communication with all the
analysts who prepared the reports about the
Bank.
• at the report preparation stages, provided
correct and healthy information to the analysts
and presented its opinions to the analysts on
the prepared reports.
2.2 Domestic Investor Relations Department
Relations with the domestic, non-institutional
investors and Shareholders are conducted by a
separate group within the Investment Banking
Directorate which carries out its duties at the
Bank Head Office, reporting to the Executive Vice
President, Dr. Hasan ECESOY.
Shareholders Relations group’s main activities
carried out for the domestic investors are stated
below:
• To keep up-to-date the “Investor Relations”
webpage in English which is available on the
Bank’s website.
During 2013, Investor Relations Department:
• attended 16 local and international investor
conferences and held face to face meetings
with approximately 600 international investors
and domestic institutional investors.
• held more than 250 meetings at the
Bank’s Istanbul office and contacted with
approximately 400 investors/analysts.
• after participating in the conferences which
were organized to inform the investors,
prepared reports in line with the information
gathered from the investors and presented
these reports to the Top Management.
• organized 4 live- teleconferences regarding
results of the financial statements and
published the records of these teleconferences
on the website.
• held assessment meetings with 4 credit rating
agencies.
• except the information that are within the
scope of confidentiality and trade secret, to
provide, correct, open, net and complete
information concurrently to Shareholders and
investors,
• with the aim of providing information to
Shareholders and investors, to organize
meetings periodically with the attendance of
the Bank Management,
• to ensure that the General Assembly meetings
are held in accordance with applicable
legislation, the Articles of Incorporation and
Bank’s internal regulations,
• to prepare documents related with the General
Assembly meetings and to provide them to
Shareholders,
• in case the Bank takes decision to make
dividend payment, to ensure that the required
transactions are performed in order to be able
to make dividend payments to Shareholders,
• to prepare public disclosures which must be
made related with the Bank in the format of
“Disclosure of Material Matters” and to send it
via Public Disclosure Platform
(www.kap.gov.tr).
1. Declaration of Corporate Governance
Principles Compliance
Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası T.A.O. (“VakıfBank” or
“Bank”), has adopted the Corporate Governance
Principles stipulated in accordance with the
Banking Legislation, Capital Markets Board
Legislation, Turkish Code of Commerce and other
relevant regulations.
Vakıfbank pays at most attention in order to
actualize these principles and adopted the
equality, transparency, accountability and
responsibility concepts of Corporate Governance
Principles published by Capital Markets Board
(CMB).
VakıfBank Corporate Governance Committee
continues to perform its tasks so as to improve
corporate governance practices. The principles,
except the ones that are currently being
implemented and the ones that have not been
implemented yet, did not create any conflict of
interest among the stakeholders till present.
During the year;
-information requests of our shareholders were
responded within the framework of the relevant
legislation,
-the information and documents that had to be
shared with the stakeholders within the scope
of the relevant legislation were included in the
“Investor Relations” section of the Bank’s website,
-the announcements were made within the
framework of the public disclosure legislation and
they were published on the Bank’s website.
With the aim of ensuring compliance of the
Bank’s Articles of Incorparation with all the
principles – obligatory to be implemented –
stipulated in the “Communiqué (Serial IV, n. 56)
on “Determination and Implementation of the
Corporate Governance Principles” published by
the Capital Markets Board, it was decided and
approved at the Ordinary General Assembly
meeting of VakıfBank, held on the 29th of March
2013 to amend the Articles 25,29,32,53,54,72,74
and 74/A of the Bank Articles of Incorporation.
CHAPTER I - SHAREHOLDERS
2. Shareholders Relations Unit
2.1 International Banking and Investor
Relations Directorate
International Banking and Investor Relations
Directorate which carries out its activities under
Executive Vice President, Numan BEK, manage
relations with international investors, domestic
institutional investors and credit rating agencies.
The fundamental responsibilities of the unit are as
follows:
Corporate Governance Principles Compliance Report
International BANKING AND INVESTOR RELATION
Name Surname
Title
Phone
E-Mail
Mustafa TURAN
Head +90 212 316 73 90
mustafa.turan@vakifbank.com.tr
Ali TAHAN
Manager +90 212 316 73 36
ali.tahan@vakifbank.com.tr
Zeynep Nihan DİNCEL
Associate +90 212 316 73 83 zeynepnihan.dincel@vakifbank.com.tr
Yasemin KEÇELİOĞLU Assistant
Associate
+90 212 316 73 85 yasemin.kecelioglu@vakifbank.com.tr
Ece Seda YASAN
Assistant
Associate
+90 212 316 74 01
eceseda.yasan@vakifbank.com.tr