Borsa Istanbul Hosts 19th AFM Annual Conference

1. Host organisation:
Borsa İstanbul, with historical roots going back to 1873, is
a diversified regional exchange in Turkey, providing
trading, settlement, custody and registry services for
equities, derivatives, fixed income & repo, precious metals
and Islamic finance markets. Borsa İstanbul Derivatives
Market (VIOP) is the region’s leading and most liquid
derivatives marketplace where the investors and corporates
come to manage their risk. VIOP offers the widest range of regional
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and
optionsbasedonequityindices,currencies,interestrates,preciousmetals,commodities
and energy with a central counterparty clearing service. For more information, please visit
http://borsaistanbul.com/en/viop.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Istanbul – Turkey April 18-19, 2016
The Association of Futures Markets would like to invite you to join AFM’s 19th Annual
Conference organised in Istanbul, Turkey. The event is hosted by the Borsa İstanbul.
AFM is a not for profit organisation mostly comprised of leading developing exchanges from all around the world with some well
established ones, clearing houses and IT vendors among its members. Contacts: www.afmorg.net and conference@afmorg.net
The conference will serve as:
• an excellent platform for meeting senior representatives of AFM member and partner organisations
including other market participants from the AFM region;
• a great opportunity to present topical issues which are relevant for the proper development and
management of the derivatives industry in emerging markets;
• a place for active and engaging discussions with ample opportunities for establishing new
partnerships and consolidating existing relationships.
More information on the Conference will be available on the AFM website at www.afmorg.net
in the next 1-2 months.

2. ASSOCIATION OF FUTURES MARKETS
The Association of Futures Markets (AFM) is a
not-for-profit association established in 1998
in Buenos Aires by 10 founding members.
The prime objective of the Association is to
promote and encourage the establishment
of new derivative and related markets, to
support their development and to organize
international conferences in order to
promote communication between member
organizations, to strengthen their relationship
and to transfer information and experience
among them.
Membership is purposely open to a wide
variety of market participants to assure broad
perspectives in the participation and as a result
exchanges, clearing houses, traders as well as
other participants in the industry have joined
and support AFM.
The AFM website gives access to standardised
informationonmemberorganizationsupdated
on an annual basis. In the Library section
there are numerous educational and other
background materials related to derivatives
trading.
AFM conferences are held in different places
each year. The format of the conference is
panel discussions where important issues
facing emerging exchanges are discussed in
co-operation with established markets as well
as market participants.
AFM MEMBERS
Agricultural Commodity Exchange of Africa
Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange
Borsa İstanbul
Budapest Stock Exchange
Central Clearing House and Depository (Budapest)
Ltd. (KELER)
CQG
Euronext
Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges
GMEX Group
HUPX Hungarian Power Exchange
Indonesian Commodity and Derivatives Exchange
Iranian Mercantile Exchange
Jakarta Futures Exchange
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Mercado a Termino de Buenos Aires
Nairobi Stock Exchange
Pakistan Mercantile Exchange
Polish Power Exchange
Romanian Commodities Exchange
Rosario Futures Exchange
Securities and Trading Technologies
Sofia Commodity Exchange
Swiss Futures and Options Association
Taiwan Futures Exchange
Trayport
How to contact AFM
For more information on AFM, its members and its conferences, please contact Krisztina Kasza, Secretary of AFM at
krisztina@afmorg.net, (36-30) 34 35 370 (phone) or (36-1) 249 0057 (fax) or visit the AFM website at www.afmorg.net.