The World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) is an international organization that connects angel investors and startups. It holds an annual conference (WBAF-2019) that brings together over 200 leaders in early stage investing from over 80 countries. The conference includes sessions on topics like connecting private equity with angel investors, fintech, and impact investing. It also recognizes outstanding contributors to entrepreneurship through an awards ceremony. The WBAF works closely with organizations like the G20 and World Bank to advance its mission of supporting startups and developing angel investment ecosystems globally.
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The establishment of G20, comprising around 90 per cent of the global GDP, 80 per cent of the world trade and more than two-third of the world’s population, recognized considerable changes in the international economic landscape.
The G20 plays a vital role in supporting globalization, development of domestic financial markets, regional economic integration, demographics and resource security. Independent business associations from G20 countries formed a coalition named as Business 20 (B20). The coalition acts a bridge between government and business communities of the G20 countries.
The November 2014 edition of the Multilateral Newsletter highlights the key deliberations made at the G20 and B20 Summits. In addition, it covers key points of major happenings from the recently held ASEAN Summit in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
Read the Newsletter for more information with reference
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As an intermediary platform, the G20 Foundation positions itself as process enabler and a facilitator between governments, business, and academia within the G20 process.
We add value through encouraging broader public consensus and understanding of the G20 commitments which leads to higher accountability and raises effectiveness of a governance process.
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Through this newsletter, CII hopes to provide an insight to all such multilateral and regional engagements of India and Indian industry.
The growing importance of emerging economies, along with the increasing integration of the global economy and financial markets, underscore the importance of broadening the scope of international economic and financial co-operation.
The establishment of G20, comprising around 90 per cent of the global GDP, 80 per cent of the world trade and more than two-third of the world’s population, recognized considerable changes in the international economic landscape.
The G20 plays a vital role in supporting globalization, development of domestic financial markets, regional economic integration, demographics and resource security. Independent business associations from G20 countries formed a coalition named as Business 20 (B20). The coalition acts a bridge between government and business communities of the G20 countries.
The November 2014 edition of the Multilateral Newsletter highlights the key deliberations made at the G20 and B20 Summits. In addition, it covers key points of major happenings from the recently held ASEAN Summit in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
Read the Newsletter for more information with reference
The G20 Foundation is an independent platform formed to help develop a framework for better global governance.
As an intermediary platform, the G20 Foundation positions itself as process enabler and a facilitator between governments, business, and academia within the G20 process.
We add value through encouraging broader public consensus and understanding of the G20 commitments which leads to higher accountability and raises effectiveness of a governance process.
As a non-partisan think tank, we stimulate constructive and effective discussions within “Outreach Dialogue” in order to support the implementation of the G20 commitments on a national level.
Thereby we foster the development of innovative solutions to global challenges, such as economic stability and sustainable growth.
India’s engagement at multilateral forums has significantly increased over the last one decade. It has been playing a constructive role in forums like G-20 (B-20) which has been deliberating on critical issues of global economic and trade governance post the financial crisis. Besides this, India has also joined the grouping like IBSA and BRICS, which again are playing an important role in current global scenario.
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Through this newsletter, CII hopes to provide an insight to all such multilateral and regional engagements of India and Indian industry.
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1. WBAF*-2019, A Compilation; (As Infopreneur** & Thırd Eye***.. )
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. The Group of Twenty (G20) (1) is the premier forum for its members’ international
economic cooperation and decision-making. Turkey is one of the few countries in Europe
having a strong angel investment legislation. The GPFI’s primary focus, the implementation
of the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP), is carried forward by its four subgroups.
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands is the Honorary Patron of the G20’s Global
Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). While the Queen CERRUTİ’s Presidency, Baybars
ALTUNTAŞ who is the Former Senior Advisor of the London Stock Exchange Group for the
Elite Program is still Chairman of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) one
of the few partners in the world, G20, GPFI.
2. WBAF cooperates with a wide range of public and private, local and international,
commercial and academic institutions to help shape the global agenda. WBAF also helps
policymakers, entrepreneurs, beginners and SMEs fully appreciate the importance of
intelligent financing by angel investors. This year’s forum will focus on the theme ‘Connecting
Private Equity Funds with Angel Investors to Boost Innovation’. WBAF is taking the initiative,
creating an international platform to support the transitioning of today’s CEOs to the qualified
angel investors of tomorrow. Take Invest Summıt 2019, for the first time ever, offers an
excellent opportunity for global networking with high net worth individuals, co-investment
fund managers, bank executives, stock exchange executives, and VCs from all over the
world. Take Invest Summıt 2019 is connecting Start-ups & Scale-ups with Angel Investors.
The FinTech Summit 2019 will address the challenges and opportunities of the global fintech
ecosystem.
3. The WBAF invites angel investors, corporate venture executives, fund managers,
stock exchange executives and public institutions to the Impact Investment summit. Global
Fund Raising Stage 2019 offers an excellent opportunity for global networking with high net
worth individuals, co-investment fund managers, bank executives, stock exchange
executives, and VCs from all over the world. The biggest angel investment forum in the
world, WBAF wants to give 66 start-ups, scale-ups and high-growth businesses an
opportunity to connect with hundreds of highly qualified angel investors from five continents.
4. WBAF Excellence Awards recognize notable activities in 12 fields in 2018
throughout world saluting outstanding contributors to entrepreneurship and the angel
investment ecosystems globally. Winners are announced in VIP Gala Awards Dinner event
which brings together over 200 leading players from across the early stage investment
industry to join in celebrating the Awards winners highlighting the year’s most innovative
angel-backed businesses and investors from across the world. WBAF interacts with leaders
in all areas of society first and foremost Markets and Payment Systems, in business and
political spheres to help assess needs and establish goals, bearing in mind that the public
interest is of paramount importance.
5. WBAF-2019 this year, workshops, Startup and small jobs by investing in financial
terms how to get great returns? What is the ideal combination of angel investor finance and
VC financing? How can we maximize human resource investment from the establishment
stage to the growth and exit phase? How can you copy Steve Jobs's copy method so that
you can create a unicorn? 7 smart steps to quickly expand your Startup. How can you
transform yourself into a successful and quality angel investor? You can find answers to your
questions .
2. 1. INTRODUCTION:
The G-20(1) members include the G-7 nations This group of countries also meets on
their own program. There are eleven emerging market and smaller industrialized countries.
The EU is also a member of the G-20. The G-7 countries grow slower. The BRIC(2) countries
has driven the growth of the global economy. Therefore, the BRIC countries are critical for
ensuring continued global economic prosperity. In 1999, these ministers and governors
created the G-20. They needed dialogue between developing and developed countries.
The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for its members’ international
economic cooperation and decision-making. Its membership comprises 19 countries plus the
European Union. Each G20 president invites several guest countries each year. G20 leaders
meet annually. In addition, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meet regularly
during the year to discuss ways to strengthen the global economy, reform international
financial institutions, improve financial regulation and implement the key economic reforms
that are needed in each member economy. Underpinning these meetings(3) is a year-long
program of meetings among senior officials and of working groups coordinating policy on
specific issues.
Turkey is one of the few countries in Europe having a strong angel investment
legislation Turkey, as the 6th biggest market size in Europe, is a startup country promising
well to global angel investors. Turkey is a regional hub center of early stage investments.
Turkey has set out a set of concrete objectives covering various aspects of governance.
Realization of these objectives will not only raise the standards of peace and prosperity at
home, but will also reinforce Turkey’s contributions to her neighborhood and indeed the
world. Turkey’s enterprising and humanitarian foreign policy acts on that premise and will
continue to endeavor to secure our national interests and contribute to the common goals of
humanity(4). Turkey is one of the few countries with the entrepreneurial base to increase its
standing which placed at 16th
rank, in a rapidly changing world economy in the 21st
century.
Turkey, which has been one of the least affected economies in the global economic crisis is
in the fortunate position of being able to use the power of its entrepreneurs to increase her
competitive advantage as the crises gives way to regional and worldwide economic growth.
The Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion(5)(6) (GPFI) is an inclusive platform for
G20 countries, interested non-G20 countries, and relevant stakeholders to carry forward
work on financial inclusion, including implementation of the G20 Financial Inclusion
Action Plan(7)(FIAP) endorsed at the G20 Summit in Seoul. Her Majesty Queen
Máxima of the Netherlands is the Honorary Patron of the G20’s (GPFI).
Baybars ALTUNTAŞ(8) Former Senior Advisor of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
for the Elite Program, Chairman of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) –
an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) chaired by
the Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.
The G20’s commitment to expand financial services has underpinned internationally
recognized efforts to advance financial inclusion. This undertaking is embodied in the GPFI.
The GPFI, created in 2010 at the Seoul G20 Summit, is committed to advancing financial
inclusion globally by increasing access to, as well as usage of, sustainable formal financial
services, thereby expanding opportunities for underserved and excluded households and
enterprises. The GPFI’s primary focus, the implementation of the G20 FIAP, is carried
forward by its four Subgroups: 1) SME Finance, 2) Regulation and Standard-Setting Bodies,
3) Financial Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, and 4) Markets and Payment
Systems. Subgroup on SME Finance Established in 2010 Co-Chairs are still Germany,
Turkey.
The 2017 G20 FIAP—a revision of the earlier 2010 and 2014 editions—reaffirms. The
2017 G20 FIAP builds upon the work undertaken under the previous G20 FIAPs (2010 and
2014 editions) and is informed by a fresh look at the opportunities and challenges of the
changing landscape of financial inclusion and by a consultative process within the GPFI.
The financial inclusion is fundamentally defined as the ratio of individuals and
companies using typical financial services. In the context of wider policy, the financial
3. inclusion should enable all individuals and businesses in need of financial services to access
and use all the financial products they needed. It may also means to provide them in an
effective and responsible way by means of financial institutions and to have the necessary
knowledge and skills for individuals and businesses to use these products. Not only the
access to financial services, but also the regular and effective use and quality of financial
services are important considerations for ensuring the financial inclusion. As a concept, the
financial inclusion includes full access to financial services, financial consumer protection
and financial literacy. (9)
These 2016 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion build on that success
by providing a basis for country action plans reflecting country context and national
circumstances to leverage the huge potential offered by digital technologies. These eight
principles are based on the rich experience reflected in G20 and international standardsetting
bodies’ standards and guidance. They also recognize the need to support innovation while
managing risk and encouraging development of digital financial products and services.
Article 6 of the 2017 FIAP on eight principles also concerns WBAF in this respect.
2. THE WORLD BUSİNESS ANGELS INVESTMENT FORUM (WBAF/ WBAF-2019)
The World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) interacts with leaders in all
areas of society first and foremost, in business and political spheres to help assess needs
and establish goals, bearing in mind that the public interest is of paramount importance.
WBAF engages with a wide range of institutions — public and private, local and international,
commercial and academic — to help shape the global agenda. WBAF holds that, with the
participation of individuals and institutions from multiple sectors and from all parts of society,
real progress can be achieved.
WBAF has made agreements with the International Finance Corporation of the World
Bank Group(10) (IFC), The London Stock Exchange Group(11)( (LSEG), The International
Science Parks Association(12)( (IASP), The World Association of Investment Promotion
Agencies(13)(WAIPA), The European Trade Association for Business Angels(14)EBAN), The
African Business Angels Network(15)(ABAN), and the Middle East Trade Association for
Business Angels(16) (MBAN).
Macedonian State Minister responsible for the laws, Kosovo Parliament President
Kadri VESELİ, Nasdaq Vice President Carsten BORRING, World Blockchain Consortium
President Brad Bulent YASAR will also participate in the Forum. Macedonian President
IVANOV will also participate in the award ceremony.
Croatia is represented by the President of Croatia, GRABAR-KITAROVİÇ, this year in
the World Angel Investment Forum, which is accepted as the Davos of global early-stage
investment and capital markets. This year's Congress will host 23 main sessions and 110
international speakers. Hundreds of angel investors and major players of capital markets
from 82 countries will participate. Turkey will be represented by Youth and Sports Minister Dr
Mehmet Kasapoğlu while Spain Investment Agency (ICEX) from attending to WBAF.
WBAF also helps policymakers, entrepreneurs, beginners and SMEs fully appreciate
the importance of intelligent financing by angel investors. This year’s forum will focus on the
theme ‘Connecting Private Equity Funds with Angel Investors to Boost Innovation’. WBAF is
taking the initiative, creating an international platform to support the transitioning of today’s
CEOs to the qualified angel investors of tomorrow.
Take Invest Summıt 2019 , for the first time ever, offers an excellent opportunity for
global networking with high net worth individuals, co-investment fund managers, bank
executives, stock exchange executives, and VCs from all over the world.
Take Invest Summıt 2019 is connecting Start-ups & Scale-ups with Angel Investors.
The FinTech Summit 2019 will address the challenges and opportunities of the global fintech
ecosystem.
The WBAF invites angel investors, corporate venture executives, fund managers,
stock exchange executives and public institutions to the Impact Investment summit. Global
4. Fund Raising Stage 2019 offers an excellent opportunity for global networking with high net
worth individuals, co-investment fund managers, bank executives, stock exchange
executives, and VCs from all over the world. The biggest angel investment forum in the
world, WBAF wants to give 66 start-ups, scale-ups and high-growth businesses an
opportunity to connect with hundreds of highly qualified angel investors from five continents.
WBAF Excellence Awards recognize notable activities in 12 fields in 2018 throughout
world saluting outstanding contributors to entrepreneurship and the angel investment
ecosystems globally. Winners are announced in VIP Gala Awards Dinner event which brings
together over 200 leading players from across the early stage investment industry to join in
celebrating the Awards winners highlighting the year’s most innovative angel-backed
businesses and investors from across the world.
WBAF is keen to accelerate the conversion of public money to smart money so as to
boost innovation By means of Angel Investor Programme (QBAC+). The course is designed
to provide angel investors with both the knowledge and the tools that will help them
accomplish their own goals as angel investors, which will in turn contribute to the
achievement of the WBAF’s goals for the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The WBAF-2019 Workshops serve not just business angels; all types of stakeholders
are welcome, ranging from entrepreneurs and SMEs to banks and stock exchanges to
incubation and acceleration centres. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of
skills and expertise and to foster the kind of creative thinking that leads to innovation and
eventual success in the ever-changing market environment of the 21st century.
The workshops give participants considerable experience and allows them to become
familiar with the subject in depth with expert advice. In the workshops, the program and the
specific topics and the speakers explain the subject and explain their experiences in a
program flow. By providing the opportunity to transfer the information to the application with
the common applications jointly, it enables the acquisition of application skills. It offers an
environment that supports multi-faceted learning, where people can learn from each other,
synthesize multiple perspectives, and respond to questions in mind. WBAF-2019 this year,
workshops, Startup and small jobs by investing in financial terms how to get great returns?
What is the ideal combination of angel investor finance and VC financing? How can we
maximize human resource investment from the establishment stage to the growth and exit
phase? How can you copy Steve Jobs's copy method so that you can create a unicorn? 7
smart steps to quickly expand your Startup. How can you transform yourself into a successful
and quality angel investor? You can find answers to your questions ..
Workshop 1:Callum LAİNG, the representative of the World Angel Investment Forum
in Singapore, will clarify a very important topic. Startup and entrepreneurs often complain
about lack of funding, lack of quality startup projects for investors. The investment ecosystem
on a global scale sees the investor and entrepreneur as two separate parties, and the
strategies of investing or investing are developing separately. Here are the opportunities that
can occur if both sides take part in the same line and how this can be realized by Callum
LAİNG. LAİNG is also the founder of publicly-held Marketing Holding in Nasdaq.
Workshop 2:In this workshop, which will be given by Prof Ian SOSSO, founder of
Monte Carlo Capital, will be told how angel investors can act together with VCs in the
investment band of between 500 thousand USD and 2 million USD.
Workshop 3:This workshop will be given by Wayne CLARKE, the founding chairman
of the Global Growth Institute based in England. The importance of corporate leadership
from the initial stage to the exit stage will be given with various case studies. The cooperation
between the startup founders and the company's professional managers can be improved so
that the performance of team members can be maximized.
Workshop 4: In this workshop, which will be given by Patrick KEDZİORA, the
representative of the World Angel Investment Forum in France, will be conveyed to you with
striking examples how world-renowned artists, musicians, scientists, filmmakers and
inventors have been influenced by others and how they succeeded in developing ideas that
they have copied or inspired. At the end of the Workhop, you'll find important clues as to how
you can capture the look of Picasso or Steve Jobs.
5. Workshop 5 : Michael O'CONNOR, the founder and president of CorkBIC, the leading
technology hub in Ireland, will present the most important 3 steps to be taken before the
investment decision. will be transferred to the participants.
Workshop 6:In this workshop, which will be given by Marcel DRİDJE, the head of
Sophia Business Angels, one of France's largest angel investment networks, until now, no
angel has invested in the angel or invested in angels, to know what they need to know, what
kind of steps they should take and what kind of training they should take. A clear roadmap for
future angel investors will be presented in this workshop.
3. CONCLUSION:
As entrepreneurial businessmen of experience have come together under the
umbrella of The Business Angels(17) Association-Turkey (TBAA)(18) to contribute to Turkey’s
economic ecosystem by facilitating start-up business’ access to national and international
capital. WBAF interacts with leaders in all areas of society first and foremost Markets and
Payment Systems, in business and political spheres to help assess needs and establish
goals, bearing in mind that the public interest is of paramount importance. TBAA is easing
the way for entrepreneurs planning start-ups to access both domestic and international
financial sources.
The Annual Conference (WBAF-2019), aims to shape global, regional and industry
agendas has held every February up to now. WBAF is going to host more than 1000
delegates from all over the world at the World Congress of Angel Investors 2019, the biggest
annual gathering of the world early stage equity and investment markets, will have 5
important summits running concurrently on the same days. In addition to the Annual
Conference, the Strategic Planning Meeting, the Global Cooperation Summit, the World
Excellence Awards and the VIP Gala Dinner, the World Excellence Awards, greet the
prominent ones in designing, discussing and shaping the future of an entrepreneurial world.
WBAF Annual Conference 2019 for angel investors, Take Invest Summit 2019 for start-ups
and scale-ups, FinTech Summit 2019 for finance executives, Impact Investment Summit
2019 for impact investors and CEO-Preneurship Summit 2019 for CEOs of global companies
over 100 million dollar will address to main challenges and opportunities of the world
economy in 2019.
As a global organization, WBAF is unique in focusing on a 'smart' approach to
transforming the world economy into a smart economy. Thus, WBAF has more jobs and
more social justice to be produced.
Forum(19), is bringing together key players of the equity market to discuss the benefits
of and the challenges to the angel investment community’s achieving successful growth for
their businesses and to discuss what more can be done to connect the early-stage market
ecosystem. In addition to the organizations listed above, the Forum is also in close contact
with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)(20), Advisory
Group for the Poor (CGAP) (21), SME Finance Forum (22), World Bank Group(23), and
member of the World Bank Group, IFC (24).
The Forum is also unique in its focus on the five dynamics that all incorporate “the
smart” concept. WBAF helps policy makers, entrepreneurs, beginners, and SMEs to fully
appreciate the importance of intelligent funding that can only be provided by angel investors.
G20 Innovative financial engagement aims to facilitate the establishment of a facilitating
policy and a robust dissemination of innovative financial approaches (25). Different countries
may face different challenges, but their problems are not specific to any country since world
economies are no longer isolated. Therefore, solutions should be sought in the wider
international ecosystem.
WBAF encourages entrepreneurs to raise funds from smart investors such as angel
investors or from financial resources that cooperate with angel investors. WBAF therefore
invites governments and policymakers to develop strong angel investment plans to be used
in conjunction with public support to entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and SMEs, including the
Technology Development Zones (26) The World Business Angels Investment Forum aims to
6. contribute to this impact by making positive changes that will facilitate entrepreneurship (27).
Encouraging entrepreneurship in which both economic and social influence is felt is a feature
of the World Business Angels Investment Forum.
The World Business Angels Investment Forum is providing a unique opportunity to 66
selected start-ups and scale-ups to pitch their businesses on The Global Fund Raising Stage
(28) (GFRS) of The World Congress 2019 and shape the 2019 agenda of the world equity
markets. The World Business Angels Investment Forum 2019 will transform the finance
industry by incorporating cutting-edge technology and mobilize private and public capital in
innovative ways for the social good. The World Business Angels Investment Forum 2019 an
opportunity to connect with and learn from hundreds of highly qualified angel investors from
five continents. The World Business Angels Investment Forum 2019 foster the kind of
creative thinking that leads to innovation by open learning and skill development. The World
Business Angels Investment Forum 2019 salute those who stand out in imagining,
discussing, and shaping the future of an entrepreneurial world. The World Business Angels
Investment Forum 2019 help the next generation of great companies move forward. The
World Business Angels Investment Forum 2019 qualified Angel Investor Certificate
Programme will start immediately after WBAF-2019. It is the position of the WBAF
Investment Academy that, when investors have had the advantage of training in the best
practices of negotiating deals for early-stage investment. They will be in a better position to
ensure good returns on their investment.
In WBAF-2019 (17-18-19 February 2019, the Swissotel, The Bosphorus Istanbul)
you will create a positive change in the global economy by crossing the borders, working
together, taking a shared vision and considering these intelligent dynamics. Come on! All
together, let yourself be there..
* WBAF: the World Business Angels Investment Forum
**INFOPRENEURSHIP The Information Entrepreneur covers only an attempt to collect, compile and disseminate information.
***THIRD EYE
THIRD EYE but WHY?
We have to offer them new benefits / values that customers want but cannot find. Even if we
do not have skills in these new issues, we should focus on developing these skills. First, get to know
your customer, then give them what they want and can't find.
The founder and president of Amazon.com Jeff BEZOS
Under the influence of globalization, ruthless competition conditions, entrepreneurs, bosses, managers, politicians and
all decision makers no longer two eyes is enough. At this point, failure is inevitable for the managers or firms that use the
existing two eyes in the narrow sense. As a matter of fact, danger bells play for some companies every day, and many
companies are not able to withstand such competitive conditions.
On the other hand, due to these competitive conditions, all companies are pressuring their suppliers to lower their
product prices. While most of them are uncontrollable, in addition to improvements in input costs, it is recommended to reduce
quality costs or increase efficiency as the most effective way to reduce prices. Currently, the profits of firms are around 5-10%.
Companies that make 15% or more profits now say they are doing very well.
Therefore, the error rates are not sufficient for a thousandths or a thousandth of a thousand, and in a hundred thousand or a
million the following are errors (ppm). All this can be considered as a sign of ”third eye” or bir another eye ”or ere different view
Bütün to decision makers, as mentioned above. You will create your company's de out of the way de perspective and make your
strategies in this direction, or you will experience the classic processes in your initiative. Small companies in this view, so the,
insider şirket point of view is necessary for every company without exception, outside the third, that is the point of view. The
insider view is the perspective that leads all companies to failure. Aç from the outside to the third eye aç you need to produce a
strategic perspective. From the outside, you are going to go outside your company first of all in the way you look at the 3rd
. You
will look for answers to the questions of customers, ın What kind of new product, new service or new business model can I
meet? M. The innovative answer you found is also known as innovation. In this approach, you will try to see everything about
your business from the eyes of the custom…,, IF ONLY , I HAVE HAD ANY THİRD EYE NEARBY ME BEFORE AND WHİLE I
HAVE WRİTTEN THİS ARTİCLE…
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https://www.gpfi.org/sites/default/files/documents/2017_g20_financial_inclusion_action_plan.pdf
(1) G20:G-7:Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States. The EU+12: Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, China, India,Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey. http://g20.org.tr
(2) The BRIC: of Brazil, Russia, India and China
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(8) Baybars ALTUNTAŞ is also Co-chair of the Washington DC- based Global Business Angels Network (GBAN), Vice
President of the Brussels-based European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and Early Stage Market
Players (EBAN), President of the Business Angels Association of Turkey (TBAA), the World Entrepreneurship Forum
Ambassador to Turkey and the Balkan countries, and President of Deulcom International Inc. Star of the Turkish version of the
television show Dragons’ Den / Sharks Tank. Recipient of the European Trade Association of Business Angels (EBAN) award
for the Best Individual in Europe Globally Engaging with the Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in 2014 (Ireland), 2015
(Netherlands), 2016 (Portugal), 2017 (Spain) and 2018 (Bulgaria). The only entrepreneur to be granted a personal audience
with former President Obama at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington DC. Developer of the world-
renowned entrepreneurship theory, the Altuntas Start-up Compass Theory, researched by Sheffield University and used in
numerous MBA programs. Appointed as JCI Ambassador, following Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United
Nations. Profiled regularly by leading international media such as CNN International, Bloomberg, BBC. A co-author of Planet
Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum's Guide to Business Success Around the World, published by Wiley (2013).
Author of Off the Bus, Into a Supercar! How I Became a Top TV Star and Celebrated Investor, published by Balboa Press
(2014) and translated into Chinese, Croatian, Albanian, and Macedonian. http://baybarsaltuntas.com/eng/biyografi.php
(9) https://m.bianet.org/bianet/siyaset/198119-ekonomik-buyume-nedir-ne-degildir
(10) The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington,
D.C.) The IFC is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to
encourage private-sector development in developing countries. IFC is working with partners to establish principles for “Impact
Investing”. A strong private sector is indispensable to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Since 1956, IFC
has leveraged $2.6 billion in capital to deliver more than $265 billion in financing for businesses in developing countries
https://www.ifc.org
(11) London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is an international markets infrastructure business. LSEG operates an open
access model, offering choice and partnership to customers across all of its businesses. Through its platforms, LSEG offers
market participants, unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets. The Group also plays a vital economic and social role,
enabling companies, including SMEs, to access funds for growth and development. https://www.lseg.com/
(12) The International Science Parks Association (IASP) is to be the global network for science parks and areas of innovation,
and to drive growth, internationalisation and effectiveness for members. IASP an independent, non-profit, non-governmental
organisation in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. IASP assist the
development of new parks and areas of innovation. IASP a worldwide membership-based association. https://www.iasp.ws
(13) The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) was created in 1995 Switzerland in Geneva. Through
its wide range of activities, WAIPA provides the opportunity for investment promotion agencies (IPAs) to network and exchange
best practices in investment promotion. WAIPA has always dedicated, and continues to dedicate, time and effort towards
building the human resources capacity of its Member agencies. The objectives of WAIPA are to promote and develop
understanding and cooperation amongst IPAs, to access to data sources, to share country and regional experiences in
attracting foreign investment and enhancing outward investments http://www.waipa.org
(14) EBAN is the pan-European representative for the early stage investor gathering over 150 member organizations more than
50 countries today. Established in 1999 by a group of pioneer angel networks in Europe with the collaboration of the European
Commission and EURADA, EBAN represents a sector estimated to invest 7.5 billion Euros a year and playing a vital role in
Europe’s future, notably in the funding of SMEs. EBAN dedicated to set professional standards, training, and certification,
benchmarking, research and networking with peers, lobbying, raising awareness and capacity building, across-border
syndication and co-investment support. www.eban.org/
(15) ABAN is a pan African non-profit association founded to support the development of early stage investor networks. ABAN
began as a consortium of independent investor networks including the Lagos Angels Network (LAN), Cameroon Angel Network
(CAN), Ghana Angel Network (GAIN), Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), Silicon Cape (Cape Town İnitiative) and supported
by the European Business Angel Network (EBAN). ABAN’s mission is to help quantum leap early stage investing in Africa by
providing the support, networking opportunities and essential resources to Africa’s Angel Investing Networks needed to
maximise their impact. https://vc4a.com/african-business-angel-network
(16) MENA Business Angel Network (MBAN) initiative started in UAE in June 2014. This initiative is responding to the growing
interest in start-ups by Business Angels and early stage investors in the MENA region and their desire to find the best modality
to manage their investments and guarantee the best return.. The MENA region needs to pay attention to setting up the right
structure and rules for Angel and early-stage Investing, in order to have a vibrant, healthy and promising entrepreneurship
ecosystem. Angel and early-stage Investors are well established in Europe and globally, with billions of Euros invested annually
through the various Angel Network Groups. www.m-ban.org/
(17) ANGEL INVESTOR: It is a personal investor who invests in new enterprises which have high risk and high growth potential
and who support capital in the beginning phase. Although they receive shares from the initiative, they usually offer individual
support in the areas they are related to. Apart from financial reasons, personal reasons also affect the investment decisions of
angel investors. It is called “exit” for an entrepreneur or his partners to make an exit from the enterprise he is a shareholder at
the most appropriate time, ie to sell his business. For initiatives, this could be the sale of the initiative to strategic buyers or to
the public. http://itugirisim.org/girisimci-sozlugu/
(18) The Business Angels Association – Turkey (TBAA) is an nonprofit organization whose mission is to stimulate the exchange
of knowledge and best practices in the field of global angel capital financing for high growth and innovative startups. Based in
Istanbul, the TBAA was formed by business angels to create an international community of business angel networks and
leaders for the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship through the financing of high growth start-up companies with the
support of business angels worldwide. The primary mission of the TBAA is to raise awareness of the importance and practice of
8. business angel investment, stimulate the exchange of best practices in angel investing, and enhance the development of cross-
border angel investinghttps://melekyatirimcilardernegi.org/
(19) Forum, a chair of the president, a topic that concerns the society, the audience of different groups in the order of speech
by taking the order of speech is called a forum.MMM First, the President explains the issue to the participants with positive and
negative aspects. The audience speaks their opinions by taking the floor. While the Forum is not considered to be a form of
collective debate itself, it allows the audience to think with a more active and different perspective on the subject. It includes the
characteristics of the panel type. The difference is that at the end of the conversation, the audience also participate in the
discussion and declare their ideas.
(20)The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will
improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.The OECD provides a forum in which governments can
work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what
drives economic, social and environmental change. OECD measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We
analyse and compare data to predict future trends. OECD iset international standards on a wide range of things, from
agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. http://www.oecd.org
(21)The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) CGAP works to make financial services meet the needs of poor
people.The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor is an independent think tank dedicated to financial inclusion. Through work, it
seek to empower poor people to capture opportunities and build resilience through financial services. CGAP test, learn and
develop innovative solutions through practical research and active engagement with our partners on building responsible and
inclusive financial systems that help people move out of poverty, protect their gains and advance global development goals
https://www.cgap.org/
(22) The SME Finance Forum works to expand access to finance for small and medium businesses. The Forum operates a
global membership network that brings together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance
institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation, and promote the growth of SMEs. http://www.smefinanceforum.org
(23) The World Bank Group, With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations,
the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and
build shared prosperity in developing countries. The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and
knowledge for developing countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity,
and promoting sustainable development. https://www.worldbank.org
(24) IFC—a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development
institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. The Bank Group has set two goals for the world to
achieve by 2030: end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in every country. https://www.ifc.org
(25) Innovative financial inclusion means improving access to financial services for poor people through the safe and sound
spread of new approaches. G20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion aim to help create an enabling policy and
regulatory environment for innovative financial inclusion. The enabling environment will critically determine the speed at which
the financial services access gap will close for the more than two billion people currently excluded. These principles for
innovative financial inclusion derive from the experiences and lessons learned from policymakers throughout the world,
especially leaders from developing countries. http://www.gpfi.org
(26) Eskişehir Technology Development Zone (ETGB) is the managing director of Anadolu Technology Research Park Inc.
(ATAP Inc.) The main objectives of Eskişehir Technology Development Zone are; to produce technological information in order
to compete in the international arena and to export-oriented production, to develop innovation in products and production
methods, to increase product quality and standards, to increase efficiency, to reduce production costs, to commercialize
technological information, to support technology intensive production and entrepreneurship In order to ensure the adaptation of
new and advanced technologies, to create investment opportunities in technology intensive areas, to help technology transfer,
to provide cooperation with universities, research institutions and organizations, to provide high / advanced technology and to
provide technological infrastructure to accelerate the entry of foreign capital to the country with the support of the United Nations
Development Science and Technology Fund. was established. TGB manager ATAPI Inc. is the first company established in
Turkey https://www.atap.com.tr
(27) Example. https://wbaf2019.istanbul/upload/Startup-Handbook-2019.pdf
(28) The GFRS – Global Fund Raising Stage 2019 will essentially be a co-investment platform for angel investors, start-ups,
scale-ups and high-growth businesses. https://www.atap.com.tr/startuplar-icin-gfrs--kuresel-finansmana-ulasim-sahnesi-
2019