BAU Financial Research Center Opens

The BAU Financial Research and Application Center was opened with the participation of leading figures from the world of economics as well as many academics and students.

The opening also featured a panel titled "FINANCIAL CENTER: ISTANBUL", attended by Borsa Istanbul Chairman İbrahim Turhan, Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) Istanbul Branch Manager Haluk Ersoy and Banks Association of Türkiye (TBB) Secretary General Ekrem Keskin. The panel was moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deniz Gökçe, Head of the Department of International Finance at the BAU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Following the panel, held in the Fazıl Say Hall at the BAU Beşiktaş Campus, BFRC (Bahçeşehir University Financial Research and Application Center) was opened with a gong ceremony.

Speaking at the opening, BAU President Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın stated that with the opening of BFRC they had taken a step of great importance for the capital markets, and added:"With this center, which we have established to prepare and guide our students for the finance and capital markets and to offer them opportunities to gain experience, we at BAU have taken another new and important step in raising our educational standards ever higher. At our center, theoretical education will be supported with hands-on practice, more qualified human resources will be brought to the economy and financial markets, and by developing our students' knowledge, skills and abilities in risk management, resources will be provided for financial and academic data research. In this context, we are proud and delighted to open the Bahçeşehir University Financial Research and Application Center."

BFRC, which will provide academic support to projects aimed at making Istanbul a financial center and will offer training by experts in the field alongside its research, will also work on developing qualified human resources for the finance sector. Established within the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the center will be equipped with Bloomberg and Matriks data terminals, enabling real-time access to domestic and international markets, data transfer and analysis.

By analyzing macroeconomic data announced in both national and international markets, BFRC will inform the finance sector about developments in world markets and publish bulletins. Through bulletins issued regularly every month, research on the direction of the markets will be presented to stakeholders. The BAU Financial Research and Application Center (BFRC), which enables finance education, whose importance has grown with the efforts to make Istanbul a financial center and the establishment of Borsa Istanbul, to be delivered with a more qualified and better-equipped infrastructure, aims to contribute to the field through financial market research using its strong technical infrastructure and its Bloomberg and Matriks data terminals.

Another of the center's goals is to share with the public analyses that will guide the finance sector by providing the financial data, analyses, reports and economic expectation indices needed by the economy and finance sector. In this way, both national and international financial markets will be able to benefit from the center's outputs.