Imamoglu, Mayor of Istanbul meets with finance circles during his visit to London

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem IMAMOGLU paid a visit to London, the capital of world finance. While IMAMOGLU discussed with investors about opportunities to borrow loans for projects Istanbul underground system to be in the first place, this enabled him to meet with international finance circles and establish necessary contacts.

Ekrem IMAMOGLU who was elected as the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality this year, made a visit to the world finance capital London between 13-15 November. Imamoglu had also visited Berlin and Paris before London.

A banker who participated in the talks in London said,

“The mayor’s meetings included not only investors but financial circles, in general. On their visits to Turkey, global investors normally meet with the leaders, deputies of the non-ruling party and economy experts regarding investment issues. However this is the first time I see them establishing such relation with a mayor. IMAMOGLU made acquaintances with global financial markets. In the future, if he wants to go beyond mayor in politics, he will have been familiar with financial markets in advance and will have a good idea about the system etc. This is an important step”.

Imamoglu has visited Paris, Berlin and London in about a month’s time.

Some of the institutions Imamoglu had meeting wiith during his visit to London were: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Barclays, KKR, 3i, BlackRock, BlackStone, Standard Life Aberdeen, Bridgepoint Capital Group, Macquarie Infrastructure, Brookfield Asset Management , M&G Investments, IFM Investors, Carlyle Group, Global Infrastructure Partners.