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Financial markets tend to be affected by political developments. As analysts' forecasts, market announcements, political and corporate news shape the expectations of investors, affect the stock markets. Reports prepared by international organizations are reviewed by investors and taken into account in investment decisions. The European Union, evaluates positive and negative developments in social and individual issues by presenting various progress reports on countries where the membership process. In today's communication age, it is expected that the positive and negative developments in the reports will affect the financial markets and investment decisions. Türkiye is in the category of developing countries and makes reforms to continue the process. Throughout the EU negotiation process, the European Commission publishes reports evaluating the performance of the candidate countries in the autumn months within the scope of the Copenhagen criteria. Are European Union progress reports taken into account by capital markets like financial reports? In study, the answer to the question mentioned was sought. The purposes of the study are to investigate whether the European Union progress (country) reports are priced in the Turkish capital markets. By using the daily MSCITürkiye stock index data, the reaction of the investors to the reports in the 2005-2022 periods was determined by the event analysis method. According to the findings of the paper, while 8 reports did not have a significant effect on the stock market index, statistically significant abnormal returns were observed in 9 reports. Therefore, the result of the study shows that progress (country) reports are taken into account while making investment decisions and priced in Turkish capital markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people via the internet. Capital Markets Board has regulated equity-based crowdfunding in Communique III-35/A.1. Equity-based crowdfunding offers investors a share of the profits or return of the business they are helping to fund. Equity-based crowdfunding allows contributors to become shareholder of the company and equity owners receive a share of the profits in the form of a dividend. The new regulation regarding crowdfunding provides an exemption from the preparation of prospectus or an issuance certificate. Collecting money from the public through crowdfunding shall be carried out by the crowdfunding platforms that are authorized by the Capital Markets Board. Communique III-35/A.1 regulates the principles and procedures applicable to crowdfunding platforms, new shares which can be created by means of a capital increase, share transfers, maximum funding limits of each funder or the limits of the money to be collected to the fund by project owners etc. This article offers information and observations about this regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Turkey, in recent years, capital market is constantly continued to develop in the Turkish stock exchange, representing the market index has reached very high levels. Market index, it changes in all the sectors of the same sensitivity reaction. The purpose of this study, Borsa İstanbul (BIST), the sector of the indices, the market index of the susceptibility of the measure, and in this way the stock market, investors are more informed about investing in the direction in order to provide important findings is to expose. For this purpose, using monthly data for previous years, beta coefficients of the sector indices representing sectors in Borsa İstanbul were calculated and evaluated and the findings are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

24th January 1980 economic stability precautions and regulations such as Foreign Capital Legal Framework have encouraged the entrance of foreign capital into Turkey and helped foreign investors to invest in stocks listed on Istanbul Stock Exchange. As a result foreign investors have increased theri portion gradually in Turkish Capital Markets. In this study the effect of foreign investors trading over Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) is investigated by using the monthly data between the January 1997 and September 2007 also and causality relation between the variables are olso taken into account. Our results suggest that there is a long term relation between the foreign investors trading and ISE Trading volume and ISE National 100 index. Besides the variation in foreign investors buying have on effect over ISE Trading Volume and ISE National 100 index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increase in the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes such as earthquake, flood, storm and hurricane has been observed in recent years. Therefore, the amount of economic losses and the amount of insured losses of catastrophes has increased. For this reason, the needs of catastrophe risk financing and catastrophe risks mitigation of insurance and reinsurance firms have appeared clearer and several financial instruments have been developed to meet the needs. One of these instruments is catastrophe bonds. Insurance and reinsurance firms finance their catastrophe risks and also they transfer their catastrophe risks to capital market investors through catastrophe bonds issuing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]