Brokerage Services

Equity Markets

Trading at Borsa Istanbul made easy with Yapı Kredi Invest. The investment world requires fast and correct analytic results to obtain maximum return, therefore it is paramount to work with the best. Whether your interest is in equities, funds or certificates; Yapı Kredi’s expert investment team and strategies are with you.

Experienced staff of Yapi Kredi Invest is by your side around the clock to meet your needs and to navigate you correctly throughout Turkish financial markets with over 10 distribution channels.

Margin Trading

Securities credit is a loan which provides you leverage while investing in equities. Margin trading is subject to collateral rules set by Borsa Istanbul.

Day Trading

Day Trading is the easiest way to convert session changes in the equity market to opportunities.

Equity Lending & Borrowing

Yapı Kredi Invest is the market leading Turkish broker when it comes to offering equity lending and borrowing services.

The ownership of equities does not change during these transactions, and, all priority rights and/or dividend rights incurred during this period is borne by the lending party.

You can create additional income to your existing portfolio by lending out your securities by competitive market rates.

Short Selling

Short selling is defined as the act of selling the borrowed capital market instruments. Short-sell simply provides the investors the opportunity to take positions in down trending markets. Equities may be sold at current levels and replaced back at lower prices to take advantage of bear markets. Short selling, which is a very common product in the capital markets of developed countries, is served as an alternative solution by Yapi Kredi Invest to investors who want to benefit from the market dynamics.

Yapı Kredi Invest is the first Turkish broker to introduce short-sell facilities to local clients, supported by its experienced staff and wide lending pool.

Turkish Future and Option Markets

VIOP is the futures and options market established under Borsa Istanbul. Investors may trade futures and options as an alternative to traditional investment instruments.

Hedging strategies, arbitrage opportunities may be accomplished through underlying assets trading under VIOP. Futures contracts allow institutional and retial investors to open new positions or hedge their current positions according to their market expectations and risk perceptions. Investors may benefit from leverage, tax advantages and low transaction costs by trading VIOP instruments.

Through options, investors may diversify their portfolios and take a position parallel to their expectations.

Limited Custodian Service

It is limited to custodian of the capital market instruments authorized regarding transaction brokerage and portfolio brokerage and subject to brokerage services, custodian of portfolios managed for individual portfolio management, custodian of the capital market instruments issued via public offering regarding direct underwriting and best effort underwriting.

TradeBOX

TradeBOX is a fast and easy-to-use electronic trading platform which provides simultaneous and real-time access to a large variety of global futures and equities markets (i.e., stocks, commodities, indicies and currencies).

Investors may trade, invest and/or hedge in global futures and equity markets with access to real-time position-risk control mechanisms and detailed technical analysis both through online and mobile applications.

Futures Markets
Futures markets offer the opportunity to buy and sell futures contracts based on commodities (i.e., agriculture, precious metals, energy), currencies and indices (i.e., S&P, DAX)

For example; an investor who chooses to invest in Brent oil futures may purchase one contract by investing only 4,600 USD to initiate a position worth 35,000 USD. This contract provides approx. 1:8 leverage (35,000 / 4,600).

Portfolio Brokerage

FXBOX

Through FXBOX, our customers are provided the opportunity to trade currencies and precious metals 5/24. Investors may build their own strategies using a wide variety of technical indicators provided by FXBOX and take advantage of the leveraged world of FX through the platform’s simple and fast interface.

Advantages of the FX Markets:

Leverage: The opportunity to take large positions relative to the amount of capital invested (collateral).
Liquidity: FX markets are among the most liquid financial markets with a daily trading volume of nearly 5 trillion USD.
Easy Access: Investors may access the markets 5/24 with an internet connection.
Wide Variety of Orders: Investors may manage their positions using different order types such as “take-profit” and “stop-loss.”
Trading both sides of the market: In addition to long positions, investors may also take advantage of downward price moves by taking a short position.
Tight Spreads: The difference between the bid and ask prices remains low, thanks to high liquidity.

*FX markets in Turkey are regulated by the Capital Markets Board since 2011.

Investment Advisory

We believe asset allocation is an important part of a successful investment strategy. By sharing your investment ideas with our investment professionals, you can benefit from their sector experience. You may also get a personalised service tailored to your needs, investment objectives, risk threshold and expectations on projected return. Even when we are not instructed to make investment decisions on your behalf, our investment professionals and research team can provide guidance to help you develop an asset allocation strategy and investment guidelines.

Corporate Finance

Capital Markets Advisory

Being an alternative to bank credit, capital markets are considered as one of the primary funding sources of corporates around the world. Capital markets in Turkey have shown a great evolution due to the regulatory improvements and expansion of local institutional investor base. Further, growing interest of foreign institutional investors to Turkish assets offers new opportunities to Turkish companies in terms of debt and capital.

Yapı Kredi Invest Capital Markets Advisory is a one-stop shop that provides both local and international financing options to companies. With a highly experienced team, a broad distribution network and its innovative offerings, YKI is one of the most important players in the sector. As a result of UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş. and YKI merger in 2012, YKI team has gained more strength from this unique know-how and has become an integral part of an extensive network that offers a wide product portfolio across different jurisdictions.

Equity Capital Markets

In addition to its advantages in terms of financing, equity capital markets, a principal ground for companies to access capital, also add value to companies in terms of institutionalization. Being a pioneer in the market, YKI has acted as the leader or a consortium member in most of the important ECM deals in Turkey. Besides its wide local distribution network, YKI has a very strong international sales platform and also benefits from its organic ties with its global business partners in terms of global market investors that are the primary factors behind a successful ECM deal.

Debt Capital Markets

Local debt capital markets have experienced a rapid growth since the regulatory developments started in 2010. Since then, DCM products have become one of the primary components of the capital markets in Turkey. Thanks to ever-growing demand, the local DCM products continue to offer flexible funding alternatives to issuers and a lucrative investment opportunity for professional and retail investors.

YKI is a leading player in DCM products including “plain-vanilla” local bonds, Islamic bonds (lease certificates), covered bonds and asset-backed products. Once more, the strong local distribution and international platform supported by strategic partners’ sales teams in selected international deals enable YKI to market DCM products both locally and internationally. In 2016, YKI has completed DCM deals totalling TL 10.0 bn and USD 1.9 bn in local and international markets, respectively. Only in the first half of 2017, this figure was realized at TL 5.6 bn and USD 2.2 bn in the same order.

Electronic Trading

Yapı Kredi Invest Electronic Trading offers a comprehensive suite of premier execution solutions by leveraging local know-how and cutting-edge technology. The firm’s vast electronic trading resources, its access to superior liquidity, and its leading scale position in the capital markets makes YKI one-stop shop for all Borsa Istanbul products.

Products

Turkish regulatory bodies have completed significant changes on the equity and derivatives market over the last few years. In January 2014, Borsa Istanbul (BIST) signed a strategic agreement with NASDAQ OMX. On November 30, 2015, BIST upgrades its Equity platform to NASDAQ OMX technology (INET). This has created a big market structure change!

DMA

YKI provides DMA connectivity to Borsa Istanbul for all asset classes. YKI is continuously investing in building a high-speed and resilient network infrastructure based on best industry practices.
• Infrastructure is maintained in two different datacenters (Istanbul and Kocaeli) for a continuous and stable connection with Istanbul Stock Exchange.
• Exchange network connectivity is supported via dedicated fiber lines, the highest bandwidth connection supported by Istanbul Stock Exchange.

Algorithms

YKI signed a strategic agreement with a global technology provider to develop algorithms for Borsa Istanbul market structure. YKI offers execution algorithms in all asset classes with benchmarks including arrival, volume participation and close.

Colocation

YKI offers co-location services in Borsa Istanbul including hosting and market access. YKI offers ultra-low latency market access gateway (MAG) to access Equities and Futures at Borsa Istanbul via FIX. In terms of latency,

Research

Domestic and foreign economic and political developments play significant roles for determining the value of each asset class. Moreover, industry fundamentals coupled with competitive positioning of companies are the major drivers of equity valuation. Thus, macro and micro developments need to be monitored closely by experts in order to maximize risk-adjusted returns. High volatility at Turkish capital markets creates opportunities for investors and the main goal of Yapı Kredi Research is exploit these market inefficiencies through vigirous and diligent research process to generate alpha for its clients.

Yapı Kredi Invest provides research services to individual and corporate clients with an experienced and dedicated team of professionals. Our analysts incorporate macroeconomic data with industry and company-specific developments and prepare comprehensive sector and company analysis and reports. These reports include financial projections and strategic analysis of our analysts after through and detailed analysis of financial statements as well as meeting with company managements.

Corporate Access

In the investment community, it is a paramount to have access to reliable information and to stay connected with corporates at all times. Our corporate access department creates tailor made solutions, investment manager and corporate executives together. While investors get a chance to acquire the most vital information from the first hand, corporates bring themselves forth on an international scale. Investor conferences, global roadshows, group meetings or one on one meetings; our corporate access team intends to realize this synergy at every step along the way.

Yapı Kredi Invest Corporate Events
Turkish Equities Conferences
Company Roadshows
Reverse Roadshows & Site Visits
Analyst Roadshows
Power Meeting Series

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