Interest in Istanbul Finance Center From Foreign Banks
As the realization of Istanbul Finance Center is becoming true,
the interest from various international lenders to secure a place
has also been increasing. Turkey's Ministry of Environment and
Urbanization is dealing with renewed interest from foreign banking
institutions seeking to secure a place in the Istanbul Finance
Center (IFC), after Turkey's Central Bank, along with the head
offices of the country's governing bodies of financial markets
and state-owned banks, became involved in the project. The
construction works for the complex located in Istanbul's
Atasehir district are already underway as lenders from the UK, the
Middle East and the Far East are applying to the Ministry for
office space to take part in the region's rising financial
services hub. At its core, the IFC complex will span over 2,500,000
square meters of land, comprising office space, residences, a
conference hall, a shopping mall and a
