Searcher
Deniz Ergun
Deniz Ergun
BBVA Research - Senior Economist

Deniz Ergun works as an Economist at Garanti BBVA since February 2014. She holds a PhD in Law &Economics (Magna Cum Laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Bologna. During her studies, she also worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Hamburg. She completed her Masters in Economics in Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg-Germany. During her master studies she worked as a trainee at HSBC Trinkaus Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft/Düsseldorf between 2008-2009. She holds a BA degree in Economics from Koc University, Istanbul.

Her current responsibilities include the analysis of financial systems, financial stability, regulatory and country risk issues including financial system modelling.

Latest publications

The weekly growth of FX-adjusted credits continued to decelerate in the first week of September from 0.6% to 0.2% due to commercial credits in the overall sector and consumer credits of private banks, as has been happening since mid-August.
The weekly growth of FX-adjusted credits continued to decelerate in the last week of August from 0.9% to 0.6% due to commercial credits in the sector and consumer credits of private banks. Total credits’ 4 week average trend fell to 0.4%.
The slowdown in credit growth started to become more pronounced towards the end of 2Q24 with tight monetary policy and more restrictive macroprudential measures. TL and FC credit growth levels came below the regulatory thresholds.