World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.