MANAMA, 9 April 2007 — The region’s top-level decision-makers and its experts will hold a strategic meeting here on May 2 to assess the future of Middle East’s financial services sector.
The inaugural “Middle East Financial Services Summit — Meeting the Challenge of Finance in a Global World”, will also explore the region’s economic growth, its investment opportunities its remaining challenges and risks, aside from the latest trends in the financial services and banking regulatory environment.
The summit, which is an unprecedented opportunity to network with the regional and global players who shape the Middle Eastern financial landscape, will debate on the future role of Islamic finance in the Middle East.
Discussions on private banking and wealth management, corporate governance & financial, including future of Gulf’s debt and equity capital markets will also be on the agenda.
Speakers include, among others, Niall Booker, chief executive and deputy chairman, HSBC Middle East; Rasheed Mohammed Al-Maraj, governor, Central Bank of Bahrain; Phillip Thorpe, chairman and chief executive, Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority; Mardig Haladjian, general manager, Financial Institutions Group, Moody’s; Adel El-Labban, CEO, Ahli United Bank’ Razi Fakih, CEO, HSBC Amanah; Bruno Daher, head of private banking for the Middle East, Credit Suisse and; Gilles Rollet, CEO, Middle East & Subcontinent Private Banking, ABN Amro.
