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The Future of Finance in the UAE
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Explore the future of finance in the UAE: Insights on market trends, regulatory frameworks, and success stories for finance professionals and investors.
What you’ll learn
- Understand UAE financial services market;
- learn about the key trends in the sector; gain practical understanding of local regulatory framework;
- discover success stories of UK companies entering the market.
Description
Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring The Future of Finance in the UAE, where we’ll dive into the dynamic financial services ecosystem reshaping the UAE. With the UAE’s rapid evolution into a global finance leader, this session will provide valuable insights for businesses, investors, and financial professionals.
Speakers
Ali Hassan
Consultant, Senior Representative Global Markets, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Authority
In his current role, Mr. Hassan supports the CEO and CBDO in developing and promoting the asset management, banking, capital markets and insurance sectors and the Centre’s ecosystem for innovation, multi-national companies and professional service providers, in line with the Centre’s business strategies. He plays an active role in client development, promoting and enhancing awareness of DIFC’s competitiveness and positioning regionally and globally.
Mr. Hassan brings vast regulatory knowledge and commercial experience to his position at DIFC Authority, having supervised and authorized a diverse range of businesses, including exchanges, trading platforms, asset management, investment banking and brokerage operations with experience in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr Hassan has a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of London and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1999. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment in the UK.
Sofiya Oshchebska
International Markets Advisor, ORN Manager, Department for Business and Trade | British Embassy Dubai
Sofiya is an international trade, development, and impact investment professional, with 10 years of experience. Currently Sofiya serves as an International Markets Advisor within the DBTs International Markets Team and manages the DBT’s Overseas Referral Network for the Middle East and Pakistan Region. Sofiya is passionate about promoting sustainable and impact-focused investment approaches and supporting entrepreneurs. If you are a UK company and need support with entering one of 11 markets in the Middle East and Pakistan region, please reach out to Sofiya and she will be able to provide you more information about the resources available.
Barry O'Donohoe
CEO, Raidiam
Barry O'Donohoe is the co-founder of Raidiam, a company specializing in creating the world’s smartest data-sharing ecosystems. With 20 years of international experience in financial security and payment systems IT, Barry is passionate about delivering digital change initiatives that result in transformational positive outcomes for multi-sector businesses and their customers.
Barry has been a key player in the delivery of world-leading Open Banking initiatives globally, shaping policies, standards, and their architecture and design. His wealth of experience spans lead architect and senior consultant roles across financial, government, healthcare, and telecoms sectors.
He has supported numerous domestic and global businesses in maximizing commercial opportunities and achieving regulatory compliance, particularly within the context of GDPR and PSD2. As a technical hands-on specialist, Barry combines commercial insight with a keen understanding of modern InfoSec threats, and risk and compliance best practices across complex fintech and retail banking.