Dubai to bring 850 finance leaders together for five-day global summit

More than 85 events will cover FinTech, private capital, tokenisation and wealth

Last updated: September 08, 2026 | 13:01

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Dubai: More than 850 speakers from banking, asset management, private markets, FinTech, policymaking and sustainable finance will gather in Dubai in November for the inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week.

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The five-day programme, led by Dubai International Financial Centre, will run from November 2 to 6 and include more than 85 events, 12 signature forums and 14 stages across Dubai.

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Participants will be able to follow discussions spanning six core areas including FinTech, tokenisation, Islamic finance, family wealth, sustainable finance and private capital.

The programme is being held under the theme “Finance Reimagined: Where Innovation Meets Policy and Purpose”.

Banking and FinTech take centre stage

The Dubai FinTech Summit on November 2 and 3 will serve as the anchor event, bringing together leaders from banking, capital markets and financial technology.

Confirmed headline speakers include Nicolas Moreau, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Asset Management, Noel Quinn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Julius Baer, Dr Shanu S.P. Hinduja, Chair of S.P. Hinduja Banque Privée, and Fatih Karahan, Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye.

Private capital, wealth and tokenisation

Other events during the week will focus on sustainable investment, private capital, Islamic finance, institutional wealth and digital assets.

The Future Sustainability Forum will take place on November 3, while IPEM Future 2026 will bring together private capital leaders and allocators on the same day.

The Future Islamic Finance Forum and the Deal Catalyst Fixed Income Alternatives Conference are both scheduled for November 4, with the latter focused on private and structured credit strategies.

The Dubai Family Wealth Summit will follow on November 5, bringing together family principals and advisers to discuss succession, governance and long-term allocation.

The Future Tokenisation Forum, also on November 5, will focus on tokenised markets and next-generation financial infrastructure.

Wider programme across investment and insurance

Additional events will include the Capital Exchange CIO Investment Leadership Programme on November 2 and 3, Gulf Transition and Sustainable Finance 2026 on November 2 and GAIP InsureTek Dubai on November 4 and 5.

Nivetha Dayanand

Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand. Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu. She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy. An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation. Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events. Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.

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