Global Money Transfer Summit 2018 | GMTS | 29 April 2018 | Dusit Thani Dubai, 133 Sheikh Zayed Road, Near Financial Centre Metro Station - Dubai UAE

GMTS is the most recognised conference in the money transfer industry.

The place where x-border payment industry leaders gather to examine the areas that are having the biggest impact on remittances.

GMTS-Dubai 2018 will bring together a global network of innovators, disruptors and established participants in the remittance industry. Join the stakeholder that are driving the world of the X-border payment industry and the financial services revolution in The Middle East, Central & South Asia and North Africa.

Remittances, a major source of revenue for the world’s poorest countries, are due to grow again this year after falling two years in a row. Official remittances, to developing countries, raised by 4.8% in 2017, reaching $450 billion. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, raised by 3.9 percent to $596 billion.

The total value of remittances by foreign workers in the UAE reached Dh78 billion during the first half of 2017, representing 48.5 per cent of the total balance of payments in the country in 2016 amounting to Dh160.8 billion.

According to the bank's data, Dh31.4 billion, or 77 per cent of the total of remittances of foreign workers in the country, were transferred through money exchange companies during the second quarter of the year, while 23 per cent, or Dh9.4 billion, were converted through banks.

2018 Speakers

Navin Gupta
Ripple

Jonathan Fishman
U.S. Treasury

Nik Mohamed Din Nik Musa
Bank Negara Malaysia

Fred de Rooij
De Nederlandsche Bank

Stéphane Mahieu
Financial Stability Board

Sebastian Plubins
Ria Money Transfer

Nelson Irizarry
Paykii

Norman Frankel
iCyber-Security

Kumar Gaurav
Cashaa

Annie Kumar
Nafex

2018 Sponsors

• RIA
• AXA
• paykii
• iDETECT

IN COLLABORATION WITH:
• FERG
• NMTA
• mamsb
• ARCPA
• ELECTRONIC MONEY