Leaders In Payments Conference & Awards 2023 | MEA Finance | 13 September 2023 | The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai, Al Mamsha St - Jumeirah Beach Residence - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Activity around payments across our region has been fast and energetic in recent years and is set to remain the same for some time to come.

Digitisation and technology, regulators and governments, standardisation and competition, fintechs and non-financial institutions, global circumstances and consumer demand have all, individually or collectively been pushing the rate at which payments are evolving.

We saw that our region has been largely resilient to the numerous challenges currently facing the world, with many local economies coping better with the stresses than many of their international counterparts. This has meant that in the development of payments, there have been fewer brakes on the wheels speeding along the payments rails, helping the region keep pace with, even pull alongside other world centres.

Likewise, the region’s banking and finance sectors performed healthily, even robustly, helping to boost them purposefully toward their digitisation and technologically supported destinies.

Nearly the whole region is set up and primed for innovation. Key economies in the region are enacting policies and providing incentives to encourage the adoption of technology. This is clearly evident in the banking and finance sectors of the region, where we appear to be experiencing an era of growth for the technology companies servicing these sectors.

As all generations of clients and customers become increasingly familiar with new techniques, the beneficial conveniences and the more flexible options that digitisation brings them, this era of growth looks set continue.

2023 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Infosys Finacle
• Swift

SILVER SPONSOR:
• SmartStream