Dubai FinTech Summit 2025 | 45MM+88F - Al Sufouh 1 - Dubai

About Dubai FinTech Summit 2025

Explore a future where finance is accessible, inclusive, and empowering. Organised by the Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai FinTech Summit returns for its third edition in 2025. Witness history as global leaders, innovators, and policymakers converge to share insights and transformative ideas marking the beginning of a new era in the FinTech industry.

Experience the pulse of financial innovation at Dubai FinTech Summit 2025. Spanning five dynamic stages, including three plenary arenas and two innovation platforms, DFS assembles the brightest minds to dissect the most pressing topics in finance today. Engage with over 300 luminaries, including central bank governors and C-suite leaders from top global institutions, as they navigate through core themes of Innovation, Inclusion, Impact, Investment, and Integration. Discover the future as we explore everything from AI and blockchain to sustainable investing and digital economies. Each session promises a gateway to the next wave of financial transformation.

Speakers

Sundararaman Ramamurthy

MD & CEO - BSE Ltd BSE India

Eun-bo Jeong

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Korea Exchange (KRX) Korea Exchange

Tony O. Elumelu

Chairman of Heirs Holdings & UBA Group, Founder of Tony Elumelu Foundation UBA Group

H. E. Hadi Badri

Chief Executive Officer at Dubai Economic Development Corporation, Board Member at Commercial Bank of Dubai Commercial Bank of Dubai

Ashok Vaswani

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Kotak Mahindra Bank Kotak Mahindra Bank

Ahmed Abdelaal

Group Chief Executive Officer at Mashreq Mashreq

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Jean-Claude Kassi Brou

Governor at Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) Central Bank of West African States

H. E. Adam Glapiński

Governor at National Bank of Poland National Bank of Poland

Vineet Mittal

Founder & Chairman at Avaada Group Avaada

Arif Amiri

Chief Executive Officer at DIFC Authority DIFC Authority

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Paytm Paytm

Arik Shtilman

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Rapyd Rapyd

Prof. Dr. Göksel Aşan

President at Finance Office of Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Finance Office of Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye

Lori Schwartz

Global Head of Treasury Services at J.P. Morgan Payments J.P. Morgan

Stefan Lindstrom

Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Digitalization & New Technologies Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland

Richard Teng

Chief Executive Officer at Binance Binance

Avital Pardo

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Pagaya Pagaya

Saker Nusseibeh

Chief Executive Officer at Federated Hermes Limited Federated Hermes

Renat Bekturov

Governor at Astana International Financial Centre Astana International Financial Centre

Javier Garcia-Carranza

Group Senior Executive Vice President at Banco Santander S.A. Banco Santander

PAUL KAYROUZ

Chief Fintech Officer at Central Bank of the UAE Central Bank of the UAE

Javier Garcia-Carranza

Group Senior Executive Vice President at Banco Santander S.A. Banco Santander

Joseph Ziolkowski

Founder and CEO at Relm Insurance Relm Insurance

Bonnie Y Chan

Chief Executive Officer at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

YASHISH DAHIYA

Chairman & Group CEO at PB Fintech Ltd PB Fintech Limited

Charlotte Crosswell

Chair at Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology

Navin Gupta

Chief Executive Officer at Crystal Intelligence Crystal Intelligence

Ahmed Galal Ismail

Chief Executive Officer at Majid Al Futtaim – Holding Majid Al Futtaim Retail

Yazeed AlDomaiji

Chief Executive Officer at Wamid Wamid

Justin Grooms

Chief Executive Officer at Bolt Bolt

Harry Gill

Chairman at Pay10 Pay10

Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi

CEO and Board member at Astra Tech Astra Tech

Shrini Viswanath

Co-Founder at Upstox Upstox

Alex Manson

Chief Executive Officer at SC Ventures SC Ventures by Standard Chartered

Ashish Mehrotra

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Northern Arc Northern Arc Capital

Kfir Godrich

Chief Innovation Officer at BlackRock BlackRock

Vishal Garg

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Better.com Better

Siobhan Byron

EVP Universal Banking at Finastra Finastra

Tanyapong Thamavaranukupt

Co-President at Ascend Money ASCEND MONEY GROUP

Dawn Miller

Chief Executive Officer at Lloyd's Americas Lloyd’s

Nick Cherney

Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson Investors Janus Henderson Investors

Joseph Abraham

Group Chief Executive Officer at The Commercial Bank (P.S.Q.C.) Commercial Bank

Naveen Kukreja

Co-Founder at Paisabazaar Paisabazaar

Fadi Ghandour

Executive Chairman at Wamda Wamda

Tom Oldham

Group Chief Financial Officer at Monzo Monzo Bank

Ivan John E. Uy

Secretary of DICT of the Republic of the Philippines DICT

Sachin Patel

Managing Director, Head of Specialty Finance EMEA at Neuberger Berman Neuberger Berman

Hashim Shawa

Chairman at Bank of Palestine Bank of Palestine

Stefan Klestil

General Partner at Speedinvest SpeedInvest

Charlie Walker

Deputy CEO at London Stock Exchange plc London Stock Exchange Group

Richard Lui

Anchor & Journalist at NBC News / MSNBC NBC News

Diana Guzmán

Chair of the Prudence Foundation & Chief Sustainability Officer at Prudential plc Prudential plc

Mario Nobile

Director General at Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) Agency for Digital Italy - AGID

James Ferrarelli

Executive Vice President & COO at State Street Global Advisors State Street Global Advisors

Michael Eisenberg

General Partner at Aleph Aleph

Dong He

Deputy Director of the MCM at International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund

Jigar Patel

Managing Director - Global Head of FinTech & Internet at Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley

Raman Bhatia

Group Chief Executive Officer at Starling Bank Starling Bank

Michael Ruttledge

Chief Information Officer & Head of Enterprise Technology and Security at Citizens Bank Citizens Financial Group

Kalyanaraman Rajaraman

Chairperson at IFSCA International Financial Services Centres Authority

Max Floetotto

Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company

Thomas Pramotedham

Chief Executive Officer at Presight Presight

Talal Tabbaa

Co-Founder and CEO at CoinMENA COINMENA

David E Rutter

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at R3 R3

Mark Chahwan

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sarwa SARWA

Eynat Gue

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Papaya Global Papaya Global

Abdullah AbdulKareem Al-Tuwaijri

Chief Executive Officer - Consumer, Private, and Digital Banking at Boubyan Bank Boubyan Bank

Abdullah Zahran Al Hinai

Chief Executive Office at National Bank of Oman National Bank of Oman

Joseph H. L. Chan

Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury at The Government of Hong Kong SAR Hong Kong SAR Government

Anurag Sinha

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at OneCard OneCard

Kyle Boag

Managing Director- Regional Head of GPS MENAT at HSBC HSBC

John Caplan

Chief Executive Officer & Director at Payoneer Payoneer

JB Mackenzie

Vice President and General Manager, Futures and International at Robinhood Markets Robinhood

Wayne Huo

CEO of Amber Premium. Co-Founder of Amber Group Amber Group

Antoine Chemali

Chief Executive Officer at BNP Paribas Wealth Management Middle East and Africa BNP Paribas Wealth Management

Teddy Liu

Chief Executive Officer at JINGDONG coinlink JINGDONG Coinlink

Gaurav Kumar

Founder & MD at Yubi Yubi MENA

Mohammed Al-Othman

Chief Executive Officer of Consumer & Digital Banking at National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) National Bank of Kuwait (NBK)

Gbenga Ajayi

Partner at QED Investors QED Investors

Faisal Belhoul

Chairman at J&F Holdings J&F Holdings

Michael Faye

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at TapTap Send Taptap Send

Monica Brand Engel

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Quona Capital Quona Capital

JESSICA GOSNELL

Managing Partner, Co-Founder at Arch Arch

Ian Cramb

Chief Operating Officer at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) Union Bancaire Privée

Karmela Holtgreve

Deputy Head and Head of Operations at Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Bank for International Settlements – BIS

Monica Long

President at Ripple Ripple

Bryan Zhang

Co-Founder & Executive Director at CCAF, University of Cambridge University of Cambridge

Claire Davey

Head of Innovation and Emerging Risk at Relm Insurance, UK Relm Insurance

Bénédicte Nolens

Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong Centre at Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Bank for International Settlements – BIS

Emma Joyce

Chief Revenue Officer Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Eduard Müller

Executive Director at Financial Market Authority Financial Market Authority (FMA)

Dr. Jorgen Ouaknine

Group Head of Innovation and Digital Assets at Euroclear Euroclear

Nicholas Watts

Managing Director - Financials, Capital Markets & Crypto Research at Redburn Atlantic Redburn Atlantic

Chris Wehbé

Chief Executive Officer at Lendable Lendable

Sajit Vijayakumar

Chief Executive Officer at Infosys Finacle Infosys Finacle

Mohamed Al Marzooqi

Chief Executive Officer UAE at HSBC Bank Middle East Limited HSBC

Tushar Aggarwal

Founder & CEO at Stashfin Stashfin

Jonathan Lamb

Head Channels & Partnerships at Standard Bank Group Standard Bank Group

Noor Menai

President & CEO at CTBC Bank USA, Board Member at Chia Network, Advisory Board Member at Federal Reserve Bank of SF CTBC Bank

Abhinav Munshi

Founder and Managing Partner at Razor Capital Razor Capital

Mirna Sleiman

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Fintech Galaxy FINTECH GALAXY

Jane Witherspoon

Managing Editor - Middle East, Central Asia and South Caucasus at Euronews Euronews

Lenah Hassaballah

Editor at CNN Business Arabic CNN Business Arabic

Arjun Vir Singh

Partner & Global Head of Fintech at Arthur D. Little ARTHUR D. LITTLE

Natasha Turak

Correspondent at CNBC CNBC

Nader Albastaki

Managing Director at Dubai Future District Fund Dubai Future District Fund

Nawied Jabarkhyl

Senior Director at Head of International Media Relations at APCO APCO

Yousef Gamal El-Din

Host at You're in Business

Reece Merrick

Managing Director, Middle East & Africa at Ripple Ripple

Shahir Daya

Chief Technology Officer at Zafin ZAFIN

Otto Abasi Williams

VP, Regional Head and GM of MEA at PayPal PayPal

Liam Bennett

Deputy CTO at Claranet Claranet

Steven Wei

Deputy Director of Doctor of FinTech Program at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Salman Akhtar

CEO at AdalFi AdalFi

H.E Essa Kazim

Governor at DIFC DIFC

Sheikha Shamma

President & Chief Executive Officer at UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA) UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators

H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri

Cabinet Member & UAE Minister of Economy UAE Cabinet

H.E. Dr. Amna

Minister of Climate Change and Environment UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment

H.E. Nirmala Sitharaman

Minister of Finance & Minister of Corporate Affairs at Government of India Government of India

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder of LinkedIn & Co-Founder of Inflection AI, Co-Founder of Manas AI & Partner at Greylock Manas AI

Timothy Adams

President and Chief Executive Officer at Institute of International Finance (IIF) Institute of International Finance

H. E. Marko Primorac

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Minister of Finance

Gilles Roth

Minister of Finance, Luxembourg

Matthew Koder

President, Global Corporate & Investment Banking at Bank of America Bank of America

John Schindler

Secretary General at Financial Stability Board Financial Stability Board

Caroline Pham

Acting Chairman at U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Agenda

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM - Opening Remarks - Essa Kazim

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM - Keynote - Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

10:05 AM - 10:25 AM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Nirmala Sitharaman - MODERATOR: Richard Lui

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM - Opening Remarks - TBD

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM - Keynote - Bryan Zhang

10:25 AM - 10:45 AM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Timothy Adams - MODERATOR: Laura Buckwell

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Panel Discussion - Talal Tabbaa - Navin Gupta

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Matthew Koder - MODERATOR: Nawied Jabarkhyl

11:05 AM - 11:45 AM - Future of Finance - Panel Discussion - Ashok Vaswani - Alex Manson - Dr. Bernd van Linder - MODERATOR: Jane Witherspoon

11:20 AM - 12:00 PM - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Panel Discussion - Dong He - Emma Joyce - Teddy Liu - MODERATOR: Bénédicte Nolens

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Dawn Miller - MODERATOR: Laura Buckwell

12:05 PM - 12:25 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Amna bint Abdullah Al Dahak - MODERATOR: Natasha Turak

12:20 PM - 1:00 PM - Global Investment Horizon - Panel Discussion - Sajit Vijayakumar - Ian Cramb - Wayne Huo - Nick Cherney - MODERATOR: Emma Joyce

12:25 PM - 12:45 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Tony O. Elumelu - MODERATOR: Laura Buckwell

12:45 PM - 1:25 PM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Panel Discussion - Kitipong Urapeepatanapong - Ahmed Abdelaal - MODERATOR: Nawied Jabarkhyl

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Arik Shtilman - MODERATOR: Arjun Vir Singh

1:25 PM - 1:45 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Reid Hoffman - MODERATOR: Richard Lui

1:45 PM - 2:05 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Abdullah Bin Touq Al Marri - MODERATOR: Natasha Turak

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM - Global Investment Horizon - Panel Discussion - Fadi Ghandour - Monica Brand Engel - Faisal Belhoul - Brendan Dickinson - MODERATOR: Nader Albastaki

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Fireside Chat - Vijay Shekhar Sharma - MODERATOR: Laura Buckwell

2:25 PM - 2:45 PM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Fireside Chat - Sundararaman Ramamurthy - MODERATOR: Jane Witherspoon

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Raman Bhatia - MODERATOR: Arjun Vir Singh

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Kfir Godrich - MODERATOR: Nawied Jabarkhyl

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM - Opening Remarks - Arif Amiri

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - Global Investment Horizon - Fireside Chat - H. E. Gilles Roth, MODERATOR: Richard Lui

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Fireside Chat - Prof. Dr. Göksel Aşan, Renat Bekturov

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM - Fireside Chat - Rajesh Nambiar, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Panel Discussion - Abdullah Zahran Al Hinai, Abdullah Abdulkareem Al-Tuwaijri, Mohammed Al-Othman, MODERATOR: Jane Witherspoon

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM - Global Investment Horizon - Panel Discussion - Hamed Ali, Eun-bo Jeong, Bonnie Y Chan, Charlie Walker, MODERATOR: Richard Lui

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM - Global Economic Trends - Panel Discussion - Vishal Garg, Shrini Viswanath, Avital Pardo, MODERATOR: Emma Joyce

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM - Fireside Chat - John Schindler, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Panel Discussion - Stefan Lindstrom, Karmela Holtgreve

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Antoine Chemali, James Ferrarelli, MODERATOR: Jane Witherspoon

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Fireside Chat - Monica Long, MODERATOR: Natasha Turak

12:30 PM - 1:10 PM - Global Economic Trends - Panel Discussion - Tushar Aggarwal, Jigar Patel, Yashish Dahiya, MODERATOR: Max Flötotto

12:40 PM - 1:20 PM - Global Economic Trends - Panel Discussion - Charlotte Crosswell OBE, H. E. Hadi Badri, Joseph Ziolkowski, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din

1:10 PM - 1:50 PM - Global Investment Horizon - Panel Discussion - Yazeed AlDomaiji, Mario Nobile, Michael Ruttledge, Reece Merrick, MODERATOR: Jessie Gosnell

1:20 PM - 1:40 PM - Financial Innovation & Regulation - Fireside Chat - TBD

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Joseph Ziolkowski, MODERATOR: Lenah Hassaballah

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Ahmed Galal Ismail, MODERATOR: Jane Witherspoon

2:10 PM - 2:50 PM - Global Investment Horizon - Panel Discussion - Ashish Mehrotra, Michael Eisenberg, Stefan Klestil, Abhinav Munshi, MODERATOR: TBD

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM - Fireside Chat - Saker Nusseibeh, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM - Future of Finance - Fireside Chat - Justin Grooms, MODERATOR: Lenah Hassaballah

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM - Fireside Chat - Thomas Pramotedham, MODERATOR: Lenah Hassaballah

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Fireside Chat - David E. Rutter, MODERATOR: Emma Joyce

3:10 PM - 3:50 PM - Global Economic Trends - Panel Discussion - Eynat Guez, H.E. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din

3:30 PM - 4:10 PM - Global Economic Trends - Fireside Chat - Tom Oldham, JB Mackenzie

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM - Global Economic Trends - Panel Discussion - Noor Menai, Tanyapong Thamavaranukupt, Mark Chahwan, Mohamed Al Marzooqi, MODERATOR: Yousef Gamal El-Din