The digital revolution changes the rules of financing and investment and development partnerships

A group of decision makers, international finance experts and financial technology pioneers discussed during several dialogue sessions held within the activities of the first day of the World Government Summit 2025, in Dubai, which will be held from 11 to 13 February, the prospects for future financing solutions and promising opportunities in this sector.

The dialogue sessions were preceded by an opening speech to His Excellency Sonyai Sevandon, Prime Minister of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, in which he stressed the importance of countries exploiting all their economic components, and seizing opportunities to achieve growth and development.

Deepening knowledge and providing investments
Sevandon pointed out the importance of the role played by the global government of governments in promoting international partnerships, especially in the future financing solutions sectors and the advancement of “economics mechanics”, especially in developing countries, which requires deepening knowledge, providing investments, enhancing transparency, and achieving the maximum benefit from these mechanisms that rise In countries, as these countries should develop their general and comprehensive vision of development.

Technology and financing rules
The session “How will technology be rewriting the funding rules?”, How to work emerging technologies to make a fundamental change in the financing models, with a focus on innovations such as coding and the digital financial system, in which Andrew Toure, the regional president of “Visa” in the middle and east region, participated in the Central and East region Europe, the Middle East, Africa, CEO Lubukite, CEO of MBSA, Edalbero Flores, founder and CEO of Cukaki.

Andrew Toure said that the rapid development of digital platforms and new financial tools can provide a promising movement of economic activities, which also requires investment in innovation and digital safety.

While Citio Lubukite talked about the tools of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology and the revolution in the financing and digital financial services sector, indicating that the future will carry major developments that will change the way of making financial transfers, and affects specialized platforms that will provide promising solutions for the global economic system and financial markets, which will be created Quality and innovative projects in many sectors such as communications, technology, environment, agriculture, manufacturing, and others.

As for Adalbero Flores, he referred to the differences between countries, and he said: Many residents of developing countries do not have bank accounts, and considered them a matter of time, which requires governments, in addition to focusing on digital opportunities and promising sectors of multiple financial tools and accelerating digital transformation, working to keep pace with people to this Variables.

Integration and development
In a session entitled “How can the integration between governance and development financing be achieved?”, Dr. Othman Denie, Vice President of the World Bank Group for the Middle East and North Africa, and David Livingstone, CEO of Customer Affairs at City Group, discussed the need to provide capital as a worker The main to support innovation and entrepreneurship and enhance the economy, and reduce the gap between traditional and digital financial services, to enable individuals and societies to achieve welfare and development.

Othman Denie said that social empowerment is a noble choice for governments and financiers, and the global summit of governments embodies this option and enhances the optimal government partnerships and practices.

He added, technical and digital developments help countries achieve financial inclusion, modernize services, develop the economy, create job opportunities and expand the scope of investment, which in turn requires the modernization of legislation and regulations.

While David Levingston stressed that governments put many economic plans to improve services and turn them into digital, and said, “There are many financing programs that we do, but the worst thing we can do is financing the wrong project, there are always risks, but there are many benefits, therefore We always have to risk, both about large financing or mini -financing models. “

He called for the importance of expanding social and economic financing categories according to the rules of development, confidence -building, and finding integration between government capital and capital in international institutions.