Unprecedented results for the Dubai International Financial Center in 2025

His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, affirmed today that the performance of the Dubai International Financial Center in 2025 was exceptional, like the rest of the sectors in the UAE’s national economy. It achieved annual growth in the number of active registered companies by 28%, reaching more than 8,844 companies, and an increase in the center’s annual net profits by 28%.

His Highness said in his official account on the “X” platform: “The performance of the Dubai International Financial Center in 2025 was exceptional, like the rest of the sectors in our national economy, as it achieved annual growth in the number of active registered companies by 28% to reach more than 8,844 companies, and an increase in the center’s annual net profits by 28%.”

His Highness continued: “The center hosts 1,677 companies in the field of financial technology and artificial intelligence, an increase of 35%, more than 500 wealth and asset management companies, an increase of 22%, 1,289 entities linked to family businesses, an increase of 61%, and 50,000 specialists working in the best and most advanced work environment in the world.”

His Highness concluded by saying: “The directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum are to redouble efforts, unify energies, and focus on the huge expansions that he launched for the financial center worth 100 billion dirhams, so that Dubai remains at the forefront of global financial centers, as His Highness wants.”