Nahyan bin Mubarak opens the annual Arqaam Capital conference on Wednesday

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DUBAI, 1st JUNE, WAM / His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, will next Wednesday open the 13th annual Arqaam Capital Conference for investors in the Middle East and North Africa region, which is hosted by Arqaam Capital over two days at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the Dubai International Financial Centre, with wide participation from regional and international investors, listed companies, policy makers, economists, and financial market leaders, to discuss the future of capital markets in the Middle East and North Africa region.

His Excellency will deliver the keynote speech at the opening session of the conference, presenting his vision on capital markets, investment flows, and the economic transformations taking place in the region, paving the way for discussions that will address the future of investment and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region.

The conference will be held this year under the slogan “From Flexibility to Market Leadership: Expanding the Scope of Capital Across the Middle East and North Africa,” at a time when regional markets are witnessing increasing interest from international investors, driven by continued economic diversification efforts, the expansion of capital markets, the growing activity of sovereign wealth funds, the boom in initial public offerings, and increasing cross-border investment flows.

The conference program includes the participation of senior executives and decision-makers from leading financial and economic institutions, including the Dubai Financial Market, the Bahrain Bourse, the Kuwait Stock Exchange, the Muscat Stock Exchange, ADNOC Drilling, ADEIS Holding, First Abu Dhabi Bank, TECOM Group, Dubai Residential REIT, Binghatti, and Shurooq Partners, in addition to a number of investment institutions and other leading listed companies.

Over two days, participants will discuss the most prominent opportunities, challenges and trends that shape the next stage of economic growth in the region, including the readiness of companies for initial public offerings, the development of Gulf stock exchanges, fixed income and sukuk markets, the employment of sovereign capital, transformations of the banking sector, the real estate sector, energy security, artificial intelligence, quantitative investment, and cross-border investment flows.

Riyad Meliti, CEO of Arqaam Capital, said: “The region has proven its ability to withstand, and the discussion today is focused on leadership and how to build, allocate, attract and export capital during the next decade. From the growing role of the region in global capital flows, to the increasing activity of public offerings and sukuk issuances in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, all the way to the structural reforms that are reshaping the region’s largest economies, expressing the company’s pride in hosting His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan will deliver the opening speech of the conference, and the conference agenda reflects the issues that are most important to investors today.”

The conference comes as a continuation of the success achieved by the 2025 edition, which witnessed the organization of more than 600 institutional meetings between investors and companies, with the participation of 90 listed companies with a total market value exceeding one trillion US dollars, in addition to 222 institutional investors representing 110 global investment institutions.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in the Dubai International Financial Centre, Arqaam Capital is a full-fledged institutional investment bank focusing on emerging and frontier markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

The company operates offices in four main markets: the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Lebanese Republic, which places it in a strategic location linking the countries of the Arabian Gulf, the Levant, and North Africa.

Arqaam Capital serves more than 1,500 institutional clients around the world, including sovereign wealth funds, global asset managers, family offices, corporations and pension funds. It also operates one of the largest investment research platforms in the region, with active coverage of more than 230 companies listed in the Middle East and North Africa markets.

Its services include asset management, stocks, fixed income instruments, investment banking, equity and debt capital markets, structured financing solutions, wealth management, electronic trading, and corporate finance, enhancing its role in linking global capital with promising investment opportunities in the region.