Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is one of the world’s top financial centres, and the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, an area comprising over 72 countries with an approximate population of 3 billion and nominal GDP of US$7.7 trillion. Home to over 3,200 financial services related firms, the Centre provides a world-class platform connecting the region’s markets with the economies of Europe, Asia and the Americas and facilitates growth in South-South trade and investment. An onshore, international financial centre that is focusing on the future of the finance industry, DIFC offers a stable, mature and secure base for financial institutions to develop their wholesale businesses.

DIFC offers all the elements found in the world’s most successful financial industry ecosystems, including an independent regulator and judicial system with a common-law framework, a global financial exchange, inspiring architecture, powerful, enabling support services and a vibrant business community. The infrastructure within the district of ultra-modern includes office spaces, innovation hub, retail outlets, cafes and restaurants, art galleries, residential apartments, public green areas and hotels.

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ABOUT PING IDENTITY:

Ping Identity delivers intelligent identity solutions for the enterprise. We enable companies to achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security and more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The PingOne Cloud Platform provides customers, workforce and partners with access to cloud, mobile, SaaS and on-premises applications across the hybrid enterprise. Over 60% of the Fortune 100 choose us for our identity expertise, open standards and partnerships with companies including Microsoft and Amazon. We provide flexible identity solutions that accelerate digital business initiatives, delight customers and secure the enterprise through multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, access management, intelligent API security, directory and data governance capabilities. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com.

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The leader in advanced analytics, SAS is a trusted partner for financial institutions seeking immediate value from their data. Banks around the globe count on SAS® for unmatched insights to make the best strategic decisions and ensure success in an evolving digital world. Through analytics, AI, cloud, open banking APIs, fintech and regtech technologies, SAS is helping financial services organizations build the future of banking by modernizing core systems. Reducing costs and risk. Stopping fraud in its tracks. Delighting customers with personalized experiences. And creating sustainable growth. Discover why more than 90% of the top 100 global banks use SAS.

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About SunTec 

SunTec is the world’s #1 relationship-based pricing and billing company. More than 130 clients in 45+ countries rely on SunTec to provide hyper-personalized products, offers, pricing, loyalty programs, tax compliance, and billing for over 400 million end-customers. SunTec products are based on our cloud-native and cloud-agnostic, API first, micro-services-based proprietary platform, Xelerate and are delivered on-premise, on private cloud and as SaaS. SunTec has global operations including the USA, UK, Germany, UAE, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and India. For more information, please visit us at www.suntecgroup.com or email us at marketing@suntecgroup.com 

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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network – enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa, visa.com/blog and @VisaNews.

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WNS partners with 25+ leading clients across retail banking, commercial banking, capital markets and FinTech to drive momentum in their digital transformation journey. We combine our industry expertise, consulting-led approach, innovative business models and process excellence with domain-led Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics to optimize operational costs, ensure risk management and regulatory compliance, and enhance end-customer experience. We serve some of the fastest-growing FinTech organizations and digital banks across the world, leveraging our digital operating model-based solutions to target critical areas, including Know Your Customer (KYC) / Anti-money Laundering (ALM), accelerate efficiencies and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). We have been widely recognized by the industry for our differentiated strategy and digital capabilities. 

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As a digital business transformation partner of choice, we’ve spent nearly three decades utilizing the disruptive power of technology and ingenuity to help digitally enable our clients' business in their pursuit of next.  

We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness. Our approach to transformation is grounded in a view of both the company and the customers simultaneously, and a unique fusing of strategy and consulting, experience and engineering with an enduring culture of problem-solving creativity.

In the space between next and now is how. And we believe that how you seize that space is everything.

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Shearman & Sterling is a leading global law firm which has a long and distinguished history of supporting our clients and enhancing their businesses wherever they operate, from major financial centers to emerging and growth markets.

We represent many of the world’s leading financial institutions, often working on ground breaking, precedent-setting matters and disputes.

As businesses and governments continue to grapple with the challenges that arise during periods of disruption and uncertainty, our globally-recognized partners provide insights and analysis on key legal issues and trends affecting the financial services industry, helping you make strategic choices.

We are committed to providing clients with the latest legal and regulatory insights and perspectives. Leaning on our expertise, know-how and experience to guide and counsel on the most challenging multi-jurisdictional issues, we partner with you to stay ahead while managing and navigating legal risk.

We are committed to forging long-term relationships with our clients, and understand the key drivers and high level of service that our financial services clients demand. We often act as an extension of our client’s own legal team — providing pragmatic, commercial, comprehensive legal advice and compliance guidance, with the flexibility that clients need so as to adapt in an ever-evolving environment.

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The Banker provides economic and financial intelligence for the world's financial sector and has built a reputation for objective and incisive reporting.

The Banker has been the trusted source of banking information since 1926. The Banker has navigated its way through over 90 years of banking coverage from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the financial crisis of 2008 with the same reputation for accuracy, authority and integrity.

The Banker strives to stimulate and inform, offering an unparalleled outlook with a wide range of news, features, analysis and interviews, and in-depth coverage of all the key issues facing the financial sector.

The Banker combines in-depth regional and country coverage with reports on:

Markets: Capital markets, derivatives & structured products, infrastructure & project finance and Islamic finance
Banking, regulation and risk: Regulation, retail banking, wholesale banking, private banking, management and governance issues
Transactions and technology: trading, trade finance, securities services, cash management and transaction bankers
Data: International financial centres, trends and rankings, including the Top 1000 World Banks

The Banker offers an unrivalled combination of authoritative news, features, surveys and heavyweight interviews and is essential reading for CEOs, CFOs, corporate treasurers, central bank governors and financial regulators.

Its unique database of more than 5000 banks maps their financial strength and soundness via Tier 1 capital, their profitability and their performance versus their peers.

The Banker is the key source of data and analysis for the industry.

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Professional Wealth Management, from the FT Group, is the premier resource for private banking and mutual fund coverage in Europe, Asia and beyond.

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