MEGA Events - Bahrain to host the 14th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference 2007

The advance of Islamic banking, which year-on-year outstrips accepted banking, is set to abide at a baking clip into 2008 as above new Islamic banking institutions are launched, accustomed players aggrandize their geographic footprint, and the accepted banks added acuminate their Islamic artefact offerings. These new advance areas will appear beneath the atom ablaze at the 14th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) which will be captivated at the Gulf International Convention Centre, Kingdom of Bahrain from 8 to 10 December 2007.

Developments in Islamic accounts are consistent in above advances in artefact array as an added aggressive bazaar is dispatch addition and the composure of Islamic accounts offerings accessible today. In addition, the industry is now adventurous a absolute globalisation aisle apprenticed by adventurous strategies from the bazaar leaders to bigger position the industry to abduction the abeyant in the acceptable Islamic markets of the Middle East and SE Asia as able-bodied as to analyze the accretion absorption and opportunities in non-Islamic geographies.

This year WIBC will barrage the Country Focus Session, featuring a console of all-embracing experts apery new advance markets for Islamic banking casework in the UK, Europe, South Africa, Asia and North America. In addition, the UK Pavilion will be hosted by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), which will actualize a activating ambiance with opportunities to arrangement with a activating appointment of leaders who are abstraction the UK’s approaching as a above centre of Islamic finance. With 1,000 assembly from over 35 countries accessory anniversary year, WIBC has become the a lot of cogent belvedere for chief decision-makers to analyze new and arising bazaar opportunities for Islamic finance.

Mirroring the advance in the Islamic cyberbanking industry, WIBC 2007 appearance a almanac amount of ally and supporters, including National Commercial Bank, Unicorn Investment Bank, Al Salam Bank, Samba Financial Group, and Investment Dar as the Platinum Strategic Partners.

Abdulkareem Abu AlNasr, Chief Executive Officer of National Commercial Bank (NCB), said: “the World Islamic Banking Conference provides a admired befalling for specialists in the Islamic cyberbanking industry to barter account and perspectives apropos the latest cyberbanking initiatives apropos corporations and individuals.”

Supported by the Central Bank of Bahrain, WIBC 2007 aswell appearance a host of new and value-added highlights that set it afar from all added conferences. These cover the Leaders & Winning Strategies Session area all-embracing and bounded business leaders abode cross-industry perspectives; the aboriginal analysis insights of the WIBC Competitiveness Report conducted in accord with McKinsey & Company; the Shari’ah Open Forum; and the Sector Summits absorption on the Retail, and the Corporate & Investment Banking segments.

David Pace, Chief Financial Officer, Unicorn Investment Bank, said: “Unicorn is admiring to accomplice with the WIBC for the third after year. We acquisition WIBC to be a allotment of the a lot of important anniversary contest on the Islamic cyberbanking calendar. It provides an ideal befalling for the world’s Islamic bankers to accumulate and to altercate key issues and blueprint the approaching administration of the industry.”

The 14th Annual World Islamic Banking Conference which is accepting captivated beneath the affair of 'Combatting Competition & Capturing New International Growth Markets,' has durably accustomed itself as the better and a lot of cogent acquisition of Islamic cyberbanking & accounts industry leaders in the world.

More advice on the World Islamic Banking Conference is accessible on the appointment website www.megaevents.net/wibc

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MEGA is the arch business advice close focused on accomplishing business after-effects for the Islamic cyberbanking & accounts industry back 1993. The portfolio of MEGA brands represents the battleground industry conferences and our audience are the arch players in the all-embracing banking markets.

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