BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WUAB - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WUAB X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wuab.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WUAB REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260427T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260428T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20260330T064143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T081504Z UID:8544-1777278600-1777388400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Beyond Financial Inclusion: Charting the Path to Inclusive Growth DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n  URL:https://wuab.org/event/beyond-financial-inclusion-charting-the-path-to-inclusive-growth/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Brochure-Financial-Inclusion-Forum_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260209T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260210T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20251222T123909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T093637Z UID:8423-1770627600-1770735600@wuab.org SUMMARY:The Annual Compliance Forum 2026: Strengthening AML/CFT\, Sanctions\, Digital Risk\, Governance\, Privacy\, and CRS Frameworks in Arab Banking DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/the-annual-compliance-forum-2025-strengthening-aml-cft-sanctions-digital-risk-governance-privacy-and-crs-frameworks-in-arab-banking/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Brochure-Annual-Compliance-Forum-2026-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260113T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260114T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20251222T111246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251222T112548Z UID:8408-1768294800-1768402800@wuab.org SUMMARY:التكنولوجيا والأمن السيبراني في العمل المصرفي DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%83%d9%86%d9%88%d9%84%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Brochure-CyberSecurity-and-Fintech-Syria-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251103T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251104T153000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20251006T073956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T104114Z UID:8304-1762160400-1762270200@wuab.org SUMMARY:Internal Audit Forum 2025 in its 5th Edition\, entitled: “Reimagining Internal Audit: Strategy\, Risk\, and Innovation for the Next Era" DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/internal-audit-forum-2025-in-its-5th-edition-entitled-reimagining-internal-audit-strategy-risk-and-innovation-for-the-next-era/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Brochure-Internal-Audit-2025-Egypt-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250512T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250514T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20250415T100732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T115455Z UID:7856-1747040400-1747234800@wuab.org SUMMARY:Innovate to Elevate: Ensuring compliance excellence in banking's online onboarding forum DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/innovate-to-elevate-ensuring-compliance-excellence-in-bankings-online-onboarding-forum-2/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Brochure-Compliance-Online-Onboarding-Egypt_page-0004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250504T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250505T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20250414T101341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T110232Z UID:7841-1746349200-1746457200@wuab.org SUMMARY:Banking leadership in the age of digital transformation: Navigating change with excellence DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/banking-leadership-in-the-age-of-digital-transformation-navigating-change-with-excellence/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Brochure-Digital-Transformation-Kuwait_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20250312T082053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T083955Z UID:7762-1739952000-1740063600@wuab.org SUMMARY:Arab Banking Compliance Forum 2025 (ABC 2025): Securing International Confidence DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/arab-banking-compliance-forum-2025-abc-2025-securing-international-confidence/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Brochure-Compliance-Iraq_page-0004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250210T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250211T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20250116T120059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250311T125912Z UID:7674-1739178000-1739286000@wuab.org SUMMARY:Innovate to Elevate: Ensuring Compliance Excellence in Banking's Online On-boarding Forum DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/innovate-to-elevate-ensuring-compliance-excellence-in-bankings-online-on-boarding-forum/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brochure-Online-Onboarding-Jordan-4_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241120T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241121T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20241028T073103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T110413Z UID:7378-1732089600-1732201200@wuab.org SUMMARY:Sustainable Bank: The Role of Internal Audit\, Risk Management & Compliance in Ensuring Prosperity and Stability DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/sustainable-bank-the-role-of-internal-audit-risk-management-compliance-in-ensuring-prosperity-and-stability/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brochure-Internal-Audit-Forum_Page.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240710T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240711T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20240607T074051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T082728Z UID:7186-1720602000-1720710000@wuab.org SUMMARY:Prepare to Prevail (P2P): Comprehensive Risk and Capital Solutions DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/prepare-to-prevail-p2p-comprehensive-risk-and-capital-solutions/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/P2P-Brochure-Risk-Jordan_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240603T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240604T170000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20240422T085508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T094259Z UID:7126-1717401600-1717520400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Innovate to Elevate: Ensuring Compliance Excellence in Banking's Online Onboarding Forum DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/innovate-to-elevate-ensuring-compliance-excellence-in-bankings-online-onboarding-forum/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Brochure-Online-Onboarding-Forum-Cyprus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240305T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240306T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20240311T113421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T115719Z UID:7041-1709625600-1709737200@wuab.org SUMMARY:The Annual Human Resources Professional Group Forum The Opportunities and Challenges in Human Resource Management: Adaptation\, Success\, and Sustainability DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/the-annual-human-resources-professional-group-forum-the-opportunities-and-challenges-in-human-resource-management-adaptation-success-and-sustainability/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Brochure-HR-Forum.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240212T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240213T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20240125T114842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T102103Z UID:6975-1707726600-1707836400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Today's Compliance\, Tomorrow's Success: Advancing Arab Banking Excellence DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/todays-compliance-tomorrows-success-advancing-arab-banking-excellence/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Brochure-Compliance-Forum-Jordan_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231124 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20231108T095910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231219T093214Z UID:6743-1700611200-1700783999@wuab.org SUMMARY:Strategies and Horizons - Charting the Course for Future Internal Auditing Forum DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/strategies-and-horizons-charting-the-course-for-future-internal-auditing-forum/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BROCHURE-AUDITING-FORUM-EGYPT_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231004T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231005T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20230831T080942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T081135Z UID:6497-1696406400-1696518000@wuab.org SUMMARY:Banking on Cybersecurity: Protecting Digital Financial Landscapes DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/banking-on-cybersecurity-protecting-digital-financial-landscapes/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CYBERSECURITY-BROCHURE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230821T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230822T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20230808T072920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T073543Z UID:6479-1692606600-1692716400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Resilient Horizons: Navigating Risk Management amid Regulatory Developments and Safeguarding the Financial Sector from the Perils of Terrorist Networks DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/resilient-horizons-navigating-risk-management-amid-regulatory-developments-and-safeguarding-the-financial-sector-from-the-perils-of-terrorist-networks/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jordan-Risk-BROCHURE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230622T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230623T143000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20230626T082317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T095629Z UID:6374-1687424400-1687530600@wuab.org SUMMARY:Unleashing the Future: Exploring the Latest Trends in Human Resources Management and Training in the Banking Sector DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/unleashing-the-future-exploring-the-latest-trends-in-human-resources-management-and-training-in-the-banking-sector/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/HR-Brochure.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230215T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230216T160000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20230101T111413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T131436Z UID:6082-1676448000-1676563200@wuab.org SUMMARY:Effective Implementation of The COSO Framework in The Banking Sector DESCRIPTION:Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/effective-implementation-of-the-coso-framework-in-the-banking-sector-2/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/COSO-Workshop-Egypt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220729T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220730T120000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20220624T132058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T084652Z UID:4930-1659074400-1659182400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Internal Audit Forum: New Era\, New Role DESCRIPTION:Grand Rotana Resort & Spa – Sharam El Sheikh – Egypt\, 29 -30 July 2022\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground: \nInternal auditing as a concept has changed dramatically throughout time\, with a fast pace evolution especially during and post the pandemic in the last 2 years. \nToday\, instead of focusing only on discovering irregularities and pursing offenders\, internal auditing has become an independent\, objective assurance and consultancy activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations and helps accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic\, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management\, control and governance processes. \nInternal auditing as a concept has changed dramatically throughout time\, with a fast pace evolution especially during and post the pandemic in the last 2 years. \nLarge organizations\, such as Banks\, and due to huge number of transactions\, staff as well as the variety and complexity of other operations\, often need to formalize and standardize their policies\, procedures and workflow; and what applies to other departments\, applies to an Internal Audit Function.Therefore\, Internal Audit Standards are considered to be the cornerstone for a quality audit service under a defined framework acknowledged internationally able to efficiently generate a success story for an Internal Audit Activity. \nIn this regards\, the World Union of Arab Bankers is organizing this seminar to shed lights on the new concepts related to internal audit and its role in maintaining transparency and compliance with laws and international standards that contributes to safeguarding thee organizations and help its objectives. WUAB aims to explore the subject of internal audit and improve its role and independence to protect the assets of the organization or the bank\, especially in the light of the recent changes in the international standards of internal audit. \nParticipants: \nChief Audit Executives and Internal Auditors and Internal control departments from banks and financial institutions. Others: Risk Management personnel\, quality assurance\, and similar functions. \nSubjects: \nInternal Audit – Mission\, International Standards & Competency Framework \n\nModern Concepts related to Internal Audit and its evolving role.\nInternal Audit as a Trusted Advisor – Active Awareness & Consultation Role – Early Involvement in Bank Initiatives / Projects / Committees\nEffective Follow-up.\nQuality Assurance / IIA International Professional Practices framework.\n\nInternal Audit – Effective Partner \n\nOptimizing the Internal Audit relationship with External Auditors\, Compliance\, Risk Management and Legal.\nInternal Audit Function and Executive Management\nAudit Committee Role\, Responsibilities and effective relationship with Internal Audit & Executive Management.\nInternal Audit & Regulators\n\nIT Audit – Increasing Role \n\nIT Governance topics:\n\nGovernance and Management of Enterprise IT\n\n\nFinTech topics: The internal audit roles in reviewing\n\nDigital transformation\nFinTech tools\n\n\nCyber Security topics: The internal audit roles in reviewing\n\nCyber Security\nPrivacy and Data Protection Strategy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrochure\n\n\n\nRegistration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4930] \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/internal-audit-forum-new-era-new-role/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Brochure-Internal-Audit-Egypt_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220607T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220608T120000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20220509T133641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T133641Z UID:4828-1654581600-1654689600@wuab.org SUMMARY:The Risk Professionals Group Annual Forum DESCRIPTION:Background:\nRisk professionals have been forced to adapt to and deal with several changes in the industry since late 2019\, the time when coronavirus started spreading. \nThe Covid-19 pandemic “Deprioritized Regulatory Compliance” and redirected risk management in the financial landscape in the following directions: \n\n Private risk management will increasingly fill the void left by governments.\n\nPrivate risk management will expand and broaden in 2022\, partly because of the ramifications of the pandemic. While government vaccine mandates are unlikely to be imposed in many countries due to legal challenges\, individuals choosing not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine may see their health insurance premiums rise to reflect the likelihood that they will require hospitalization or costly medical treatment. \n\n Long-term risks will be translated into short-term threats and opportunities.\n\nRisk managers will be tasked with translating longer-term threats into short-term opportunities for businesses and policymakers. For example\, households may have difficulty incorporating the uncertain cost of carbon emissions today on the lives of people three or four generations from now. However\, with respect to air quality and reduced illness\, they can appreciate the immediate benefit of switching from coal to less polluting energy sources. The most successful CEOs\, CROs and other risk managers will be those who can translate a long-term vision into a series of short-term actions with clear\, immediate payoffs. \n\n People from all walks of life will become more adept at understanding risk and probability concepts.\n\nIn the future\, widespread probabilistic thinking will lead to more fruitful discourse and better decision making. Demand for people who can speak the language of risk and translate it for others will only increase over time. \n\n Artificial intelligence and machine learning will complement human judgment and simpler modeling techniques – but will not replace them.\n\nRisk managers will look to diversify the number and types of models they use\, to get a broader perspective on the likelihood of default and loss severity. Machine-learning models will take on a larger role\, as firms look to incorporate more timely data in their risk assessments. \n\n Risk managers will focus on cultivating organizational resilience\, rather than mitigating specific risks.\n\nIn the next phase\, financial institutions will focus on developing data and tools to better assess interrelationships and dependencies across firms\, customers and industries. We already see this happening\, as businesses focus on their supply chains and lenders look to gain of a better understanding of their customers (KYC). Increasingly\, to ensure firms can navigate whatever threats emerge\, risk managers will need to understand both indirect and direct threats. Moreover\, they’ll need to develop risk mitigation plans that focus on organizational structure and linkages. \nThis forum aims to achieve a balance between scientific theory and practice\, with a focus on all major emerging methodologies in line with international best practices and regulatory requirements. This forum will also provide banks and regulatory authorities with a platform to learn from practical examples of how to move flexibly to implementing the new regulatory requirements. \nObjectives:\nOn completion of this Forum\, participants will be able to have a clear\, proper and practical understanding of the following topics: \n\nThe main components and definition of regulatory capital and risk weighted assets;\n\n\nThe improvements brought to the treatment of credit risk;\nThe enhancements brought to the treatment of operational risk;\nThe implementation of the leverage ratio surcharge introduced for the largest Banks;\nThe implementation of the risk-sensitive output floor; and\nThe new implementation timetable.\n\nWho should attend?\n\nRegulatory Authorities;\nRisk Managers and senior staff in Banks;\nFinancial Controllers and Financial Managers and senior staff in Banks;\nTreasurers and Capital Markets Managers and senior staff in Banks;\nInternal Auditors and senior staff in Banks;\nExternal Auditors and their main assistants.\n\nMain topics to be covered\n\nCyber security challenges\nResilience within Coronavirus\nHow to manage digital transformation risks in banks\nGreen finance implications and risks \nHigh risks that banks might face in 2022\nThe effect of monetary policies developments on our economies\nSupply chain risk\nAML and counter-terrorism financing risks\nRevisions to the standardized approach for credit risk to enhance the regulatory framework\nInternal ratings-based approaches for credit risk;\n\n\n\n\n\nBrochure\n\n\n\nRegistration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\n\n[envira-gallery id=”4868″] \n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4828] \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/the-risk-professionals-group-annual-forum/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220308T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220310T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081025 CREATED:20220215T101932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T101932Z UID:4739-1646719200-1646924400@wuab.org SUMMARY:HR Competencies: The Foundation of HR Business Leaders DESCRIPTION:Background: \nThe need to “reskill” HR has been discussed for years with little mention as to what this looks like\, how it is accomplished and what can be expected with respect to delivered outcomes. To address this lack of actionable information and To be successful in HR and as a business leader\, there is a need for practitioners to be more than technically proficient; they need to translate what they know through key behavioral competencies. The combination of technical expertise and behaviors provides the right formula for success for HR leaders. In today’s challenging business environment\, the HR professionals should align with and meet the needs of the business strategy. \nHR professionals are expected to be valued team members with the rest of the organization and contribute as business partners for the growth of the organization. The HR business leader now serves the purpose of providing HR expertise and behavioral attributes to organizational resources to contribute more strategically to business goals. HR professionals are equipped with the KSAOs (knowledge\, skills\, abilities and other characteristics)\, or competencies\, to partner with senior leadership not only to be involved in the strategic management of the organization but to drive the implementation of it. \nTherefore\, through the application of HR knowledge and an understanding of the business\, HR professionals are effective at building strong partnerships with senior leaders as they provide expert advice on all matters relating to the ongoing development of the organization. They have the ability to understand and apply information to contribute to the organization’s strategic plan\, interpret information to make business decisions and recommendations\, and provide guidance to organizational stakeholders. \nToday’s successful HR business leaders are highly proficient in nine critical competencies: Leadership and Navigation\, Ethical Practice\, Business Acumen\, Relationship Management\, Consultation\, Critical Evaluation\, Global and Cultural Effectiveness\, Communication\, and HR Expertise. \nMain Objectives: \nParticipants will understand how \n\nThe current and future trends challenges of Human Resources Management are going\nTo Create a unique workplace culture\nTo Emphasize the rules\, expectations\, and standards for the workplace\nTo Help everyone understand workplace diversity\nTo Facilitate communication between HR and employees\nTo Strengthen the importance of training and development\nTo Eliminate employee uncertainty\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nDay 1 \n\n\nThe “Re-Skilled” HR Professional \n\n\nThe Critical 9 Competencies Needed for Successful HR Leaders \n\n\n1. Case Study  \n\n\n\n\nDay 2 \n\n\n1.    HR Leadership & Navigation \n2.    HR Ethical Practice \n\n\n3.    Business Acumen \n4.    Relationship Management \n\n\n2. Case Study \n\n\n\n\nDay 3 \n\n\n5.    Consultation \n6.    Global & Cultural Effectiveness \n  \n\n\n7.    Communication \n8.    HR Expertise \n9.    Evolution of HR \n\n\n3. Case Study \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mr. Bassam Nammour\, Credit Libanias – Training & Development Manager \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCircular\n\n\n\nBrochure\n\n\n\nRegistration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation 1\n\n\n\nPresentation 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4739] \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/hr-competencies-the-foundation-of-hr-business-leaders/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210915T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T110000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210917T092317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T092317Z UID:4478-1631692800-1631790000@wuab.org SUMMARY:Bank Risk Indicators DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nBank risk indicators are a crucial strategic tool in the hands of the management\, board and the different stakeholders to allow them situate the bank and take decisions. They enable: \n\nStatus assessment\, trend analysis and comparing to peers\nBenchmarking with best practice\nComparing with the bank’s vision and objectives\, analyzing gaps\, revising and taking actions.\n\nRisk indicators are easy to manipulate\, amend\, distribute and explain to all stakeholders. \nBank risk indicators encompass strategic indicators (capital ratios\, profitability)\, credit (credit concentration\, credit quality)\, liquidity and market risks (interest rate\, foreign exchange)\, and operational risk indicators in its large sense (including legal\, reputational\, compliance\, IT and cyber risks\, BCP\, etc.). \nThe workshop will go through some of the main risk indicators in use by banks\, and will discuss the opportunities and limitations of risk indicators in today’s bank risk management.    \nObjectives:\nAt the end of the workshop\, the participants will become more familiar with: \n\nThe risk management reporting process to the board and senior management\nA typical framework of reporting risk indicators\nA simplified definition of the main risk indicators\nImportance and limitation of risk indicators\n\n\n\n\nTrainer’s Biography:\nPascale Maksoud Dahrouge heads the Financial and Operational Risk Management Department at Byblos Bank Group since 2014. \nDuring her 30 years’ career\, Pascale has been involved in corporate and retail lending\, credit risk and in risk management for the past 20 years\, including the implementation of the Basel Capital Accords (Basel II\, III) and IFRS9 ECL programs. Pascale is member of the ABL Risk Committee. Has participated in workshops with the ABL (Association of Banks in Lebanon)\, the UAB (Union of Arab Banks)\, the IMF and the Lebanese University. \nPascale holds a Master in Economics (Université Saint Joseph- Beirut) and an Executive-MBA (ESCP-Paris\, ESA-Beirut). She is a certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP-USA). \n\n\n\n\nCircular\n\n\n\nBrochure\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/bank-risk-indicators/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210830T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210831T110000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210826T121509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210826T121509Z UID:4444-1630303200-1630407600@wuab.org SUMMARY:The Annual Compliance Mangers Forum: Compliance with US and European Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Laws: Implementing AMLA 2020 and 6AMLD Standards in the Arab Banking Sector DESCRIPTION:  \nالخلفية: \nأقر الكونغرس الأميركي قانون مكافحة غسل الأموال لعام 2020 (AMLA) في 1 كانون الثاني/يناير 2021، والذي يتضمن إصلاحات جوهرية في مجال مكافحة غسل الأموال، وقوانين مكافحة تمويل الإرهاب. وكذلك أقر الاتحاد الاوروبي توجيهات جديدة في مجال مكافحة غسل الأموال (6AMLD) في 3 كانون الاول/ديسمبر 2020. \nلن ينحصر تأثير هذه الإصلاحات على المؤسسات المالية الأميركية والاوروبية، بل سيتعداها ليشمل المؤسسات المالية الأجنبية التي يجب بدورها أن تكون على دراية بالتطورات الأخيرة في هذا المجال. \nلطالما كان موضوع الامتثال في المصارف والمؤسسات المالية يشكل تحديا كبيرا نظرا للمخاطر المقترنة بعدم الامتثال و لعدم وجود سياسات ، اجراءات و ضوابط موحدة وهادفة في هذا الخصوص. \nوبالرغم من الجهود الكبيرة التي تبذلها السلطات الرقابية في مختلف أنحاء العالم لمكافحة غسل الأموال وتمويل الإرهاب، لا تزال هذه الجرائم المنظمة تأخذ حيزا واسعا عالميا وذات تأثير عابر للحدود لأنه يتم اللجوء الى اساليب  شائكة ومعقدة وذلك بسبب الابتكارات التكنولوجيا المالية وتنمي الخدمات المصرفية من جهة ، وظهور وانتشار منظمات ارهابية  جديدة من جهة أخرى. تمثل هذه الجرائم بلا شك مصدر قلق كبير لمختلف السلطات القضائية والرقابية والأمنية في العالم. ولذلك ، يسعى جميع أصحاب الشأن بما فيها السلطات الاشرافية والرقابية المعنية إلى تحفيز وادخال بعض التغييرات الضرورية  في نماذج أعمالهم الرقابية ووضع أطر تشريعية وإشرافية شاملة  للحد من هذه الجرائم. \nساهم التعاون الدولي ما بين الهيئات والمنظمات العالمية مثل لجنة بازل، مجموعة العمل المالي ، صندوق النقد الدولي (IMF) ، البنك الدولي، جهاز مكافحة الجرائم الماليةFINCEN ، مجموعة العشرين (G20) واتحاد المصارف العربية في تعزيز اجراءات مكافحة غسل الأموال وتمويل الإرهاب وزيادة الوعي لدى القطاع المصرفي والمالي في العالم العربي حول أهمية تبني وتطبيق أحدث تقنيات وأساليب إدارة مخاطر عدم الامتثال وقد أظهرت أن القواعد والتوصيات الموحدة والشاملة تهدف الى تجنب القطاع المصرفي تداعيات ومخاطر الجرائم المالية والفساد بشكل فعال. \nفي هذا الخصوص، هدف من هذا اللقاء هو تزويد الحاضرين بنظرة عامة على ما ورد أعلاه بالإضافة الى تقديم رؤى عملية وأمثلة لتطبيقها وتجنب العقوبات. \n\n\n\n\nالتعميم\n\n\n\nالكراس\n\n\n\nالأجندة \n\n\n\nإستمارة الاشتراك\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload All the Presentation Here:Download \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4444] \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/the-annual-compliance-mangers-forum-compliance-with-us-and-european-anti-money-laundering-and-counter-terrorist-financing-laws-implementing-amla-2020-and-6amld-standards-in-the-arab-banking-sector/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210728T050000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210729T140000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210714T090235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210714T090235Z UID:4401-1627448400-1627567200@wuab.org SUMMARY:Top HR Trends & Challenges for the coming 5 Years DESCRIPTION:Background\n2020 was fraught with change\, as organizations around the world scrambled to react to the global COVID-19 pandemic that affected companies large and small across every industry. If 2020 taught us anything\, it is that companies that do not transform will be left behind by those that do. This applies to developing a digital transformation strategy that will stick but more importantly\, extends beyond technology to tackle people-centric issues. \nUnderstanding industry shifts is crucial to keeping pace with the rapid developments taking place\, especially in light of the pandemic. To that end\, we as HR professionals need to learn the top HR trends for 2021 so we can make the necessary changes and decisions for our organizations. \nMain Objectives:               \nParticipants will understand how \n\nThe current and future trends challenges of Human Resources Management are going\nTo Create a unique workplace culture\nTo Emphasize the rules\, expectations\, and standards for the workplace\nTo Help everyone understand workplace diversity\nTo Facilitate communication between HR and employees\nTo Strengthen the importance of training and development\nTo Eliminate employee uncertainty\n\n\n\n\n 1st Hour2nd Hour3rd HourDay 1Major Trends: Virtual work is here to stayCompanies double down on digitalTeams play an essential role  HR design is a strategic focusEmployee experience is redefinedHR delivers value through an outside/ in approach  Mental health gets the attention it deservesData becomes the new currencyDEI (diversity\, equality and inclusion) receives major focusDay 2Workers are equipped with the skills and tools they need to navigate uncertaintyHR offers guidance to drive successCompanies show their true colorsMajor Challenges: Compliance with Laws & RegulationsManagement ChangesLeadership DevelopmentWorkforce Training & DevelopmentAdapting to InnovationCompensationUnderstanding Benefits & PackagesRecruiting Talented EmployeesRetaining Talented EmployeesWorkplace Diversity\n\n\n\n\nDownload Circular\n\n\n\nDownload Brochure & Agenda\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4401] \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/top-hr-trends-challenges-for-the-coming-5-years/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210617T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210618T110000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210519T110006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T083319Z UID:4310-1623909600-1624014000@wuab.org SUMMARY:Seventh Annual Arab – Cypriot ForumInvestigating the Global Decline in Correspondent Banking Relationships & Complying with AMLD6 and AMLA 2020 DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground:\nFlows of dirty money can damage the stability and reputation of the financial sector and threaten the local markets\, and terrorism shakes the very foundations of every society. The soundness\, integrity and stability of banks and financial institutions and confidence in the financial system as a whole could be seriously jeopardized\, add to that the De-risking pattern adopted by Correspondent banks\, therefore putting countries and their banking and financial systems in an extremely delicate situation. \nOver the last decade\, global banks have been tightening operations to comply with regulations designed to curtail money-laundering and terrorism-financing. As a consequence\, global banks have been limiting correspondent banking relationships (CBRs) with local banks in emerging and developing economies – a practice referred to as “de-risking.”  \nCertain global banks have terminated relationships – or “de-risked” – certain local banks\, but they have also established new relationships with other banks in the same countries. The idea that country risk is the primary consideration doesn’t hold. Local (respondent) banks have been able to adjust by dealing with fewer correspondent banks or by establishing new relationships\, which in some instances are with second or third-tier banks\, which raises concerns about integrity that warrant authorities’ attention. \nMoreover\, new and updated AML/CFT regulations were released by both the United States of America and the European Union; On January 1\, 2021\, the US Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. Likewise\, as of December 3rd\, 2020\, the European Union’s Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6) is in effect for all member states. Regulated entities operating in the union will need to be compliant by June 3\, 2021. Like its predecessor\, this new directive is aimed to strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) rules in the union and place larger responsibility on regulated entities to fight money laundering. Specifically\, the directive aims to expand the scope of existing legislation\, clarify certain regulatory details and toughen criminal penalties. \nIn this regards\, the World Union of Arab Banks through The Seventh Annual Arab-Cypriot Forum\, is always keen to join efforts with international bodies and entities to safeguard the Arab – Cypriot Banks and financial institutions from potential threats and challenges and introduce the state of art means of combating these threats while abiding and complying with the regulatory framework and international best practices. The Arab – Cypriot Forum has been accurately structured to showcase and highlight the future prospects and opportunities by providing ample time and natural situations for networking it provides an open platform for Arab and Cypriot compliance professionals to meet\, discuss and share the knowledge and experience through conversations\, interactive panel discussions\, and presentations at a world-renowned gathering of industry professionals and thought leaders on topics. \nTopics of Discussion:\nInvestigating the Global Decline in Correspondent Banking Relationships\n\nWithdrawal of correspondent banking relationships linked to de-risking: highlighting the increasing regulation\, operational cost and market competition impact banking and international trade.\n\nActions that countries and the industry can pursue to limit de-risking\n\nGather data on CBR closures\, industries and activities affected by de-risking\nEncourage at-risk respondent banks to include de-risking in contingency planning as part of the prudential requirements and supervisory practices\nImprove communication between correspondent and respondent banks\, as a lack of awareness of country context can contribute to de-risking\nImprove regulatory oversight of MTOs’ obligations toward AML/CFT\nConsider technology as a solution to de-risking\, since FinTech could lower the cost of compliance\, reduce cash transactions and improve transaction monitoring.\n\nSixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6) – Proactive Planning and Implementation\n\n6AMLD implementation experiences from European financial services businesses\nLessons Learned from the five previous Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD)\n\nThe US Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) of 2020\n\nModernization and Reforms of AML/CFT Laws and Regulations\nMajor Changes to the AML/CFT Landscape\nEnhanced AML Whistleblower Program\nIncreased Penalties for AML Violations\n\nWho can attend?\n\nBank CEOs and managing Directors\nCompliance Managers\nAML operations and compliance team\nCustomer due diligence\nTransaction monitoring and system tuning\nAML audits\n\nForum Techniques:\nThe forum employs a mix of theoretical fundamental explanations and case studies\, with special focus on exchanging knowledge and experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownlaod Brochure\n\n\n\nDownload Agenda\n\n\n\nDownload Registration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentations\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4310] \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/seventh-annual-arab-cypriot-foruminvestigating-the-global-decline-in-correspondent-banking-relationships-complying-with-amld6-and-amla-2020/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/THE-7TH-ARAB-CRYPTO-brochure.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210526T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210527T100000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210504T130733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T082637Z UID:4244-1622016000-1622109600@wuab.org SUMMARY:Make Your Bank A Safer Place DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Don’t let perfection be the enemy of better than before.”\nOverview:\nCyber events require an organized response. When an attack happens\, how you respond and how quickly you reactcan greatly influence the impact of the attack on your organization\, finances and reputation. Cybersecurity events arenot resolved in a vacuum. Resolution often requires a joint effort between technical and non-technical teams in orderto address all facets of risk posed to the organization.It is critical to equip a financial institution to identify and defend against today’s advanced cyber threats. Therefore\,maintaining data and reputation using secure\, easily managed services that ease compliance and audit burdens\, anddeliver maximum security while minimizing cost is crucial. \nMain Topics:\nCreate a Cyber Security Ecosystem “PPP” People – Policies – Procedures \n\nBuild a Cyber Security Ecosystem\nCreate Cyber Security Awareness & Culture for all individuals in the Organization.\nHelp in creating a safer Supply Chain Management\nTrain the right people to be Safe and Enhance the Organization Safety\nGDPR & Privacy Compliance\nUnderstanding Cloud Storage and all its advantages and disadvantages\nTypes of Cyber Attacks and Risks Related to it\nSocial Engineering: The most significant risk associated with Email Hacking\nOnline Security & Safety\n\nHelp Implementing NIST Cyber Security Risk Management Framework: \n\nUnderstand your assets and resources\nDevelop and implement the appropriate safeguards\nIdentify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event\nTake action for a detected cybersecurity event\nActivities to maintain plans for resilience\n\nSpeaker: Roland Abi Najem \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Circular\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownlaod Brochure\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Registration Form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4244] \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/make-your-bank-a-safer-place/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BANK-SAFER-PLACE-Webinar-brochure_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210426T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210416T122457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T082746Z UID:4213-1619431200-1619524800@wuab.org SUMMARY:Bank's Initiatives Towards Commercial Clients Facing Covid-19 DESCRIPTION:Overview:\n\n\n\nCoronavirus (COVID-19) is already having a profound effect on people’s lives and the economy. Corporateand commercial banks have a central role to play in supporting the global economy during the crisis\, and infacilitating a rapid and sustained recovery afterwards. On top of normal commercial lending\, banks will play akey role in implementing many of the government’s policies to support SMEs and corporates. \n\n\n\nA “business as usual” approach based on largely manual processes\, expert judgement and existingunderwriting criteria will not work. It cannot cope operationally and it cannot be relied on to consistently deliverthe best decisions. \n\n\n\nThe webinar will tackle the overall effect of COVID-19 on the Arab economies in general and the Arab BankingSector in specific. An overview of the international initiatives of the IMF & World Bank towards the ArabCountries in addition to the initiatives of the Central Banks in the Arab Countries in facing the pandemic. \n\n\n\nTopics to be discuss:\n\n\n\nDAY 1 – OVERALL EFFECT OF COVID ON ARAB WORLD & INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES   \n\n\n\n\nOVERALL EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON MENA REGION\n\nOil Prices\nGDP\nTrade\n\n\nINTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES\nIMF FINANCING\n\nLending Facilities\nDEBT SERVICE RELIEF (Catastrophe Containment & Relief Trust CCRT)\n\n\nWorld Bank\n\nFast Track Covid-19 Facility\nWB Projects\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDAY 2 – Initiatives of Central Banks in the  Arab World to face COVID-19 \n\n\n\n\nKSA\nQatar\nUAE\nEgypt\nLebanon\nJordan\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mr. CHARLES GEORGES A. HADDAD\, Assistant CEO at BLOM BANK S.A.L \n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4213] \n\n\n\n\nDownload Circular\n\n\n\nDownload Brochure\n\n\n\nDownload Registration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/banks-initiatives-towards-commercial-clients-facing-covid-19/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wuab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Banks-Initiative-Webinar-brochure_Page_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T070000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210415T100000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210401T121338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T121338Z UID:4122-1618470000-1618480800@wuab.org SUMMARY:The First Banking Executive Online Conference 2021 DESCRIPTION:  \n11:00 – 11:30 (KSA Time)10:00 – 10:30 (Egypt)11:00 – 11:30 (Lebanon)11:00 – 11:30 (Jordan)12:00 – 12:30 (UAE) \n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA.    The State of the World Economy\n\n\n\nA stronger starting point for the 2021–22 forecast. \n\n\n\nMultiple vaccine approvals and the launch of vaccination in some countries in December have raised hopes of an eventual end to the pandemic. \n\n\n\nThree questions. These developments raise three interrelated questions for the global outlook. \n\n\n\nHow will restrictions needed to curb transmission affect activity in the near term before vaccines begin delivering effective society-wide protection?How will vaccine-rollout expectations and policy support affect activity?How will financial conditions and commodity prices evolve?Fiscal policy support set to boost economic activity.Supportive financial conditions. Major central banks are assumed to maintain their current policy rate settings throughout the forecast horizon to the end of 2022.Rising commodity prices.\n\n\n\nRisks of the Outlook \n\n\n\nAlthough new restrictions following the surge in infections suggest growth could be weaker than projected in early 2021\, other factors pull the distribution of risks in the opposite direction. \n\n\n\nOn the upside\, further favorable news on vaccine manufacture (including on those under development in emerging market economies)\, distribution\, and effectiveness of therapies could increase expectations of a faster end to the pandemic than assumed in the baseline\, boosting confidence among firms and households.On the downside\, growth could turn out weaker than in the baseline if the virus surge (including from new variants) proves difficult to contain\, infections and deaths mount rapidly before vaccines are widely available\, and voluntary distancing or lockdowns prove stronger than anticipated. Slower-than-anticipated progress on medical interventions could dampen hopes of a relatively quick exit from the pandemic and weaken confidence.\n\n\n\nB.    Digital Transformation\n\n\n\nDigital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business\, fundamentally changing how we operate and deliver value to customers. It’s also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo\, experiment\, and get comfortable with failure. \n\n\n\nThe four domains in Digital Transformation. \n\n\n\nTechnology From the Internet of Things\, to blockchain\, to data lakes\, to artificial intelligence\, the raw potential of emerging technologies is staggering. And while many of these are becoming easier to use\, understanding how any particular technology contributes to transformational opportunity\, adapting that technology to the specific needs of the business\, and integrating it with existing systems is extremely complex.Data The unfortunate reality is that at many companies today most data is not up to basic standards\, and the rigors of transformation require much better data quality and analytics. Transformation almost certainly involves understanding new types of unstructured data (e.g.\, a driver-supplied picture of damage to a car)\, massive quantities of data external to your company\, leveraging proprietary data\, and integrating everything together\, all while shedding enormous quantities of data that have never been (and never will be) used.Process Transformation requires an end-to-end mindset\, a rethinking of ways to meet customer needs\, seamless connection of work activities\, and the ability to manage across silos going forward.Organizational Change Capability In this domain we include leadership\, teamwork\, courage\, emotional intelligence\, and other elements of change management.\n\n\n\nPulling It All Together So far\, we’ve discussed the technology\, data\, process\, and organizational change capability domains as if they existed in isolation\, which of course they don’t. Rather\, they are part of a larger whole. Technology is the engine of digital transformation\, data is the fuel\, process is the guidance system\, and organizational change capability is the landing gear. You need them all\, and they must function well together. Finally\, work on technology\, data\, and process must proceed in an appropriate sequence. It is generally accepted that there is no sense automating a process that doesn’t work\, so in many cases\, process improvement or reengineering must come first. \n\n\n\nFive Key Lessons: \n\n\n\nFigure out your business strategy before you invest in anything. Leaders who aim to enhance organizational performance through the use of digital technologies often have a specific tool in mind. “Our organization needs a machine learning strategy\,” perhaps. But digital transformation should be guided by the broader business strategy.Leverage insiders. Organizations that seek transformations (digital and otherwise) frequently bring in an army of outside consultants who tend to apply one-size-fits-all solutions in the name of “best practices.” Rely instead on insiders — staff who have intimate knowledge about what works and what doesn’t in their daily operations.Design customer experience from the outside in. If the goal of DT is to improve customer satisfaction and intimacy\, then any effort must be preceded by a diagnostic phase with in-depth input from customers.Recognize employees’ fear of being replaced. When employees perceive that digital transformation could threaten their jobs\, they may consciously or unconsciously resist the changes. If the digital transformation then turns out to be ineffective\, management will eventually abandon the effort and their jobs will be saved (or so the thinking goes). It is critical for leaders to recognize those fears and to emphasize that the digital transformation process is an opportunity for employees to upgrade their expertise to suit the marketplace of the future.Bring Silicon Valley start-up culture inside. Silicon Valley start-ups are known for their agile decision making\, rapid prototyping and flat structures. The process of digital transformation is inherently uncertain: changes need to be made provisionally and then adjusted; decisions need to be made quickly; and groups from all over the organization need to get involved.\n\n\n\nC.    Laws and Regulations\n\n\n\n\nRegulation is rising on the risk radar\nRegulating Financial Risks\nRegulating Non-Financial Risks\nAML Regulations\nFinancial Reporting\nLaws and Regulations and the cost of Compliance\nLaws and Regulations in the Digital Age\nLaws and Regulations and the Competitive Environment\nLaws and Regulations and the cost of operations.\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nH.E. Dr. Joseph Torbey\, Chairman\, World Union of Arab Bankers\, and Chairman of the Executive Committee\, Union of Arab Banks \nMr. Wissam H. Fattouh\, Secretary General\, Union of Arab Banks and World Union of Arab Bankers \nH.E. Mr. El Sayed Mohamed Marzouk El Kosayer\, Minister\, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt \nH.E. Mrs Kholoud El-Saqqaf\, Chairman\, Social Security Investment Fund \nDr. Leila Dagher\, Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Institute of Financial Economics\, American University of Beirut (AUB) \nDr. Mohammad Fheili\, Risk Strategist and Capacity Building Expert \nMr. Chahdan E. Jebeyli\, Group Chief Legal & Compliance Officer\, Bank Audi Group \nDr. Mohamad Hussein Mansour\, Consultant at the World Bank Group\, Lecturer at AUB and LAU \n\n\n\n\nDownload Brochure and Agenda\n\n\n\n\n[rtec-registration-form event=4122] \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/the-first-banking-executive-online-conference-2021/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210324T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210325T150000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210305T142708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T142708Z UID:4057-1616590800-1616684400@wuab.org SUMMARY:Modernization of US AML/CFT Laws and Regulations - Impact on Financial Institutions outside the USA DESCRIPTION:Overview: \n\n\n\nOn January 1\, 2021\, the US Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. AMLA includes substantial reforms to US anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) laws since the Banking Secrecy Act of 1970 and the USA Patriot Act of 2001. These reforms will have impact not only on US financial institutions\, but also on foreign financial institutions which should be aware of the recent developments that complements the enforcement activity involving US sanctions/embargoes\, export controls\, and anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws. Non-US banks\, engaged in business with US banks through correspondent relationships\, should be familiar with the AMLA provisions that may apply to their activities. On the other hand\, the US continues its fight against serious human rights abuses and corruption through the Global Magnitsky Act\, by imposing financial sanctions and visa restrictions on persons determined to be involved in these acts anywhere in the world. This Act has also implications on foreign financial institutions. So\, the aim of this webinar is to provide the attendees with an overview of the above along with practical insights and examples to implement at their bank. \n\n\n\nOutline: \n\n\n\nThe US Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) of 2020 \n\n\n\n\nModernization and Reforms of AML/CFT Laws and Regulations\nMajor Changes to the AML/CFT Landscape\nBeneficial Ownership Reporting\nEnhanced AML Whistleblower Program\nExpanded Subpoena PowerModernized Regime and Enhanced ResourcesIncreased Penalties for AML ViolationsSAR Sharing with Foreign Affiliates\nNational AML Priorities\nCongressional ReportingImpact on Foreign Financial InstitutionsUpdate of AML/CFT Policy and Procedures\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Brochure\n\n\n\nDownload Registration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation – Day 1\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation – Day 2\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/modernization-of-us-aml-cft-laws-and-regulations-impact-on-financial-institutions-outside-the-usa/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210315T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210316T120000 DTSTAMP:20260606T081026 CREATED:20210301T120049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T120049Z UID:4045-1615798800-1615896000@wuab.org SUMMARY:COVID-19 REGULATORY AND BEST PRACTICE RELIEF MEASURES RELATED TO BASEL III\, IV AND THE IFRS 9 DESCRIPTION:BACKGROUND: \n\n\n\nThe International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9) was introduced as a result of the 2008 financial crisis to make accounting for loan losses more forward-looking and to give markets better information about where Banks may be exposed to risk. The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in an extensive array of Government-backed measures to support businesses and the encouragement of payment moratoriums and interest waivers. \n\n\n\n Regulatory authorities worldwide in general and in the region specifically are keen not to see a drastic increase in expected credit losses (ECLs) or massive staging downgrades\, as this would constrain the amount of capital Banks have which enables them to continue lending to further support the economy. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published statements on how the principles in IFRS 9 may be used to best reflect the economic and practical realities of the crisis. \n\n\n\nThe Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) published its measures to reflect the impact of COVID-19\, which encompass considerations for IFRS 9 reporting\, but also looks at how they could interact with regulatory capital. The so-called Basel IV has been delayed to 2023. On the other hand\, LIBOR transition might also be subject to extension. \n\n\n\nThese measures support the provision of lending by Banks to the real economy and provide additional operational capacity for Banks and supervisors to respond to the immediate financial stability priorities. \n\n\n\nSince we recognize that this crisis has significant implications on the business environment in the region\, we kindly invite you to a Live Virtual Training that will discuss the main technical clarifications to highlight how Banks can reflect the risk-reducing effect of these measures when conducting business. \n\n\n\nOBJECTIVES: \n\n\n\nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\nUnderstand all the aspects of the current and unfolding situation and impact on key sectors;Understand how long would a COVID-19-Induced Recession last;Understand the forms of post-COVID-19 recovery;Discuss measures introduced by regulators worldwide and in the region to ensure that the global banking system remains financially and operationally resilient;BCBS decision to defer the Basel III implementation;ECL accounting treatment;Transitional arrangements for the regulatory capital treatment of ECL accounting;Changes with respect to Global Systemically Important Banks.\n\n\n\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND? \n\n\n\nRisk Management staff across the boardCapital Management and Basel implementation staffIFRS implementation staffPortfolio Management staffTreasury and Capital Markets staffFinancial Management and Financial Control staffCompliance staffRelationship Managers and Account ManagersInternal Auditors and External AuditorsOn-site and off-site supervisors and regulatory authorities\n\n\n\nMAIN TOPICS: \n\n\n\nDAY 1: \n\n\n\nEconomic impact of the COVID-19;Loans subject to government guarantees new treatment;Deferral of Basel III Implementation Dates;Treatment of modified debt;Use of reasonable and supportable forward-looking information;Treatment of payment holidays granted voluntarily due to regulatory or other policy encouragement.\n\n\n\nDAY 2: \n\n\n\nDefinition of the IFRS 9 significant increase in credit risk (SICR) during the pandemic;How to assess Credit Risk based on rescheduled payments;Impact of payment holidays or other relief measures on the forbearance status of the loans. The impact of other business support measures;Transitional measures relaxation;Transitional rules on impact of ECL provisions on CET 1 capital. (BCBS)Forecasting and multiple economic scenarios;Reporting and disclosure.\n\n\n\n\nDownload Brochure\n\n\n\nDownload Registration Form\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Presentation\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Location: Sheraton Cairo Hotel \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Date: April 27-28\, 2026 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Time: 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\nOverview \n\n\nThe Arab banking region is entering a new phase in its financial inclusion journey. Egypt’s achievement of 77.6% financial inclusion—adding over 54 million citizens to the formal financial system—represents not merely a national milestone but a reference point for emerging markets globally. As countries across the Arab world accelerate their own inclusion agendas\, the lessons emerging from the Egyptian experience\, combined with perspectives from the broader Arab region and international markets\, create a rare opportunity for cross-regional dialogue and learning. \nAs the region prepares for the next horizon\, critical questions emerge. How do we move beyond access to genuine economic formalization? What actually works in bringing informal merchants and small enterprises into the formal system? How can sustainability become integral to inclusive growth rather than an add-on compliance exercise? And as digital financial services expand\, how do we regulate in ways that protect consumers while enabling innovation? These are not theoretical questions. They are the daily challenges facing financial institutions across the Arab world. \nThis two-day forum is designed for the professionals tasked with answering them. It brings together heads of financial inclusion\, retail banking\, MSME lending\, risk\, compliance\, digital channels\, and sustainability from across the region to examine what the next five years demand from their institutions. The agenda moves from strategic foresight to operational reality—what succeeded in the previous cycle\, what the regulatory trajectory indicates\, and how leading institutions are positioning themselves for the phase ahead. For those responsible for shaping their institution’s inclusion agenda\, this is the forum to understand what comes next and how to prepare. \nTopics of Discussion\nCrafting Financial Inclusion Strategy: \n\nRole of financial inclusion in fostering sustainable economic development\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025 Formation Journey: Demand-side survey\, collaborations and partnerships with ministries\, authorities & ecosystem enablers to form the financial inclusion strategy and highlighting CBE role in leading & coordinating the efforts\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy Pillars and target segments\nFinancial Inclusion 2022-2025 achievements and numbers: Numbers and growth percentages (overall 77.6% with growth 219% from 2016 – women 71.4% with growth 316% from 2016 – Youth 56.8% with growth 79% from 2020)\nFinancial Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 Formation: re-conduct the demand-side survey\, focus on usage\, formulating new regulations to help reach the vision\, extending the collaborations between the different stakeholders aiming for a nation-wide strategy\, role of the banks in creating consumer-empowering products and services\n\nDigital Innovation: The Engine of Sustainable Inclusion \n\nHow leveraging on the digital banking platforms supports accessibility to the unbanked and underserved populations as well as lowers the costs for the financial institutions\nThe collaborations between banks and fintech companies as well as MNOs to foster digital payments\nHow the less cash law and InstaPay enable secure\, accessible\, and affordable financial services hence accelerate sustainable financial inclusion and the digital economy\nDigital identity and e-KYC: regulations for easy customer onboarding in progress\n\nFrom Financial Literacy to Financial Health \n\nMeasuring the Financial Literacy gap- Why knowledge doesn’t translate into action.\nCreating Financial Literacy programs for different target groups.\nCreating a successful Business case through Financial Literacy.\nRole of digital financial literacy in combatting financial fraud.\nRole of Financial Institutions in enabling lasting financial wellbeing.\nMeasuring impact of Financial Literacy programs\n\nThe Role of Databases in advancing financial inclusion and sustainability \n\nRole of Machine learning & AI in promoting FI data\nCapitalizing on the MSMEs financial & non-financial data to formulate an alternative scoring model with the different governmental institutions input: MSMEs credit data and Alternative Scoring Model\nWomen-led businesses and closing the gender finance gap.\n\n\nEmpowering women entrepreneurs by improving access to finance\, networks\, and tailored banking services.\nChallenges and opportunities for the women-owned and led MSMEs.\n\nGreen Finance: \nNavigating Legislative & Regulatory Hurdles \n\nPolicy Barriers: Identifying laws that slow the green transition.\nRegulatory Innovation: Designing flexible frameworks that invite sustainable investment.\nIncentivizing Green: Tax policies that channel capital toward sustainability.\nA Common Language: The need for unified green project classifications to guide investors.\n\nThe EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): A Banking Perspective \n\nAssessing the Impact: What CBAM means for exporters to Europe.\nEmerging Market Realities: The unique challenges facing developing economies.\nFrom Risk to Opportunity: Investing in renewables and efficiency gains.\nA Coordinated Response: How governments and banks can support affected industries.\n\nInnovative Finance: Alternative Data for Credit Assessment for Micro\, Small and Medium Enterprises \n\nData Beyond Credit Bureaus: The promise of alternative data in the Arab region.\nHow alternative data could support informal sector to access to the financial services\nNew Data Sources: Utility payments\, digital transactions\, e-wallets\, and POS history.\nPrivacy First: Protecting customer data in non-traditional lending.\nThe Credit Bureau Evolution: Behavioral scoring and expanded data access.\nRisk Mitigation: The role of credit guarantee schemes in alternative finance.\n\nDigital Transformation & MSME Supply Chain Finance \n\nEnabling Regulation: Central banks as architects of the digital finance ecosystem.\nSupply Chain Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable MSMEs.\nPlatform Power: How supply chain finance platforms enhance corporate liquidity.\nBanks as Enablers: Fueling e-commerce and digital adoption.\nDFIs as Catalysts: Building capacity and innovating products for supply chain finance.\nOptimizing supply chain finance to drive the long-term sustainability of MSMEs\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brochure \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Agenda \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Sponsorship Kit \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Event Photos URL:https://wuab.org/event/covid-19-regulatory-and-best-practice-relief-measures-related-to-basel-iii-iv-and-the-ifrs-9/ 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