First consultation within the sequence options Hamed Ali, CEO of Dubai Monetary Marketplace and Nasdaq Dubai, on Dubai’s long-term way to creating its capital markets.
Dubai: The Govt of Dubai Media Place of work (GDMO) has introduced a brand new Global Media Briefing sequence, providing main world media a better take a look at the imaginative and prescient, concepts and tasks shaping Dubai’s long run via conversations with the leaders using the advance of important sectors.
The primary consultation within the sequence featured Hamed Ali, Leader Government Officer of Dubai Monetary Marketplace (DFM) and Nasdaq Dubai, who met with representatives of world media for an in-depth dialogue at the transformation of Dubai’s capital markets and the long-term methods underpinning the emirate’s upward push as an international monetary centre.
All through the consultation, Hamed Ali reviewed the efficiency of each DFM, the emirate’s primary fairness trade, and Nasdaq Dubai, the world trade specialising in world listings and fixed-income tools – two separate exchanges, each and every serving a definite base of issuers.
Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of the Dubai Media Council and Director Basic of the Govt of Dubai Media Place of work, stated: “The International Media Briefing series is designed to encourage thoughtful dialogue and provide deeper context around the themes shaping the next chapter of Dubai’s evolution. It creates an opportunity for international media to engage directly with the leaders driving the emirate’s development and to better understand the strategies behind its continued progress.”
Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of the Dubai Media Council and Director General of the Government of Dubai Media Office. Picture credit: GDMO
During the briefing, Hamed Ali reflected on Dubai’s long-term approach to developing its capital markets, highlighting the role of regulatory innovation, strong market infrastructure and sustained investor confidence in supporting growth.
The discussion also explored Dubai’s efforts to broaden market participation and the importance of innovation and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, in strengthening the competitiveness and resilience of the emirate’s financial markets.
Hamed Ali highlighted the remarkable transformation of Dubai’s capital markets, noting that the DFM’s market capitalisation has surpassed AED1 trillion, representing 191% growth since 2020. The market’s robust performance was further reflected in the DFM General Index’s 17.2% growth in 2025, with average daily trading value exceeding AED1 billion.
The first session in the series featured Hamed Ali, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Nasdaq Dubai. Picture credit: GDMO
Over the past four years, DFM has facilitated AED47 billion in capital raising through 12 initial public offerings, attracting AED1.3 trillion in investor demand and welcoming more than 465,000 new investors.
Hamed Ali also highlighted Arena, DFM’s next-generation capital-raising platform, designed to strengthen Dubai’s private capital ecosystem and support SMEs and high-growth companies. The platform enables liquidity for private investors while connecting issuers with DFM’s base of more than 1.2 million investors, creating new pathways to growth. By broadening access to capital and strengthening connections between businesses and investors, Arena is helping accelerate the emergence of the next generation of high-growth companies and future unicorns.
Turning to Nasdaq Dubai, Hamed Ali said the exchange recorded 33 new fixed-income listings worth US$13.8 billion since the beginning of 2026, with international issuers accounting for 40%.
The total current outstanding value of sukuk listed on the exchange is US$98.6 billion, reinforcing Dubai’s position as a leading global centre for sukuk and debt capital markets. Hamed Ali also highlighted the success of the Sovereign Retail T-Sukuk Programme, the UAE’s first sovereign sukuk targeted at retail investors, whose inaugural issuance was upsized from AED50 million to AED100 million in response to investor demand.
The issuance was oversubscribed nine times, attracting AED445 million in subscription requests across 18,422 applications. The programme is now listed on Nasdaq Dubai and is trading on the secondary market.
He said: “Each and every initiative we pursue is guided via a long-term imaginative and prescient to construct a deeper, extra dynamic and extra obtainable capital marketplace. Markets are constructed on self belief, and self belief is earned via transparency, innovation and constant execution. Our position is to make sure Dubai continues to provide a platform the place companies can develop, traders can take part with self belief and capital can waft successfully.”
Hend Fekri, Director of Strategic Media Relations at the Government of Dubai Media Office, said: “Thru this initiative, we’re making a platform for world media to achieve first-hand perception from the folk main Dubai’s key sectors. Those conversations will foster lasting relationships and a richer figuring out of Dubai’s construction.”
The Global Media Briefing sequence, which is able to proceed all over the 12 months, paperwork a part of GDMO’s efforts to fortify engagement with world media via growing alternatives for knowledgeable conversations with senior executive officers and trade leaders.
