A range of leading institutions and governmental organisations have confirmed support of a top forum that will discuss the major challenges and opportunities from the perspectives of regulators, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds (SWF), bankers and politicians in Abu Dhabi Dhabi next month.

The seventh Global Financial Markets Forum (GFMF), organised by the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) will take place on March 1 and 2 at Emirates Palace.

It is also being supported by the Central Bank of the UAE, Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and Abu Dhabi Council for economic development.

Anton Martin, global head of Sales in NBAD’s Global Markets, said: “The support of the Central Bank and Government organisations is absolutely crucial to the team and NBAD is deeply appreciative and aware that their support is a major factor in making it possible for the team to organise a successful GFMF.”

Several prominent global and UAE-based companies joined GFMF 2015 as partners such as Aldar Properties, Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

List of GFMF partners include Etihad Airways, as the official airline partner; Abu Dhabi Aviation as an aviation partner; Senaat as the industrial partner; Thomson Reuters as the strategic knowledge partner; Bloomberg the multimedia partner; in addition to PWC, STS and Goldman Sachs.

GFMF 2015 Gold sponsors are Credit Agricole and Societe General.  GFMF 2015 Sponsors of other levels include Etihad Rail, Battersea Power Station, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Murex, Natixis, Robeco, Boeing, Cagamas, ANZ, BMO, BT global, Citi, Eurex, HSBC, Numerix, Saxo Bank and ICAP.
 
CNBC is the official international broadcast partner, which will be broadcasting live from the Forum, Sky News Arabia is the official Arabic broadcast, Cash & Trade is the official magazine and Oxford Business Group is the research partner. - TradeArabia News Service