Awards programme will likely be co-located with the Dubai FinTech Summit, the flagship occasion of Dubai Future Finance Week, increasing international visibility for Mena banking excellence
The Mena Banking Excellence Awards 2026: Retail, Digital & SME will happen as a part of Dubai Future Finance Week (DFFW) 2026. This marks a major milestone for the awards and additional strengthens Dubai’s place as a worldwide hub for monetary innovation, management and regulatory excellence.
Awards ceremony: 12 Might 2026
The awards ceremony will likely be held on 12 Might 2026 in Dubai, co-located with the Dubai FinTech Summit, the flagship occasion of Dubai Future Finance Week (happening from 11-15 Might 2026). Collectively, they create a high-profile platform connecting senior banking leaders, policymakers, innovators and traders shaping the way forward for monetary companies.
Introduced by MEED and powered by GlobalData’s Intelligence Centres, the Mena Banking Excellence Awards are independently validated by consultants from MEED, Retail Banker Worldwide, TS Lombard and Celent.
The programme supplies a strong, data-driven benchmark for excellence throughout retail, digital and SME banking within the Center East and North Africa, recognising establishments delivering measurable impression, innovation and efficiency.
“Becoming part of Dubai Future Finance Week marks a major step forward for the Mena Banking Excellence Awards,” mentioned Sarah Rizvi, banking and finance editor at MEED.
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“It places the region’s most progressive banks within a truly global forum: one that brings together financial leadership, innovation and policy at scale. This alignment significantly enhances the visibility, credibility and strategic relevance of the awards.”
Essa Kazim, governor of DIFC, mentioned: “Dubai’s vision is to shape the global economy, and Dubai Future Finance Week is a natural extension of that ambition. The week will strengthen this position by enabling engagement across finance, technology, regulation and investment, in support of the ambitions set out under the Dubai Economic Agenda D33.”
Arif Amiri, CEO of DIFC Authority, added that “Dubai Future Finance Week reflects our commitment to providing platforms that bring the global financial community together to navigate change and identify new opportunities.”
Entries for the awards at the moment are open
As a part of the Dubai Future Finance Week programme, the awards are complemented by CXO Management Suppose Tanks, a part of MEED and GlobalData’s World Networking Collection. These closed-door boards convene senior banking executives for peer-level dialogue on strategic priorities shaping the subsequent part of monetary management, together with synthetic intelligence governance, digital resilience, sustainability and inclusive progress.
Entries for the Mena Banking Excellence Awards 2026: Retail, Digital & SME at the moment are open, inviting banks and monetary establishments throughout the area to submit their initiatives for unbiased recognition on a worldwide stage.
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