Gulf Transition & Sustainable Finance 2025

30 April 2025, 8:45 AM UAE, Abu Dhabi

Lead sponsor

Emirates NBD (DFM: Emirates NBD) is a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million active customers. As at 31st December 2024, total assets were AED 997 billion, (equivalent to approx. USD 271 billion). The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, India, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Russia and Bahrain and representative offices in China and Indonesia with a total of 848 branches and 4,601 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.87 billion. 

Emirates NBD Group serves its customers (individuals, businesses, governments, and institutions) and helps them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations. The Group is a key participant in the global digital banking industry with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of its branches. The Group also operates Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD, with close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing bank in the region.

Emirates NBD contributes to the construction of a sustainable future as an active participant and supporter of the UAE’s main development and sustainability initiatives, including financial wellness and the inclusion of people of determination. Emirates NBD is committed to supporting the UAE’s Year of Sustainability as Principal Banking Partner of COP28 and an early supporter to the Dubai Can sustainability initiative, a city-wide initiative aimed to reduce use of single-use plastic bottled water.

Gold sponsor

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.

T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence that investors can rely on - now, and over the long term. Founded in 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland, T. Rowe Price’s clients have entrusted the firm with US $1.61 trillion in assets under management1.

T. Rowe Price is committed to responsible investment and its disciplined investment approach is rooted in proprietary research. T. Rowe Price’s experienced investment professionals around the globe actively seek to identify investment risks and opportunities, with ESG factors as one of many considerations in its investment process. T. Rowe Price believes its principled investing approach helps the firm pursue better outcomes for its investors over the long term.

For more information, visit www.troweprice.com/blueeconomy

1Data as of 31 December 2024. Subject to adjustment. Firmwide assets under management include assets managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and its investment advisory affiliates

Silver sponsor

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Credit Agricole Group, the 9th largest banking group worldwide in terms of 2023 balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2024). More than 9,500 employees across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world. Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital markets activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade. The Bank is committed to accompany its clients on the transition to the low carbon economy and to steer its activity toward net zero. In line with the strategy, Credit Agricole CIB is a global leader in sustainable finance (co-founded the Equator Principles, co-authored the Green Bond Principles and Sustainability Linked Bond Principles).

For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.com

LSEG's approach to sustainability is guided by LSEG's purpose to drive financial stability, empower economies and enable customers to create sustainable growth.

Given LSEG's central position within financial markets, its global presence and role throughout the trade lifecycle, we have a critical role in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem, contributing to the global imperative to decarbonise, innovating and growing the green economy, while ensuring that everyone can benefit from sustainable economic growth.

Our global sustainability strategy is based on our objective to be a strategic enabler and steward of sustainable growth. We are focused on delivering this in four key ways: providing sustainable finance products and solutions; engaging the sustainable finance market and policy makers; transforming our own operations; and empowering communities.

https://www.lseg.com/

Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available.

For more information, visit www.sustainablefitch.com

Bronze sponsor

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Banking. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.

For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Strategic partner