Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2026

Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) is a yearly finance gathering hosted by Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the emirate's international financial centre. The fifth edition runs from 7 to 10 December 2026 at The Grand Steps on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi. Its patron is Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and the 2026 theme is "The Capital Community, Powered by Partnerships". The audience is institutional. The organiser expects more than 35,000 participants and over 800 speakers from sovereign wealth funds, banks, asset managers, regulators, policymakers and fintech and digital-asset firms. Featured names include Bill Winters of Standard Chartered, Jenny Johnson of Franklin Templeton, Tan Su Shan of DBS Group and Temasek chief Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara. In late September ADGM said more than 300 financial leaders, representing over $61 trillion in assets, had confirmed. The 2025 edition drew 819 speakers and saw 82 memorandums of understanding signed. ADFW is a cluster of events, not one hall. Official figures put the count at more than 70; a September update cited 75 events on eight stages, up from 60 on six stages in 2025. Each day has a theme: the Falcon Economy, global markets and macro trends first; asset management, private markets and wealth second; AI, fintech and digital assets third; sustainable finance and resilience last. Additions this year include AIMA's Global Hedge Fund Leadership Platform, a Hub71 Growth Stage, the CNBC AI Capital Stack Summit and a real estate summit. The Global Financial Regulators Summit is expected to bring in regulators from more than 50 countries, and partners such as Binance, UBS, Hanwha Finance, ADIO and Standard Chartered are collaborating on platforms, with stablecoins and tokenisation on the topic list. Tickets are sold through the official site, but no prices or ticket tiers had been published when this page was prepared, and the detailed 2026 agenda was not yet available. For affiliates and media buyers the fit is indirect. ADFW is built around institutional capital and regulation, and nothing on the published programme is aimed at performance marketing. It is most useful for teams working in forex, trading, crypto and fintech who need to follow how regulators approach tokenisation and digital assets, with the third day and the regulators' summit as the obvious sessions, and for vendors hoping to meet exchanges and financial institutions active in the UAE.