It is a pleasure and honor for me to welcome you to the forthcoming
50th IOSCO Annual Meeting which we are hosting in Doha on 12-14 May
2025.
As you know, Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) won the honor to host this
meeting after having your votes and trust. We, in turn, promise you that it will
be one of the most successful IOSCO annual meetings if not the most successful
ever, because since the announcement of winning the honor of hosting, we are
determined with a strong will, to provide all the reasons for success, and to
create all favorable conditions to ensure that the meeting includes useful
working sessions, and exchange of ideas and opinions within discussions
enriching the purposeful constructive dialogue, in a way that provide joint
benefit for all of us, the capital market regulators and financial sectors we
represent.
We will soon gather at one of Doha’s iconic landmarks, Sheraton Grand Doha Hotel,
which has hosted numerous international conferences and meetings over the past
decades, to further strengthen our cooperation and discuss together various
issues and developments facing the capital markets in our countries.
At Sheraton Grand Doha Hotel, we will hold joint meetings during which we will
highlight a series of matters that are directly related to our activities and
areas of work as securities regulators, such as protecting investors, achieving
financial stability, promoting reliable and sustainable investments, and
transforming the challenges that may face us into opportunities that support the
growth and stability
of capital markets, and represent ,on the other hand, opportunities for new
areas through which the process of attracting and employing capital can be
enhanced to serve the development of capital markets, technological and digital
developments, in addition to the topics of artificial intelligence that seems to
lead the great transformation witnessed by the capital markets, and how we can
use this advanced technology in the service of the financial sector, and raise
its performance to advanced levels that return to the investment environment
with more growth, stability and sustainability.
Through this interactive website of the IOSCO 50th Annual Meeting, we
seek to provide an interactive E-portal for all participants or those wishing to
participate in the Meeting, as the website provides a window to receive
applications for participation and electronic registration, and another to
browse the meeting agenda and find out the key speakers, the topics will be
covered during the meeting term,
as well as the venue and the direction of the hotel hosting the meeting.
The meeting website also includes information about the State of Qatar and the
city of Doha, a unique tourist destination that combines ancient heritage with
modern architecture, charming beaches, cultural museums, shopping malls that
reflect the richness of diversity, entertainment venues and luxury restaurants
that will make your participation in the meeting a useful and unique experience.
Please let me be very optimistic about our upcoming meeting in Doha, because we
meet as one man, driven by hope, common goals and unified goals, to come up with
practical recommendations and very important results that support our firm
orientations and aspirations to find innovative solutions to all issues and
challenges facing us today, thereby raising the status of capital markets in our
countries, and
enhancing the performance of our work as regulatory and supervisory bodies over
such markets.
Looking forward to welcoming you warmly.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Tamy Bin Ahmad Al-Binali
CEO of Qatar Financial Markets Authority