Awards programme might be co-located with the Dubai FinTech Summit, the flagship match of Dubai Long run Finance Week, increasing international visibility for Mena banking excellence
The Mena Banking Excellence Awards 2026: Retail, Virtual & SME will happen as a part of Dubai Long run Finance Week (DFFW) 2026. This marks a vital milestone for the awards and additional strengthens Dubai’s place as an international hub for monetary innovation, management and regulatory excellence.
Awards rite: 12 Might 2026
The awards rite might be hung on 12 Might 2026 in Dubai, co-located with the Dubai FinTech Summit, the flagship match of Dubai Long run Finance Week (going down from 11-15 Might 2026). In combination, they devise a high-profile platform connecting senior banking leaders, policymakers, innovators and traders shaping the way forward for monetary services and products.
Offered by way of MEED and powered by way of GlobalData’s Intelligence Centres, the Mena Banking Excellence Awards are independently validated by way of mavens from MEED, Retail Banker Global, TS Lombard and Celent.
The programme supplies a strong, data-driven benchmark for excellence throughout retail, virtual and SME banking within the Heart East and North Africa, recognising establishments handing over measurable affect, innovation and function.
“Becoming part of Dubai Future Finance Week marks a major step forward for the Mena Banking Excellence Awards,” stated Sarah Rizvi, banking and finance editor at MEED.
“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, stated: “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 are actually open
As a part of the Dubai Long run Finance Week programme, the awards are complemented by way of CXO Management Suppose Tanks, a part of MEED and GlobalData’s World Networking Collection. Those closed-door boards convene senior banking executives for peer-level discussion on strategic priorities shaping the following section of economic management, together with synthetic intelligence governance, virtual resilience, sustainability and inclusive expansion.
Entries for the Mena Banking Excellence Awards 2026: Retail, Virtual & SME are actually open, inviting banks and monetary establishments around the area to post their projects for impartial popularity on an international degree.
