Session 3: Digital Assets, Digitalization and the Evolution of Islamic Financial Services

• The digitalization of Islamic financial services: what is working, what is viable and what is not? What do the answers to these questions mean for the evolution of Islamic financial services in Saudi Arabia?
• Does digitalization allow us to better address issues such as product authenticity and the minimization of uncertainty?
• Is the success of neobanks inevitable, and how will they change the market?
• How will the development, provision and distribution of digital Islamic financial services evolve in the near-term?
• How are global regulators creating an environment for the enhancement of the Islamic financial services’ sector digital infrastructure?
• Beyond retail: developing and distributing effective and attractive suites of Shariah compliant digital wealth management, investment and insurance solutions.
• The development of systems and software for Islamic banks: driving scale, integrity and efficiency.
• The tangible benefits of peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding: how these key technologies can be further applied to today’s banking and financial markets.
• The evolution of robo-advisory and digital investment managers: threat to or opportunity for incumbent money managers?
• How are Stablecoins, non-fungible tokens, utility tokens, equity tokens and other digital assets being applied to global financial markets?
• What is the potential for new and structured products based on cryptocurrencies for the global market: ETFs and complex leverage mechanisms such as DeFi?