The Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) participated in the activities of the Future of Finance Forum, within the activities of the 13th session of the “AIM” Investment Summit, which was held in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates on May 7-9, 2024. The summit aims to shed light on the investment landscape in light of the global transformations at various levels and how to adapt to these international developments in order to harness the sustainability of economic development globally.
The CEO of the ASE, Mazen Wathaifi, participated as a keynote speaker in a round table that included a number of heads of central banks and CEOs of international stock exchanges to talk about the changes and transformations taking place in the global investment scene that resulted from rapid progress in technology, geopolitical issues, supply chain disruptions, and sustainability, and strategies for dealing with these conditions and developments. How to harness the opportunities resulting from innovations and technology and confront the accompanying challenges.
Wathaifi pointed to the stability and ability of the Jordanian economy to overcome challenges, as evidenced by international institutions, and to the most important developments at the level of the investment environment in Jordan, starting with the economic modernization vision and the initiatives and projects it included that aimed to enhance the investment climate and investment environment, and the issuance of the Investment Environmental Law and the subsequent legislation, procedures, and automation of procedures and services regarding investment and the unprecedented incentives it includes.
He also touched on the most important developments in the Jordanian capital market, the measures taken by the ASE to enhance its competitiveness, the investment climate in the market, the process of digital transformation, legislative developments, and measures aimed at enhancing sustainability in the market.
This summit brought together an elite group of leaders, government officials, decision and policy makers, businessmen, industry experts, major regional and international investors, and major companies and global organizations, in order to urge the global investment scene to come up with innovative solutions to confront current and future challenges and changes.