The Institute for International Research has confirmed that e-Bank 2002, a regional summit for the financial services sector, will take place on September 21–24, 2002, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dubai. e-Bank, which follows the standard format of its international counterparts in London and New York, was established three years ago by the Institute for International Research. Its aim was to provide a vehicle for uniting banking professionals worldwide in a definitive Middle East forum whilst delivering the resources to share experiences of the new digital economy that is ripping up en masse many of the codes of traditional banking orthodoxy.
As part of the announcement, IIR yesterday issued a plea to the region's leading bankers and IT services Groups to recognise the opportunities presented by e-Bank 2002. "Our biggest threat in this industry is complacency and mistrust. It is time for the IT and financial services sector to unite in a shared vision of where we are going in this region - and to define, at least provisionally, how we can operate within the global economy whilst protecting the fundamental traditions of this part of the world," Anca Westley, Event Director continued. — (menareport.com)
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