Company website: https://www.bankfab.com/en-ae/personal

Profile

About First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest institutions, offers an extensive range of tailor-made solutions, products and services to its customers. Through its strategic offerings, it looks to meet the banking needs of customers across the world via its market-leading Corporate and Investment Banking and Personal Banking franchises.

Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the bank’s international network spans five continents, providing the global relationships, expertise and financial strength to support local, regional and international businesses seeking to do business at home and abroad.

With total assets of AED 955 Billion (USD 260 Billion) as of September-end 2020, FAB is rated Aa3/AA-/AA- by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, respectively, the strongest combined ratings of any bank in the MENA region.

The Bank has been ranked by Global Finance as the Safest Bank in the UAE and the Middle East, and the 32nd Safest Bank globally.

To empower its customers and clients to Grow Stronger, FAB initiated a powerful movement, which goes beyond banking. The Grow Stronger movement represents the bank’s promise to support its stakeholders’ goals and growth ambitions, providing ideas, tools and expertise to help them become stronger, today and in the future.

For further information, visit: www.bankfab.com

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Event Sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2024 - Platinum Sponsor

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2024 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023 - Platinum Sponsor

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023 - Gold Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022 - Platinum Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021 - Platinum Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference - Platinum Sponsor

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019 - Platinum Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019 - Platinum Sponsor

Contributors

Loulwa Alnuaimi

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• Chairperson’s closing remarks and close of Day One
• Chairpersons Remarks

Bhupinder Singh

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• What is the cost of capital in the ‘new’ market environment? How to issue in volatile markets

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023

• Bonds vs. loans: What is the cost of capital?

Tom Emmet

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• Assessing the outlook for the IPO boom in the region

Rula AlQadi

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• Navigating bond and loans markets: How are banks and FIs funding themselves?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How are GCC banks navigating through an environment of low rates, low oil price and low GDP (and loan) growth?

Simon Ballard

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Governance, credit events and the broader impact on GCC market sentiment

Neal Lindsay

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• What is the short, medium and long-term impact of Coronavirus on GCC real estate?

Tonmoy Andalib

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• Syndicating loans in the ‘new’ normal: How and where are banks lending? What price and what structure?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022

• Syndicated loan markets dynamics: How can banks meet borrower demands for better pricing and longer tenor?
• Chairman's remarks

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• Syndicated loan markets: Can banks bridge the gap between borrower demands for better pricing and longer tenor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How are syndicated loan bankers balancing structure and liquidity to meet client pricing expectations

Tonmoy Andalib

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• Analysing the supply and demand factors that will drive syndicated loan markets in 2020

Mona Al Tawil

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019

• Chairman’s opening remarks
• Chairman’s closing remarks and close of conference

Neil Lindsay

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Real Estate Finance & Investment Saudi Arabia 2019

• Making commercial developments bankable - learning from best practice and avoiding pitfalls

Chavan Bhogaita

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• C-Suite Roundtable: What are the funding strategies for region’s top-tier corporates in the year ahead?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022

• CFO Roundtable: How are the GCC’s leading borrowers and issuers navigating a “post-COVID world”?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Sarah Pirzada Usmani

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• What are investors looking for from issuers and borrowers in the Middle East? How can corporates demonstrate their sustainability credentials to attract investment?

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023

• How have issuers benefited from going green and how have banks supported their transition?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022

• Examining the role of FIs, issuers and investors in pushing forward MENA’s transition finance agenda

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2024

• Local, regional or international: Who is underwriting, structuring and syndicating loans in and out of Saudi Arabia?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• Sustainable ESG and greenwashing: How quickly and efficiently can companies transition to an ESG framework?

Project, ECA & Structured Finance MENA 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Balancing ESG with structure and liquidity: Is there a liquidity and/or price advantage for green and sustainable debt?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• How to define and implement an ESG policy: Where to start

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2019

• Financing MEA’s solar and water projects: How can the structures used to successfully finance Abu Dhabi’s pipeline be applied elsewhere in the region?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Naush Malik

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Creativity and adaptability in turbulent times: Raising capital through the pandemic

Project, ECA & Structured Finance Middle East & Africa 2020

• Private debt and structured credit: How to structure loan deals with bond-esque features to attract institutional investors

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019

• Loan Financing in Saudi Arabia: How can borrowers and lenders work together to extract maximum mutual benefit?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Marco Massucco

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Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Fawaz Abusneineh

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• Chairperson’s opening remarks

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022

• Chairperson’s opening remarks

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• Weathering the COVID storm and the economic after-shocks: How are corporates approaching funding through volatile times

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Sovereign strategies: How are governments planning to finance their roads to recovery while maintaining their ratings?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• Navigating through the markets: Pricing and making sense of GCC credit spreads

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Saudi Arabia 2019

• Case study: Preparing, structuring, packaging and distributing Saudi Arabia’s first-ever corporate bond

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Andy Cairns

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• Chairperson’s closing remarks and close of Day One

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• Chairman’s opening remarks

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2019

Articles from Bonds & Loans

• 3 Mar 2020: Volatility Could See Gulf Issuers Shun Bonds for Loan Markets