MANAMA: A week-long series of activities is lined up later this month to explore disruptive innovation in financial services, the Economic Development Board (EDB) announced yesterday.
The first Fintastic Bahrain Week from February 19-21 will bring together around 700 international and regional financiers, economists, investors, bankers and policy makers to discuss and debate challenges and future opportunities for the global financial sector, and what this means for the GCC, with a primary focus on innovations like fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence and big data, it said .