The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), one of the world's leading and fastest growing onshore business and financial centres, participated in 'Qatar Day', a unique forum for senior representatives from the UK and Qatar to further develop the strong ties that exist between the two countries' respective financial services sectors.

Hosted by the City of London Corporation in partnership with the UK's Department for International Trade and Qatar Central Bank (QCB), the inaugural event saw approximately 120 C-level executives and senior representatives from the UK and Qatar's key national and financial services institutions that included Qatar Development Bank, Qatar Central Bank and Qatar Financial Markets Authority come together in the city of London.

The event programme focused on asset management, capital markets, Fintech and the cyber security sectors of financial services. Yousuf Mohammed Al-Jaida, CEO, QFC, took part in one of the panel discussions titled 'Turning Challenges to Competitive Advantages: Asset Management in the 21st Century' which covered themes such as regulatory improvements and future opportunities for asset management in Qatar.

Discussions at the event highlighted Qatar's strong economic performance and the recognition of the Qatari capital market as "the best and most important" financial market in the Arab region and "one of the top 10 financial markets in the world", according to The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2017-2018.