WAIFC Annual General Meeting

The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) gathers its 21 member hubs in Frankfurt for a strategically timed AGM held alongside SIBOS. With AI, sustainable finance, and green bond taxonomies topping the collective agenda, the 2025 conclave dedicates an entire day to peer-reviewing pilot projects from member centers—ranging from Dubai’s AI Festival to Hong Kong’s Earth Forum. Malta’s delegation, represented by FinanceMalta and MFSA, showcases pilot outcomes from its Digital Assets Forum and the island’s role in EU securitisation relaunch efforts. Academic-award finalists present AI-in-finance research, offering Maltese universities collaboration pathways in federated-learning credit models. The AGM’s policy communiqués frequently inform G20 and IMF working groups, so participation cements Malta’s influence in global standard-setting.

Side events include a joint workshop with Deutsche Börse on DLT-based bond issuance, highlighting Malta’s 2018 VFA Act as a regulatory precedent. Networking excursions to Stuttgart—courtesy of Stuttgart Financial—focus on Mittelstand SME financing, a sector analogous to Malta’s family-owned conglomerates. For attendees, the AGM provides unmatched visibility into how the world’s financial centers coordinate on cyber-resilience, talent mobility, and ESG disclosures—intel that Maltese banks and insurers can integrate into their own innovation roadmaps.

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