Date: 29 - 30 September 2026
Location: Abu Dhabi
The AFCM Annual Conference 2026 took place in Abu Dhabi on 29-30 September, bringing together the capital markets community to discuss the trends shaping the region’s financial landscape. The conference was hosted by Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and explored topics including AI and digital transformation, market making, digital securities, derivatives, ETFs, and more.
Iosif Itkin, CEO and Co-founder of Exactpro and CTO of Murabex, attended the event to introduce participants to Murabex – a Shari’ah-compliant, community-driven commodity Murabaha platform designed to help financial institutions build reliable digital asset ecosystems within their jurisdictions.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.
About Murabex
Murabex is an enterprise-grade digital finance platform that enables financial institutions to streamline the execution of Murabaha agreements for their customers. As part of a community-driven collaborative service, it brings together prominent exchange and clearing members who not only serve their own customers but also provide liquidity to other participants. The result is a shared ecosystem where customer facilitation and liquidity provision mutually reinforce each other.
Anchor Islamic financing liquidity domestically. Concentrate flows within the national market by connecting local institutions, the national exchange and international investors through a trusted sovereign platform. Improve efficiency, broaden participation and retain more value locally.