Five facts you didn’t know about Sibos 2013
Dubai 16 September 2013 - SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries, today gave an insight into hosting Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event in Dubai.
- In a year of anniversaries, SWIFT – now in its 40th year – is today celebrating the company’s 35th Sibos,10 years of the Standards Forum and 5 years of Innotribe.
- Hosting the conference in the Middle East for the first time, 7300 delegates have registered so far and the number is still rising.
- Over four days, there will be 211 conference sessions with 479 speakers.
- Accommodating 29 new exhibitors (24 of which are from the Middle East), the Sibos exhibition space is 14,000 square metres, holds 240 exhibitors and contains 475 units. The biggest exhibitor stand on site is 192 square metres.
- To host a conference of this scale, 66 containers, 36 tonnes of air freight and 6 tonnes of courier freight have been shipped to Dubai.
“Sibos Dubai is going to be a very exciting event. We have a huge number of exhibitors – with a large number of new firms joining us this year – and we have already exceeded the expected number of delegate registrations. This creates the perfect environment for collaboration and discussion,” said Sven Bossu, Head of Sibos, at SWIFT.
“This year’s Sibos is already bigger than expected – evidence that this is the perfect time to bring this global financial event to Dubai. The support of the Middle East financial industry – clearly illustrated by the number of speakers and exhibitors from the region – will help to make this a huge success,” said Sido Bestani, Head of Middle East & North Africa, at SWIFT.
About SWIFTSWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.
