Ethical Finance in Europe: a 360° review and demand-gap analysis with Europe's leading Islamic finance experts. What opportunities for the diaspora in Europe?
Two days to review the state of Islamic finance in Europe, analyse the demand gap and explore solutions, with a plenary dedicated to the diaspora. Geneva, October 5 & 6, 2026.
Strong demand, near-inexistent supply
Halal real-estate financing is at the heart of demand, while supply remains almost non-existent. What solutions can close this gap?
With strong economic impact
From dormant savings to productive investments: sukuk, Islamic venture capital and SME financing.
Measure, finance, transform
Aligning Islamic and ethical finance with the Sustainable Development Goals: impact, green taxonomy, sustainable sukuk and climate finance.
Demand, training, supply.
Opening of the Forum and introduction to the Africa-Europe diaspora capital corridor.
Swiss retail, retirement and mortgage demand; wealth structuring, Zakat, taxation and Islamic civil law.
Training the professionals who will build Europe's Islamic finance supply.
Innovation showcase, synthesis and floor Q&A.
Recap of the key take-aways from Session 1.
Lightning presentations: can fintech and digital advisory reach the retail middle market?
Take-aways and proposals for Europe, then a global comparative view against the Gulf and Malaysian markets.
Open to the room, covering both sessions.
The Global Islamic Finance Awards are presented in Switzerland for the first time.
The President and CEO of AIIF Global Advisory, organiser of the Forum, welcomes the room and hands over to the moderator.
The CEO of Impaxis Securities opens with the Impaxis diaspora bond deal as the session's live case study, then moderates throughout.
Pictet Wealth Management, Geneva: the private-banking view of diaspora wealth held in Switzerland, set against diaspora bond yields (6.40% to 6.95%).
SGI-IFI, AMF-UMOA and BRVM: moderated exchange on structuring, regulating and listing sovereign diaspora instruments, around seven minutes each.
Banque Islamique du Sénégal, Tamweel Africa Holding, Coris Bank International Sénégal and KF Titrisation: moderated exchange on retail, pan-regional and securitised routes to market, around six minutes each.
FONSIS, Société Africaine de Raffinage and FAISE/DGSE: moderated exchange on equity co-investment, a live expansion case study and the state's own diaspora investment fund, around seven minutes each.
ICD (IsDB Group), the International Organization for Migration and the OIC Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in Geneva: moderated exchange on de-risking and catalysing diaspora flows at multilateral level, around seven minutes each.
Moderator and host close together on what a diaspora member, an arranger and a regulator each need from one another to turn the panel into next year's transaction.
Open to the room.
Programme subject to changes. Times in Geneva time (CET).
Connect with global ethical finance decision-makers in Geneva.
