Fourth Industrial Revolution under spotlight

C5 Accelerate, in partnership with Tamkeen, hosted Shaikh Khalifa bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain Bourse for the fifth edition of C5’s POLICY HACK series. The event, which took place at the Cloud 10 Campus in Sanabis, discussed how the Fourth Industrial Revolution combined with effective regulation and supervision, can expand the scope, scale, and reach of financial services and startups in particular.

Shaikh Khalifa addressed Bahrain Bourse’s role in enabling high growth businesses, regulations related to listing such companies on the stock exchange, and how that relates to strengthening the entrepreneurial landscape and contributing to economic growth. “Bahrain Bourse is also focusing on the investor-centric services and are currently planning to roll-out new services such as the launch of myShare Card, along with BHB’s collaboration with various retail banks to offer the Bahrain Trade Platform to their respective clients.

“Over the past couple of years, Bahrain Bourse has focused its efforts to adopt digital transformation strategies and practices in order to facilitate investors’ access to the market and thereby enhance the liquidity of the market and enable achievement of a market status upgrade.” “BHB’s recent initiatives, including the online trading platform (Bahrain Trade), and myShare card all go in line with our efforts to develop the investment environment insecurities by benefiting from the facilities provided by technology and applying best practices.