Azimuth Fireside: Strategy and Capacity - What It Actually Takes to Build a National Islamic Finance System

A national Islamic finance strategy is easy to write. It is hard to execute. The gap between the two is almost always the same: the supervisors, institutions, and workforce needed to implement it do not yet exist when the policy is signed. Turkey published its first Participation Finance Strategy in 2022. Egypt has been building Islamic finance infrastructure for decades. Both have learned that sequencing matters as much as ambition — and that what gets built in the first three years determines whether a market scales or stalls.  
This session puts the policy architect and the capacity builder in conversation: what does a second-generation strategy look like, and what does the first generation teach you about what to build before you write it? For Uzbekistan, which has the law and the mandate, the question is not whether — it is in what order.  Audience will leave with a clear framework for sequencing strategy and capacity, and a practical read on what to prioritise now from 2 countries that have already made the mistakes.