Are Sukuk still a viable option for Kuwaiti banks seeking to enhance liquidity and capital management, while diversifying funding sources? What can technology, particularly tools such as Blockchain, offer capital market and asset management innovation in Kuwait? What more needs to be done to drive the issue of Shariah compliant tradeable securities, including Sukuk, in the country? What regulatory changes would be helpful and constructive towards this objective? How can Islamic finance mobilize in Kuwait to address the imminent challenges of the real economy and provide not just liquidity support, but solvency support to the corporate sector? How can sustainable and responsible investment make progress in Kuwait and can the UN Sustainable Development Goals be applied to the State’s Islamic finance activities? Lastly, we examine the country’s infrastructure requirements in the coming years and ask what can be funded through Islamic facilities, how can risk be effectively managed and do public/private partnerships offer a viable opportunity?

What are the major challenges and opportunities facing Kuwaiti banks in their digitization programs and strategies for the adoption of financial technology? How is digitization within local banks driving effective segmentation and the development of ever more efficient product delivery channels? What opportunities do Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology offer Islamic financial institutions and consumers in Kuwait? Where do crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending potentially fit in the Kuwaiti financial system and what can be done to develop and nurture these important components? Where and how can FinTech play a meaningful role in key Islamic social financial activities such as Takaful, Zakat and Waqf?