DIFC will need a new message to take on the road

Usually at this time of year, members of the Dubai financial community would have pencilled into their autumn diary, towards the end of October, the words “DIFC week”.

The annual event was a “must” for investors and fiananciers, and brought the world to Dubai for a few days of thought-provoking – and business-generating – speeches, symposiums, dinners and networking events.

Not so in 2009. It was made known back in late spring that the financial think-fest would not be held in Dubai this year.

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