Accountant
The Accountant is responsible for processing financial transactions, preparing and recording accounting entries, maintaining accurate general ledger accounts, and supporting monthly and annual financial reporting. The role ensures the integrity of financial data, compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements, and timely execution of accounting operations to support AMF’s financial management objectives.
Key Accountabilities:
The Specialist, Legal provides legal advice and guidance to support AMF’s operations, contracts, regulatory compliance, and institutional governance. The role assists in mitigating legal risks, ensuring regulatory adherence, and aligning the Fund’s legal activities with established policies and best practices. It also contributes to maintaining and strengthening AMF’s legal framework across investments, partnerships, and corporate operations.
Roles and responsibilities
The Senior Economist is responsible for drafting institutional reports, developing economic indicators and forecasting models, conducting policy-related research studies, and contributing to training activities, workshops, and technical assistance to member countries. The role also includes providing high-level economic analysis and policy advice in the context of economic surveillance and the follow-up of economic reform programs.
The Senior Officer, Internal Audit is responsible for planning and executing risk-based audits, evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls, and providing recommendations that enhance the governance, risk management, and compliance of the AMF and its affiliates. The role includes mentoring internal auditors and ensuring all audit activities are conducted in alignment with the IIA Standards.
Roles and Responsibilities
The Economist is responsible for providing high-level economic analysis and policy advice in the context of economic surveillance and the follow up of economic reform programs, conducting in-depth assessment of the eligibility of member countries in the context of evaluating loans’ requests. His/her role also includes conducting policy-related research studies and contributing to AMF training activity, and technical assistance to member countries.
The Arab Monetary Fund has issued the sixty-third edition of the “Monthly Bulletin of Arab Capital Markets,” which showed that the majority of Arab financial markets recorded positive performance during January 2026, in line with the upward trend observed in several advanced and emerging financial markets. The Arab Monetary Fund Composite Index for Arab financial markets rose by 1.44 percent by the end of the month.
Nine Arab stock exchanges recorded improved performance during the period, supported by gains in the banking, energy, insurance, financial services, and consumer retail sectors, contributing to an increase in market capitalization. The Egyptian Exchange led the rising markets with an increase of 14.24 percent, followed by the Saudi and Muscat exchanges at 8.50 percent and 7.90 percent, respectively. The markets of Tunisia, Dubai, and Qatar also recorded gains of 6.72 percent, 6.42 percent, and 5.09 percent, respectively, while the Abu Dhabi and Palestine exchanges rose by 2.89 percent and 1.68 percent, respectively.
In contrast, five Arab stock exchanges recorded declines in their indices due to weaker performance in certain sectors, including travel and leisure, consumer services, and media. The Casablanca Stock Exchange declined by less than one percent, while the markets of Bahrain, Amman, Iraq, and Kuwait recorded declines ranging between 1.09 percent and 3.84 percent.
15th Meeting of the Arab Regional FinTech Working Group (WG)
and the associated Workshop
on “Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services’ Supervision: Regulation, Governance, and Use Cases”
Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates
7–9 April 2026
The Arab monetary fund (AMF) has issued issue no. (123) of its quarterly bulletin on the performance of Arab stock markets, which showed mixed performance by the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, contrary to the positive trend recorded by the majority of advanced and emerging financial markets.
The AMF composite index declined by 1.04 percent compared to the end of the third quarter of 2025, reflecting weaker performance in some markets with higher relative weights. Nevertheless, the index recorded annual growth of 5.61 percent.
Published annually, the report represents a model of Arab institutional cooperation, providing a comprehensive analysis of economic developments in Arab countries and presenting an integrated overview of the state of the Arab economy considering regional and global developments.
At the level of Arab stock exchanges, indices rose in ten markets, led by the Amman stock exchange with a gain of 19.07 percent, followed by Egypt and muscat with increases of 14.07 percent and 13.22 percent, respectively. Several other exchanges also posted varying gains. In contrast, six Arab exchanges recorded declines, most notably Saudi Arabia and Damascus.
The total market capitalization of Arab financial markets decreased by approximately USD 107 billion, or 2.48 percent, to reach USD 4,208.08 billion by the end of the fourth quarter, compared to USD 4,315.08 billion at the end of the previous quarter. Meanwhile, the value of trading increased to USD 261.42 billion, marking a rise of USD 9.19 billion.
The Arab Monetary Fund, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance of the United Arab Emirates and the International Monetary Fund, organized the 10th Arab Public Finance Forum, which was held in Dubai on the eve of the World Governments Summit 2026.
This year’s forum was held under the theme:
“A Decade of Fiscal Dialogue: Building Macroeconomic Resilience through Strengthening Fiscal Policies and Institutions.”
The forum witnessed broad participation from Arab Ministers of Finance and Governors of Central Banks, alongside senior officials and experts from regional and international financial institutions.
In his address during the forum, H.E. Dr. Fahad M. Alturki, Director General Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund, stressed the importance of the forum as a platform to assess the outcomes of a full decade of dialogue on fiscal policies, and as an opportunity to strengthen cooperation among Arab countries in light of global financial and economic developments.
H.E. stated: