Future of Financial Markets is the annual summit conceptualized by the Financial Technologies Group, which is devoted to generate the best of ideas and thinking on how to bring markets closer to the people and play a useful role in their progress.

Given the rapid rise of Asia in the growth and development of financial markets, the theme of FOFM 2012 is ’The Ascent of Asia: Harnessing the Opportunities for India’. With a well-developed financial market infrastructure, India is poised to play an important role in the growing influence of Asian finance in global financial markets. The two-day event will deal with a number of issues on policy, regulation, and market development.

Markets are the major drivers that support economic growth. Markets bestow economies with allocative efficiency, transactional intensity, process enhancement, enterprise, and entrepreneurial development that could enable policy to play a proactive role in economic development. Global think tanks will address these issues during the summit.

Asian markets are on the ascent. The global financial crisis that unleashed numerous challenges for Asian finance also presented a number of opportunities to gain and consolidate. In the context of East Asia expanding rapidly in terms of the size and scope of the financial markets, how India should position itself is an important aspect of domestic financial strategy. This will be the main focus of the summit.

The Financial Technologies Group has set standards in conceptualizing and developing state-of-the-art financial market architecture, creating extensive exchange industry infrastructure across the developing world, and pioneering technology interventions in Indian capital markets. The Group believes in promoting and generating ideas on creating and developing markets that help nations pursue growth strategies on the premise of inclusion, empowerment, and stability.