Abu Dhabi, UAE – The Abu Dhabi Securities Market Group has achieved a series of unprecedented qualitative achievements and milestones.
This will be during 2025, a transformative year that coincided with the celebration of the market’s 25th anniversary.
During the year, the Abu Dhabi Securities Market strengthened its position as the second largest market in the region.
He also consolidated his global presence by establishing the Abu Dhabi Securities Market Group.
Which brought together the Abu Dhabi Securities Market, Abu Dhabi Clearing Company, and Abu Dhabi Depository Company, within a unified structure.
This strategic shift represented a structural development in the market operating model, pushing it towards advanced market standards.
This is achieved by providing an integrated, high-performance trading, clearing, and settlement infrastructure that supports multiple asset classes.
Includes stocks, ETFs, debt instruments and derivatives, within a single platform.
This expanded access to the capital market, enhanced connectivity between markets, and facilitated deeper investment flows, confirming Abu Dhabi’s position as a leading global investment destination.
The Abu Dhabi Securities Market became the first market in the Arab world to list securities from the United States.
This occurred through the double listing of two exchange-traded funds listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with managed assets of approximately $10 billion.
Investment funds of a special nature
It was also the first market in the region to list private exchange-traded funds.
One focuses on quantum computing, and the other tracks the companies driving the growth of artificial intelligence globally.
In addition to including the first digital bond based on distributed ledger technology in the Middle East and North Africa region.
In parallel, the market expanded its international presence by receiving the first remote trading member for individual investors and the first general clearing member.
Which enhanced the depth, accessibility and global reach of the market.
Since January 2020, the Abu Dhabi Securities Market index has recorded sustained growth.
Thus, it outperformed the Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Index and the FTSE Russell Emerging Markets Index.
Reflecting the depth, liquidity and long-term attractiveness of the market to global investors.
With the total market value exceeding AED 3.1 trillion, the group continued to expand its capital formation channels.
This allows companies to raise the necessary financing to expand locally and internationally, and enables more than 1.2 million investors from more than 200 nationalities to participate in the emirate’s economic growth story.
The listed companies achieved combined net profits of approximately AED 140 billion during the first nine months of the year.
With an annual growth rate of nearly 19%, AED 74 billion in cash profits were distributed in 2025, reflecting the strength of market returns.
