Dubai Financial Market (DFM) added 54k new investors in 2025 — 84% of whom were foreign investors — as international trades surpassed local trades for the first time, CEO Hamed Ali told local news outlet Al Emarat Al Youm. Foreign investors, who made up 53% of total activity, now hold 20% of DFM’s total market cap.

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Institutions drove 71% of traded value, helping daily trading volumes climb 75% y-o-y and boosting overall liquidity by 77%.

REMEMBER- The DFM General Index is up 18.6% YTD, making it the Gulf’s best-performing benchmark for the third straight year. Over the past three years, DFM attracted 368k new investors, pushing its market cap above the AED 1 tn mark, Ali said.

On the listings side, Nasdaq Dubai and DFM together hold AED 532 bn in fixed-income listings, including AED 98.8 bn tied to ESG-linked instruments, he said, adding that Nasdaq Dubai has maintained its position as the world’s largest sukuk hub.

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