The GCC Financial Markets Committee, chaired by Saudi Exchange and including ADX, DFM, Boursa Kuwait, Bahrain Bourse, Muscat Stock Exchange and Qatar Stock Exchange, has issued the GCC Exchanges Unified Investor Relations (IR) Guideline 2025. The guide aims to standardise investor relations across the region.
The voluntary guideline offers a framework for transparent disclosure, ESG integration, stakeholder engagement and strategic communication, designed to align IR functions with international standards and improve appeal to global investors.
Mohammad Saud Al-Osaimi, CEO of Boursa Kuwait, said the guideline “marks a step toward unifying investor relations standards” across GCC markets to enhance transparency and investor confidence.
The introduction of a streamlined IR framework strengthens the region’s capital market infrastructure by giving issuers practical tools for disclosure planning, investor targeting and effective corporate communication, factors that could support the GCC’s ambition to become a global capital markets hub.
