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The Middle East edition of Money20/20, the fintech industry's flagship conference series, held in Riyadh. It brings the region's banks, regulators and payment companies together with the global fintech circuit.
Saudi Arabia has been spending heavily on financial infrastructure as part of its diversification programme, and the Gulf is now a genuine third pole in fintech alongside the United States and Asia. Money20/20 is the clearest single read on where that money is going.
Step 1 · The ticket
Priced in dollars. Paid in dollars. Nothing lost in between.
Passes get more expensive the longer you wait, and the good side events fill up from the main ticket list. Book the pass first. Then the travel.
Step 2 · The flight
Search around the conference dates.
Fares climb sharply in the four weeks before a major conference. Roughly seven hours from Singapore.
Step 3 · The room
A conference week empties a city of rooms. Book early.
Know before you tap
Converts once, at a flat 1.8% Forex Charge.
The machine will offer to charge you in dollars instead. It sounds helpful. It is not. Choose the local currency - baht, yen, won, whatever is on the screen - and your money converts once, at a flat 1.8% Forex Charge.
Taking the dollar option is called dynamic currency conversion. The shop sets that exchange rate, not Visa, and it usually costs you 3% to 7%. You will never see it listed as a fee, because it is hidden inside the rate. That is the point of it. Say no, every time.
Nothing to convert, nothing to pay. 0%.
Booking sites, conference tickets and airlines often quote in dollars already. That is not a conversion trick. That is just the price. Your money is already in dollars, so there is nothing to convert and nothing to pay. 0%.
Hotel in dollars. Flight in dollars. Ticket in dollars. Three charges, no conversion on any of them.
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