KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 (Bernama) -- Uzbekistan will host the fifth Tashkent International Investment Forum (TIIF), bringing together global investors, government representatives, international financial institutions and major business leaders, from June 16 to 19.
Held under the theme “Investment Resilience: New Frontiers, New Partnerships”, the leading investment platform in Central Asia will focus on capital protection, investment resilience and new partnership opportunities amid global uncertainty.
In a statement, Embassy of Uzbekistan in Malaysia said the fifth edition followed last year’s success which drew 8,000 participants, including 3,000 international delegates from 97 countries, with the aggregate value of signed investment contracts and trade agreements reaching US$30.5 billion.
It said the centrepiece of this year’s forum is the Tashkent International Financial Centre (TIFC), established in March 2026, which operates under a special legal framework aimed at enhancing regulatory clarity and attracting global investors.
“TIFC is part of a global trend towards specialised financial hubs that offer international market participants a familiar legal environment and regulatory predictability.
“Its defining feature is integration within the country’s legal framework: the centre operates under a special legal regime rather than creating a separate jurisdiction, reducing regulatory fragmentation and simplifying engagement with the domestic economy,” the statement read.
It said the TIIF 2026 programme is structured around four thematic pillars, including investment resilience and capital protection mechanisms, financial infrastructure and capital market development, trade connectivity and logistics corridors, and energy transition and climate finance.
“For Uzbekistan, TIIF has long ceased to be a showcase. It is a working instrument of investment policy, whose effectiveness is measured not by the number of signing ceremonies but by the volume of capital that actually enters the economy between forums,” it said.
The embassy said this year’s edition takes place at a moment when the country is simultaneously launching an international financial centre, adopting an alternative investment funds law, and receiving a sovereign rating upgrade.
The event also comes amid strong macroeconomic performance, with Uzbekistan’s gross domestic product (GDP) growing 7.7 per cent in 2025 to exceed US$147 billion, one of the highest rates in Europe and Central Asia since 2021, according to the National Statistics Committee.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 46.9 per cent, accounting for 40.5 per cent of total capital investment, while exports increased 24 per cent to US$33.8 billion, the embassy said citing official data.
-- BERNAMA
