Islamic Finance Offers Alternative To Weaponised US Dollar And SWIFT
Islamic Finance Instruments Can Replace US Dollar in Trade US weaponization of the US Dollar and the international paym... Read more
Sukuk And Islamic Finance Are Transforming Africa
Sukuk are financing infrastructure projects across Africa and contributing to socially useful ventures across the conti... Read more
Gold Banking – A Game Changer For Islamic Finance
Converting Billions of Dollars of Idle “Under the Mattress” Gold Assets into Mainstream Economies Traditionally gol... Read more
Malaysian And Saudi Sukuk Help Push Issuances Past $1 Trillion
US$ 1 Trillion of Sukuk since 1996 Since the issuance of the first modern sukuk in 1996 cumulative issuance of sukuk ha... Read more
Astana Forum Discusses Linking International Islamic Finance
Astana Finance Days Forum Astana International Financial Centre aspires to become a new global financial hub, and Islam... Read more
London Islamic Finance Centre Shines At Sukuk Summit
London Sukuk Summit at London Stock Exchange with Islamic Development Bank 5 March 2018 – Leading luminaries from Isl... Read more
Moodys: UKs First Asset-backed Sukuk Is Credit Positive For Al Rayan Bank And Islamic Financial Institutions
Securitization of Sharia-compliant home purchase plans On 22 February, UK-based Al Rayan Bank PLC (ARB, Aa3 negative... Read more
The Islamic Finance Week – Jakarta To Manchester
Islamic Finance Week in Review – 24 Feb 2018 Corporate Sukuk Market The sovereign and corporate sukuk market surged t... Read more
Islamic Development Bank Aims For $2.5bn Mega Sukuk
IDB Aiming for its Largest Sukuk Issuance Bandar Hajjar, president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has said the S... Read more
Sukuk Issuance In Africa: A Prospect For Further Growth
Article originally published in IIFM Sukuk Report, 6th Edition. Written by Islamic Corporation for Private Sector Devel... Read more
The “Black Magic” Playboy Who Took Dubai Islamic Bank To Brink Of Collapse
Foutanga Babani Sissoko told DIB branch manager he had black magic powers and ended up taking $242m from the bank and p... Read more
EU Finance Ministers Blacklist UAE And Bahrain
Blacklist Could Curtail Free Flow of Islamic Financial Funds to UAE and Bahrain The global Islamic finance centre crede... Read more
Commodity Murabaha Used To Finance UK Office Deal
The Shariah-compliant refinancing of high value office accommodation in Aberdeen has been completed using a commodity M... Read more
Chinas One Belt Initiative To Boost Islamic Cross Border Investment
Gross global cross-border capital flows have shrunk by 65 percent from US$12.4 trillion in 2007 to $4.3 trillion in 201... Read more
Saudi Arabia Crackdown On Corruption Impacts Defaulted Sukuk
Sukuk Default – Saad Group Head Arrested in Saudi Arabia Maan Al Sanea was arrested by Saudi authorities in October o... Read more