Islamic Finance

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