Indonesia could be Asia’s next Islamic Finance Hub
Fauziah Rizki Yuniarti – Jakarta / Tue, January 12, 2021 A Bank Mandiri Syariah employee serves a customer on Sept. 3, 2020 at the Islamic lender’s Central Jakarta office. (JP/Wendra […]
Fauziah Rizki Yuniarti – Jakarta / Tue, January 12, 2021 A Bank Mandiri Syariah employee serves a customer on Sept. 3, 2020 at the Islamic lender’s Central Jakarta office. (JP/Wendra […]
Dr. Farooq Mahmood ECONOMICS 7th January 2021 Capitalism is sick and the disease is only getting worse. The coronavirus pandemic, unprecedented in its magnitude, is sending a fearsome warning to […]
Ahmad Danyal Arif 29th December 2020 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Message from Chief Editor: We are pleased to announce to readers the launch of a new ‘Economics’ section in The […]
Veteran Islamic banker Iqbal Khan says UK needs to create an enabling environment for Islamic finance to access growth sectors The UK is facing a unique double whammy calamity of […]
The Review of Religions conducted an interview with Ahmad Salam, a career investment banker with 25 years of experience in debt capital markets and investment banking and founding director of the Islamic Bank of Britain, on the subject of the Coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the global economy. He developed an […]
Indebted and beleaguered power utility Eskom Holdings is preparing to issue a R1 billion sukuk (Islamic) bond in its efforts to secure alternate funding sources to reduce mounting borrowing costs. […]
Devout citizens strive to take on tycoons with convenience stores ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writer January 28, 2020 16:54 JST JAKARTA — Taufan left his petrochemical job in […]
ABDALRAHMAN MIGDAD Published09.03.2019 A man praying in the Great Mosque in Bursa, western Turkey. Islamic finance is stuck between Islamic values and making a profit on the current system, […]
Pakistan, which has had 12 bailouts since late 1980s, is trying to avert a balance of payment crisis amid dwindling foreign currency reserves and a yawning current account deficit. Reuters@moneycontrolcom […]
Leslie Shaffer in Singapore | @leslieshaffer1 | October 8, 2018 Gold has long been viewed as a safe-haven play, but despite recent geopolitical turmoil and market fluctuations, the precious metal […]
Path Solutions announced as top Islamic Banking software vendor by IBS Intelligence August 16 2018 Path Solutions, a provider of Islamic banking software systems has topped IBS Islamic Sales League […]
The deal provides a non-binding framework to explore the creation of “a major regional banking institution. (REUTERS) Reuters July 23, 2018 KFH declined as much as 1.3 percent for a […]
Source: The Muslim Heritage By: John M. Hobson The worst thing ethically and politically is to let [Eurocentric] separatism simply go on, without understanding the opposite of separatism, which is […]
Islamic Banking The Islamic Financial system What is Islamic Banking? Islamic Banking Principles Rule of Permissibility Prohibition of Interest Other Key Prohitbitions Islamic Economics Order Wealth and Islam Profit-Loss-Sharing and Financing Modes Pricing Transactions linked to Interest-rate Benchmark Islam’s Approach to Ethical Investment Shari’ah Authenticity Shari’ah Supervisory Board [Religious […]
Lawrence Wintermeyer , Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Guest post written by Harris Irfan Harris Irfan is Managing Director at Cordoba Capital and author of “Heaven’s […]
Published in May-Jun 2012 By Adnan Syed Superficiality is rampant in advertising, and is the most obvious in the advertising for Islamic financial services. Let’s face it; the world of advertising is a make-believe world. It is a world built on outward appearances and people ridicule it for its […]
Personal Finance | 20 May 2017 Martin Hesse The way Muslims do business is based on free-market economics, but it provides a far more equitable and sustainable economic model than the dog-eat-dog world of Western capitalism. This was a strong underlying message to come out of a recent conference on Islamic banking […]
By Y-Sing Liau | Updated Jan 6, 2017 The Koran forbids charging interest or paying it. Yet even strictly observant Muslims can participate in modern-day commerce. They use alternative arrangements designed to comply with sharia, or Islamic law. These financial instruments, in which the buyer and the seller typically share […]
November 17, 2016 From GoldCore: A new Sharia Gold Standard set to debut in December could be the next big catalyst to push the yellow metal to new highs. Islamic Gold – Important New Dynamic In Gold Market Next month, 1.6 billion people will likely have a new ‘gold investment standard’ Islamic […]
Professor Rodney Wilson, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham Islamic banks often describe themselves as being providers of ethical financial services, but they do not spell out explicitly what is meant by this or its significance. The word ethical is used as a label, and equated […]