The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) announces the availability of all sets of its standards online free of charge. In the past, the AAOIFI Shari’ah standards were available online for free in English and Arabic. However, recently the Executive Committee of AAOIFI has accepted the proposal to make all standards including […]
Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain, UAE and Saudi Arabia ranked as the top five developed countries globally in Islamic Finance; Indonesia jumped to second place in IFDI ranking backed by government knowledge initiatives; Islamic finance assets increased 14 percent to US$ 2.88 trillion in 2019, the highest recorded growth for the industry since the global financial crisis. Global Islamic Finance assets […]
BY BIZBAHRAIN Published Jan,2021 via bizbahrain – The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) announces that the monthly issue of the short-term Islamic leasing bonds, Sukuk Al-Ijara, has been oversubscribed by 477%. Subscriptions worth BD 124 million were received for the BD 26 million issue, which carries a maturity of 182 days. The expected return on the issue, […]
While addressing the parliament, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that it is high time to introduce Islamic financial services in Uzbekistan. “It is time to create a legal framework for the introduction of Islamic financial services in our country. Experts from the Islamic Development Bank and other international financial institutions will be involved in implementing a […]
BY NDUKA CHIEJINA (ASSISTANT EDITOR) ia The Nation – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will charge protection fees from investors in its Non-Interest Asset Backed Securities. One of the features of the CBN Non-Interest Asset Backed Securities (CNI-ABS), contained in a draft framework issued recently by the Apex bank on Non-Interest Asset Backed Securities, […]
DomaCom and Crescent Group have entered into an exclusive Heads of Agreement to deliver a pioneering Islamic home finance product The product will leverage DomaCom’s innovative fractional model that will allow Australia’s 700,000+ Muslim population to purchase a property using Shariah-compliant financing Crescent Group’s plan is to source institutional Islamic funding and structure its products […]
via The Financial Express – The Tk. 40 billion Sukuk was over-subscribed nearly four times to Tk. 151.53 billion in its first auction held on Monday at the central bank. For the first time, the government is mobilising funds from the financial institutions by issuing the Islamic bond. The Bangladesh Bank held an auction, where a […]
