Last Saturday 10 March, Farrukh Raza, Managing Director of IFAAS has delivered a successful workshop at the Emerging Markets Forum in London School of Economics. The theme of the workshop was ‘Islamic Finance – demystifying and emerging industry’. The audience was current students from the LSE and other high-profile business schools and universities across the country. The […]
Islamic Development Bank aims to sell $1bln green sukuk in 2018 Largest development organisation in the Muslim world is aiming to issue a benchmark-sized green sukuk this year to finance renewable energy projects LONDON: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the largest development organisation in the Muslim world, is aiming to issue a benchmark-sized green sukuk this year […]
Kazakhstan getting closer to implementing Islamic finance Kazakhstan will host a meeting on the implementation of Islamic finance on March 5, the regional office of the ICD (Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector) in Almaty told Trend. The meeting is expected to touch such issues as “Islamic finance as an alternative tool […]
This Monday, many of the world’s leading investors and experts will meet in the heart of the City of London. They are gathering to discuss one of the oldest but – conversely – also one of the most under-developed elements of the global financial market: Islamic finance. Delegates to the summit will focus in particular […]
by : Chloe Cornish and Robert Smith An Islamic bank has raised the first sharia-compliant bond backed by UK mortgages, highlighting the growing importance of Islamic finance for both capital markets fundraising and high-street lending in Britain. The UK has sought to make itself a hub for Islamic finance in the western world, with the […]
Bandar Hajjar, president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has said the Saudi Arabia headquartered institution is planning soon to issue its largest sized Sukuk for $2.5 billion. The 57 member AAA rated development bank is a regular issuer of Sukuk having last issued in September 2017 with a $1.25 billion issuance which was priced at […]
The Ugandan government has approved regulations regarding the provision of Islamic finance, while the country’s central bank is expected to publish the rules in the coming months to improve financial inclusion. Once published, the central bank will be looking for application from financial institutions wanting to offer Shari’ah-compliant financial services. Uganda is the latest among […]
Now that two countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Saudi Arabia and the UAE, introduced a value added tax (VAT) regime for the first time ever, and the others are bound to follow, questions arise how such a consumer tax relates to Islamic finance products. Rating agency Fitch said in a statement ahead of […]
Italy is getting ready for the general elections that are scheduled for next March. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s Democratic Party is trailing both a center-right coalition led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio. It is hard to predict the outcome of the elections, but […]
The Ugandan government has approved regulations regarding the provision of Islamic finance, while the country’s central bank is expected to publish the rules in the coming months to improve financial inclusion. Once published, the central bank will be looking for application from financial institutions wanting to offer Shari’ah-compliant financial services. Uganda is the latest among […]
Santhosh V. Perumal Qatar needs to reform interbank liquidity management to study leakages from Islamic banks through interbank finance as part of a strategic roadmap for Shariah finance, according to a Qatar Financial Center (QFC) study. Moreover, there is also a need to develop a regulatory framework and promote green bonds and sukuk to embolden […]
A number of financing agreements, totalling over US$250mn, have been raised in support of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in recent weeks. The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, has provided a US$100mn and a €50mn facility, both of which will be used to support trade transactions […]
