Islamic Finance

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• Convergence of Islamic and Conventional Finance Imminent

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 672
  A groundbreaking book that explains the impact of globalization on Islamic Finance and its portents for the future.
  2 days ago

• Future of Islamic Finance

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 466
  Teh Financial Times has posted a special report on the Future of Islamic Banking:http://www.ft.com/islamicfinancePdf of the December 8, 2009 print supplement available at:http://media.ft.com/cms/ac6257de-e2de-11de-b028-00144feab49a.pdf
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• Will Dubai Default Sink International Islamic Bonds Market?

  
  South Asia Investor Review — Authority: 415
  Dubais debt woes are bringing the worlds attention to the Islamic finance , particularly the Islamic bonds known as sukuk. Sukuk are Sharia-compliant bonds that do not pay interest. Instead, the sukuk sellers pay the debt holders a share of the rent or capital gains from non-cash physical assets or share of the ...
  3 days ago

• Dubais Debt Crisis Hurts Islamic Finance

  
  Haq's Musings — Authority: 422
  Dubais debt woes are bringing the worlds attention to the Islamic finance , particularly the Islamic bonds known as sukuk. Sukuk are Sharia-compliant bonds that do not pay interest. Instead, the sukuk sellers pay the debt holders a share of the rent or capital gains from non-cash physical assets or share of the ...
  3 days ago

• Dubai: Big Risk, Little Reward

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  From Floyd Norris: Why lend money at low rates to a borrower who has no real legal duty to repay? That is one of the big questions of the Dubai mess.
  1 week ago

• Dubai too small to fail

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  My friends from the Daily Reckoning newsletter and Dr. Marc Faber have concluded that the debt problems of Dubai are too small to bring down the global financial system (click here).The Daily Reckoning says this is more of a Bear Stearns than a Lehman moment. For those with short memories, Lehman tipped off the global ...
  1 week ago

• Dubai Debts Test Islamic Finance

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 116
  CAIRO - As the world is still recovering from an economic meltdown, an unfolding debt crisis in the flashy lifestyle-Gulf state of Dubai is sending shockwaves around the world, putting the booming Islamic finance to a test. “A Default by Dubai will put the world of Islamic finance to the test at a time when hard ...
  1 week ago

• Monday crash for Gulf stock markets inevitable

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  Will the Gulf stock markets decide to close and take an extra day for their Eid holiday on Monday? Certainly in the UAE with a closure for National Day on Wednesday it must be tempting to declare a longer holiday and face the music later.But the global financial market reaction to Dubai’s decision to suspend [...]
  1 week ago

• Is Dubai right to face its Day of Reckoning?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  Next week financial markets will be looking for some pretty speedy answers from Dubai after the sudden decision to suspend payments on the debt of Dubai World. If the intension is to ring-fence a particular part of state assets then creditors will need to know what they are facing. Just what does Dubai World have [...]
  1 week ago

• Dubai debt crisis harbinger for a global bond crisis?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  To say the debt moratorium declared by Dubai World last week rattled global markets is an understatement. The earth really moved but this is probably nothing compared to the later bond market earthquake that is going to follow these tremors.Markets will keenly await further news of Dubai’s ‘carefully planned ...
  1 week ago

• Dubai Debt Crisis: Implications for Gulf Economies & Global Financial Markets

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 125
  Suggestions of a technical default on November 26 by UAE-based Dubai World have sent shockwaves through the financial world. Not only are creditworthiness concerns reaching boiling point, but global equity markets, too, seem to initially have gone into panic mode. Business Monitors Liz Martins and Terry Alexander ...
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• Western investors watch nervously as worth of Islamic bonds is tested to limit

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 581
  A DEFAULT by Dubai will put the world of Islamic finance to the test at a time when hard questions are being asked by bankers and lawyers about the protection afforded by financial instruments that are Shariah compliant. The bond that lies at the heart of the threat of default and financial ignominy for Dubai ...
  1 week ago

• Strong liquidity management is vital for the development of Islamic finance

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 116
  KUALA LUMPUR: Enhancing the ability of Islamic financial institutions to manage liquidity is important for the development of a stronger and more resilient Islamic financial industry, according to Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz.“The recent financial turmoil in advanced economies has clearly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Islamic banking thrive in Lebanon

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 116
  24 November 2009BEIRUT -- Islamic banks are thriving in Lebanon after proving efficiency in facing the ramifications of the global financial crisis.Banks that are based on Islamic teachings of Shareia, though newly established, they covered a wide-range of customers and were licensed by the Central Bank of Lebanon ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Promising Market for Islamic Finance in Russia

  
  Fudzail — Authority: 427
  The number of Muslims is Russia is around 47 million. That is bigger than in Malaysia or Saudi Arabia. The market for halal products as well as Islamic finance and takaful should be big enough for us to grab the abundant opportunities . Below article written by Lahem al Nasser There are around 47 million ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russia: A Promising Market for Islamic Finance

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 116
  Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- There are around 47 million Muslims in Russia, which means that Muslims make up around one third of Russias overall population. This figure is expected to rise to 50 percent by 2050 due to the high birth rate among the Muslim community, the decrease in the non-Muslim Russian population which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are investors fishing for Gulf bonds near the market top?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  Foreign and local investors are snapping up bonds issued by Gulf companies and governments. Yesterday Qatar announced a $7 billion bond sale, the biggest and most tightly priced to date.But are investors buying at the top of the bond market? Yields are exceptionally low. Perhaps they should really be looking at Gulf ...
  2 weeks ago

• Qatar Exchange online for foreigners, stocks cheap as GDP surges

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  Several local brokers on the Qatar Exchange in Doha are offering online brokerage accounts that are open to foreigners whether they live in Qatar or not. HSBC can also buy stocks for foreign clients and act as local custodian. There are limits on foreign holdings in Qatari companies of up to 25 per cent but [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Qatar Financial Centre catching up fast with the DIFC

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 434
  The four-year old Qatar Financial Centre is catching up fast with the Dubai International Financial Centre which celebrated its fifth anniversary last week. The Doha-based QFC has more than 900 people working under its umbrella compared with the 1,400 now employed by firms registered at the DIFC.But Dubai does rather ...
  3 weeks ago

• Islamic Finance – A False Dawn

  
  My Ummah .co.za — Authority: 119
  This article is written by brother Adnan Khan Open up the pages of any newspaper or Financial Magazine and you are guaranteed to find advertisements from banks announcing their latest Islamic finance products. Once perceived as a niche market, Islamic finance today is big business with both local and international ...
  3 weeks ago

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