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• Who has the best mortgage deals?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 435
  I am a first time buyer and ive found a lovely flat for myself. However, im still looking for a mortgage but i just dont know who to go to. The thing is the mortgage advisor is saying that i cant get a mortgage on my own, i will have to get it with someone [...]
  3 days ago

• Best time to read textbook is when there is no exams

  
  Legal Cat-asthrophe — Authority: 125
  I was a post-graduate student a few months ago. Where I had to cram reading books and memorising Islamic finance terms for the examinations that I have to pass to get my scroll. I am not really out of it yet. Meaning, I still have to deliver something to my university in the form of an exemption paper. I have managed ...
  6 days ago

• Islamic finance grows four times faster than traditional banking

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  Islamic banking assets grew by 29 per cent to $822 billion this year, more than four times faster than conventional banking assets according to The Banker’s Top 500 Islamic Financial Institutions Survey, published in association with HSBC Amanah.Now in its third year, the report is the only annual benchmark of its ...
  1 week ago

• Islamic finance and banking: Some basic principles and concepts

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  Islamic finance is a form of ethical investment and ethical lending. Under this system loans and investments are made Islamic finance is a form of ethical investment and ethical lending. Under this system loans and investments are made without interest. Ethical restrictions include prohibition on alcohol and gambling ...
  1 week ago

• Islamic Finance - solutions where Sharia compliant products don’t exist

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 126
  There was an interesting talk given by CFA Ireland on the topic of Islamic Finance and Sharia compliant financial products. The long and short of it is that there are no retail Islamic finance products widely available in Ireland at present, there are two or three Sukuks domiciled here. So what can a Muslim ...
  1 week ago

• Significant Success For Malaysia In Islamic Finance, Says Prime Minister

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia has achieved significant success in Islamic finance which at end June this year accounted for close to 19 per cent of the countrys banking assets.As at end-August, the Islamic capital market too had reached RM803 billion, ...
  1 week ago

• Islamic Finance Players Urged To Lead In Attracting Fund Managers

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- Islamic finance players must take the lead in further strengthening the architecture of the sector to attract global Islamic fund management companies to establish their operations in the country, said Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop.He said ...
  1 week ago

• Can more housing finance really save Dubai real estate?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  Dubai house prices have rebounded by seven per cent in the third quarter, according to Colliers International, with a 64 per cent rise in transactions to an unspecified volume. But this is widely expected to prove a dead-cat bounce as the market is flooded with new property in a likely double-dip global recession. The ...
  1 week ago

• Daman Investments sets 2012 IPO target

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  In 1998 I attended the launch press conference for Daman Investments and thought then that this group, and particularly its managing director Shehab Gargash, possessed the magic touch. A little over a decade later and Daman has $1.5 billion under its management. Today the group announced its three-year strategy to ...
  1 week ago

• Shariah governance a challenge to Islamic banking

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  Oct 11, 2009 (Arab News)-- A number of statements, resolutions and judgments relating to Islamic banking that have been issued and passed during the last two years have rekindled the debate over the very nature of the Shariah governance process in the global Islamic finance industry. These included Resolution 179 ...
  1 week ago

• Ireland outlines tax laws for Shariah-compliant products

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  Ireland, like other European countries, is warming to Islamic finance and Dublin has emerged as an Islamic investment fund rival to the Channel Islands and Luxembourg. Indeed several Shariah-compliant funds are registered there, including the Oasis Crescent Global Equity Fund which is based in Dublin and so is the ...
  2 weeks ago

• First women-only bank opens in Iraq holy…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 524
  First women-only bank opens in Iraq holy city. In one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest cities, a bank has opened a branch only for women, hoping to tap a potentially large market and meet pent-up demand from Muslim women for financial services that meet their needs. The manager of the Najaf branch of the private ...
  2 weeks ago

• 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  This Thursday will be the 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, and investors will be hoping that this day of destiny will pass without incident this year.To be fair last week the market did have its first down week in months. And if you look at the chart below then the Dow’s recovery [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Budget 2010: Malaysia To Drive Towards High-Income Economy

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 127
  KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has laid down a firm foundation to drive the nation towards embracing a high-income economy in the 2010 budget through bold proposals to raise private equity, invigorating the stock market, further developing Islamic finance while emphasising ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dubai credit improves as the dust settles on the bust

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  News that Dubai sovereign wealth fund Dubai International Capital has secured a loan of $550 million over two years from a syndicate of lenders is a sign that the credit freeze is over for the indebted emirate. But Dubai is going to need fresh credit. Analysts speaking to The National cited debts of $6.8 billion [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Upcoming Islamic Finance and Business Events in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  
  Ahmad Sanusi Husain - CEO, GlobalPro Consulting - KL, Malaysia (Consultant-Speaker-Trainer-Advisor) — Authority: 99
  15-16 December 2009: Seminar on Islamic Wealth Management and Financial Planning 19-20 January 2010: Seminar on Product Development & Marketing for Islamic Financial Services 9-10 February 2010: Workshop on Islamic Structured Products: Sukuk and others 23-24 February 2010: Workshop on Risk Management for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arabian Money: Gulf sovereign wealth funds dump bank stocks

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  Qatar is following Abu Dhabi in downsizing its stake in the British bank Barclays, only acquired less than a year ago to help the bank survive the global financial crisis without state aid. It seems the sovereign wealth funds of the Gulf are going cool on banks.You can hardly blame Qatar for choosing to cash [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Arabian Black Gold: $90bn for oil and gas in three years

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  The Gulf Cooperation Countries are planning to spend more than $90 billion on oil and gas infrastructure projects over the next three years, whatever happens to the global economy.Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Adnoc has $50 billion worth of projects to be awarded by the end of 2010, while Technip senior VP Arturu Grimaldi ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arabian Gold: will the Gulf go for revaluation and a gold standard?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  Talk about revaluation of the Gulf currencies is back on the agenda as rising inflation exerts pressure on the Gulf dollar pegs, while at the same time rumors of discussions about linking a new single currency to a gold standard have been so emphatically denied that skeptics wonder if there is some truth in it. [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Unfreezing of UAE public sector credit just one step forward

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 479
  In the aftermath of the sudden-stop syndrome that hit the UAE economy last autumn even credit for blue-chip public sector entities froze up. That is now ending.Yesterday the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority announced that it had closed a $2.2 billion funding for the 1,507MW, 100 million gallon per day, ...
  3 weeks ago

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