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• In defense of sukuks

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  By Blake GoudThe sukuk market has developed rapidly over the past decade from nearly nothing. Now that a few sukuk have defaulted (or nearly in the case of Nakheel), many are asking whether sukuk are worthwhile for corporate or sovereign issuers. Sukuk are useful because there continues to be a demand from investors ...
  2 days ago

• How badly has the debt crisis damaged Dubai’s reputation?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  Looking back over the past couple of months you have to wonder how much Dubai has damaged its reputation as a growing global financial centre. The headlines suggesting that the city is drowning in debt are not positive, and the reality that has emerged is not that great either. Before the debt crisis the reputation ...
  4 days ago

• Are Islamic bonds or sukuks now dead and buried?

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  The enormous bad publicity surrounding Nakheel’s $3.5 billion sukuk or Islamic bond repayment this month has exposed these debt instruments as nothing more than unsecured commercial bonds, with no recourse to underlying assets in the event of a default.There is, of course, an irony in that Nakheel actually repaid ...
  4 days ago

• Face to faith: Once confined to religious debates, the word usury is making a welcome return to politics, says Nesrine Malik

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Once confined to religious debates, the word usury is making a welcome return to politics Its strange to hear the word "usury" again. As a Muslim, I had always associated the term with the Islamic ban on paying or receiving interest. But in the wake of this latest recession London Citizens , an alliance of religious ...
  1 week ago

• The Origins of Islamic Economics

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  by Daniel Atzori Islamic finance and Islamic banking, which are among the fastest growing financial industries in the world, are best understood in their political and cultural contexts, and by what formed their theoretical origins. To begin with, Islamic banks are based on a corpus of ...
  1 week ago

• Ten top tips for investors in 2010

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  1. Stay out of all equities. This is a monstrous valuation bubble driven up by zero interest rates. Rates have to go up, and stock markets down. Markets will correct when something reminds them that this is the future outlook.2. The dollar rally has further to go, and the dollar will go higher as equities [...]
  1 week ago

• Dubai turns to the DIFC courts for international law

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  For the restructuring of an estimated $60 billion in debts at Dubai World the Dubai Government has chosen to empower its court system at the Dubai International Financial Centre to judge all cases pertaining to this matter. Cases will be heard in English and not Arabic, and the law to be applied will be a [...]
  1 week ago

• Up to $76bn of project finance coming up in the UAE says GE

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  The United Arab Emirates will be looking for an estimated $53 to $76 billion in project finance over the next five years, GE Energy Financial Services spokesman Suresh Vasan told an economics workshop held at the Dubai International Financial Centre this morning.This tops the regional league table for financing ...
  1 week ago

• Abu Dhabi puts up $10bn to meet Dubai debt call

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  Dubai World bonds maturing today have been bailed out by $10 billion in new funds from Abu Dhabi, averting an impending default. Markets immediately rallied on the news which was completely unexpected. An emailed statement early this morning said Dubai will use the money to pay the $4.1 billion Nakheel bond maturing ...
  1 week ago

• D-day for Nakheel Dubai – December 28 is the final cut off point

  
  7starsdubai's Weblog — Authority: 127
  original published by ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) – Heavy rain pounded Dubai on Sunday adding to the gloom of the emirate’s debt woes a day before the deadline of the $3.52 billion bond by state-owned developer Nakheel, with no word on how it will be handled.Dubai’s stock market did soar for a second consecutive ...
  1 week ago

• Sharia law sneaked into Labour Budget

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  THE Treasury plans to rewrite Britain’s tax rules to usher in a new wave of Sharia law for the country’s financial system. The one-line revelation is buried in the 212-page pre-Budget report. It is among a string of startling details which barely merit a mention in Alistair Darling’s controversial ...
  1 week ago

• Dubai World Debt Crisis: Keynes Was Right

  
  An Investment Banker's Take On Life — Authority: 91
  “If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours”, so said John Maynard Keynes. That’s the exact same predicament the creditors of Dubai World and its property unit, Nakheel, find themselves in right now. Only that here we are not talking of just a million, but a cool $26 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goldman Sachs conference call on the Dubai debt crisis

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 137
  This is a recording of the recent conference call on the Dubai debt crisis organized by Goldman Sachs (click here).Goldman Sachs estimates Dubai debts total around $120 billion. The events of the past few weeks are the start of a wide ranging restructuring of Dubai but there will be no global contagion, predicts the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Islamic Finance Still Profitable - aside from the Dubai debt debacle, Islamic finance continues to thrive

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 109
  Prior to the current financial crisis in Dubai, sukuk issuance had started to revive following two difficult years since the August 2007 peak. New issuance for the year to November 2009 exceeded $17.5 billion with 69 separate offerings. Confidence was demonstrated by the announcement on November 19 by General Electric ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia ripe for Islamic finance

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 109
  SYDNEY, Dec 10 — Australia’s wealth of natural resources and financial landscape provide a natural platform for Islamic finance, with potential to attract a new type of global investors, an official with Malaysia’s stock exchange said.Trailing Muslim neighbours such as Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia is ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 weeks ago

• Future of Islamic Finance

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 124
  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
  2 weeks ago

• Will Dubai Default Sink International Islamic Bonds Market?

  
  South Asia Investor Review — Authority: 417
  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 ...
  2 weeks 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dubai: Big Risk, Little Reward

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  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.
  3 weeks ago

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