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IFSB: Working Paper on Financial Consumer Protection in Islamic Finance

IFSB: Working Paper on Financial Consumer Protection in Islamic FinanceIslamic banking, Salam, Sukuk, Provision, Rabb, Reserves, Sales

Prof Volker Nienhaus | October 24, 2018

IFSB: Working Paper on Financial Consumer Protection in Islamic Finance

IFSB: Working Paper on Financial Consumer Protection in Islamic Finance

IFSB: Working Paper on Financial Consumer Protection in Islamic FinanceIslamic banking, Salam, Sukuk, Provision, Rabb, Reserves, Sales

Prof Volker Nienhaus | October 24, 2018

Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations

Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendationsTakaful, Participation

Clemens Breisinger | October 18, 2018

Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations

Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations

Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendationsTakaful, Participation

Clemens Breisinger | October 18, 2018

How to Find a Job in the Islamic Finance Industry: 5 Tips from Insiders

Islamic finance has a phenomenal identity. What is today a US$ 2.2 trillion industry had started off in 1970s as a humble effort to meet the banking needs of faith-conscious Muslims, primarily based on avoidance of interest and other non-halal transactions.Even though there are 1,407 Islamic financial institutions globally, the industry is notorious for not providing many job opportunities to new graduates. The primary reason is that despite all the buzz it receives the sector is still really small compared to conventional finance and faces a massive challenge to scale up, given that less th...

Saif Shawqi | October 18, 2018

How to Find a Job in the Islamic Finance Industry: 5 Tips from Insiders

How to Find a Job in the Islamic Finance Industry: 5 Tips from Insiders

Islamic finance has a phenomenal identity. What is today a US$ 2.2 trillion industry had started off in 1970s as a humble effort to meet the banking needs of faith-conscious Muslims, primarily based on avoidance of interest and other non-halal transactions.Even though there are 1,407 Islamic financial institutions globally, the industry is notorious for not providing many job opportunities to new graduates. The primary reason is that despite all the buzz it receives the sector is still really small compared to conventional finance and faces a massive challenge to scale up, given that less th...

Saif Shawqi | October 18, 2018

Unlocking discrete concepts of Islamic wealth management

WEALTH is known as mal that can be possessed, secured or stored. Islam views wealth as a trust and bounty from the Allah (SWT). In Islam, wealth is an economic measure that consists of both physical wealth and spiritual wealth, denoting wealth has a wider coverage than its conventional peer. The latter confines the definition to physical wealth out of a secularisation.There was a fallacy asserting that Islam does not support wealth generation but religious activities. This might be drawn from the ignorance on the real concept of wealth according to the primary sources. In contrast to poverty...

Dr Hanudin Amin | October 18, 2018

Unlocking discrete concepts of Islamic wealth management

Unlocking discrete concepts of Islamic wealth management

WEALTH is known as mal that can be possessed, secured or stored. Islam views wealth as a trust and bounty from the Allah (SWT). In Islam, wealth is an economic measure that consists of both physical wealth and spiritual wealth, denoting wealth has a wider coverage than its conventional peer. The latter confines the definition to physical wealth out of a secularisation.There was a fallacy asserting that Islam does not support wealth generation but religious activities. This might be drawn from the ignorance on the real concept of wealth according to the primary sources. In contrast to poverty...

Dr Hanudin Amin | October 18, 2018

A Review of Islamic Commercial and Social Finance in Pakistan

A Review of Islamic Commercial and Social Finance in PakistanIslam, Islamic banking, Murabaha, Sukuk, Waqf, Receivables

Dr Salman Ahmed Shaikh | October 16, 2018

A Review of Islamic Commercial and Social Finance in Pakistan

A Review of Islamic Commercial and Social Finance in Pakistan

A Review of Islamic Commercial and Social Finance in PakistanIslam, Islamic banking, Murabaha, Sukuk, Waqf, Receivables

Dr Salman Ahmed Shaikh | October 16, 2018

Risk Management of Islamic Banks: A Search for Empirical Evidences

Risk Management of Islamic Banks: A Search for Empirical EvidencesDinar, Islamic banking, Mudarib, Murabahah, Musharakah, Salam, Sukuk, Credit Risk, Investment Risk Reserve, Parallel Salam, Reserves

Sayed M Fadel | October 05, 2018

Risk Management of Islamic Banks: A Search for Empirical Evidences

Risk Management of Islamic Banks: A Search for Empirical Evidences

Risk Management of Islamic Banks: A Search for Empirical EvidencesDinar, Islamic banking, Mudarib, Murabahah, Musharakah, Salam, Sukuk, Credit Risk, Investment Risk Reserve, Parallel Salam, Reserves

Sayed M Fadel | October 05, 2018

Guidance Documents on Value-based Intermediation: Strengthening the Roles and Impact of Islamic Finance

Guidance Documents on Value-based Intermediation: Strengthening the Roles and Impact of Islamic Finance

IM Press Release | October 03, 2018

Guidance Documents on Value-based Intermediation: Strengthening the Roles and Impact of Islamic Finance

Guidance Documents on Value-based Intermediation: Strengthening the Roles and Impact of Islamic Finance

Guidance Documents on Value-based Intermediation: Strengthening the Roles and Impact of Islamic Finance

IM Press Release | October 03, 2018

From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in Singapore

From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in SingaporeWaqf, Provision

Tang Hang Wu | October 02, 2018

From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in Singapore

From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in Singapore

From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in SingaporeWaqf, Provision

Tang Hang Wu | October 02, 2018

The Relationship Between Saving and Investment: The Case of Saudi Arabia

The Relationship Between Saving and Investment: The Case of Saudi Arabia

Abdulelah Alrasheedy | October 01, 2018

The Relationship Between Saving and Investment: The Case of Saudi Arabia

The Relationship Between Saving and Investment: The Case of Saudi Arabia

The Relationship Between Saving and Investment: The Case of Saudi Arabia

Abdulelah Alrasheedy | October 01, 2018

SMEs: Adoption of Islamic Finance in Pakistan

Influence of Awareness on SME’s Intention towards adoption of Islamic Finance in PakistanIslamic banking, Shariah

Rabia Rasheed | October 01, 2018

SMEs: Adoption of Islamic Finance in Pakistan

SMEs: Adoption of Islamic Finance in Pakistan

Influence of Awareness on SME’s Intention towards adoption of Islamic Finance in PakistanIslamic banking, Shariah

Rabia Rasheed | October 01, 2018