Islamic Finance News- MALAYSIA: Kesas receives ‘AA2/Stable’ rating reaffirmation on RM735 million (US$180.74 million) Sukuk Musharakah
- MALAYSIA: Celcom Networks maintains ‘AA+IS’ rating on RM5 billion (US$1.23 billion) Sukuk Murabahah program
- MALAYSIA: Alpha Circle receives Sukuk rating outlook boost following improvement in volume of foreign worker permits
- SRI LANKA: Amana Bank strikes partnership with MegaPay to facilitate public donations via payment kiosks
- MALAYSIA: RAM reaffirms ‘AAA(bg)/Stable’ rating on EKVE’s guaranteed Sukuk Murabahah facility
- BAHRAIN: National Bank of Bahrain successfully closes acquisition of Bahrain Islamic Bank
- GLOBAL: AAOIFI issues final standard on code of ethics for Islamic finance professionals
- SAUDI ARABIA: Allied Cooperative Insurance Group to reduce capital by canceling shares; plans to issue priority rights shares following capital reduction exercise
- UAE: Al Ramz Corporation Investment & Development acquires SHUAA Capital’s market-making business
- UAE: Al Hilal Bank to sell Al Hilal Takaful to Siraj Holding
Tag Archives: Financial Institutions
The Potential Opportunities with Fintech for Islamic Banking
Salman Ahmed Shaikh Islamic finance can help in enabling access to financial services for people who want Islamic financial services. The key question is that can Islamic finance also provide access to financial services to the bottom of the pyramid … Continue reading
Risk Management Tools in Islamic Banking
Salman Ahmed Shaikh In this article, we discuss the major risks that Islamic banks face in their commercial operations and the tools with which they mitigate these risks. Credit Risk Credit risk is generally defined as the risk that the … Continue reading
Islam and Institution of Interest Based Lending
Danial Pirani In modern times, the institution of interest is regarded as critical for the stability of an economy. Nearly all the economic and financial institutions are, in one way or the other, connected to the interest based transactions. Interest … Continue reading
Potential of Islamic Finance to Lead New Financial Architecture
Salman Ahmed Shaikh The financial crisis of 2007-2009 and ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe has challenged the conventional wisdom. Massive levels of debt and consumption beyond means and speedy financial innovation with lax regulation has put major economies in … Continue reading
Risk Aversion And Islamic Financial Economics
Salman Ahmed Shaikh Risk aversion is an observed behavior and there is empirical evidence that people generally are risk averse. By risk averse, we mean to say that people are willing to pay a higher risk premia than what is … Continue reading
Distributional Inequity and Welfare Loss in Interest Based Financial System
Salman Ahmed Shaikh Capitalism, the way it is practiced as an economic system, has largely allowed and provided legal cover to certain exploitative institutions and their operations based on free market philosophy. Such institutions have been chiefly responsible for much … Continue reading
Physiological and Psychological Dimensions of Scarcity
Salman Ahmed Shaikh Resources are scarce as compared to unlimited wants. But, the economics of non-rival ideas creation has proved that resources are ample and that physical resources could be used in ways that keeps fulfilling the basic needs of … Continue reading
Form Versus the Substance Debate in Islamic Finance
Salman Ahmed Shaikh In currently practiced Islamic banking, the debt based modes of finance are used predominantly and these products are priced with same interest based benchmarks, which the conventional banks use. To some scholars, it seems that practiced Islamic … Continue reading
Problems with Inflation Indexation of Loans
Salman Ahmed Shaikh In past, some scholars have proposed to index financial loans in inflationary periods with some inflation index. In this article, we analyze the potential problems with this proposal. Problems from Applied Perspective If this proposal is suggested … Continue reading
