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By Bradley Hope, © The National 2009. Available at http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090624050302/Boardroom%20Overhauls Under pressure from the economic downturn, companies across the country are shaking up their leadership structures […]

Despite the International Council of Fiqh Academy, recently declared organised tawarruq impermissible, Malaysian stock exchange still plan to launch tawarruq based platform to execute commodity murabaha […]

Originally taken from “Godly but ambitious” featured out in the Economist (Available at: http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13856281). MOST practitioners of Islamic finance pride themselves on their modesty. But not […]

By Anwar Elshamy (http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=297072&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28) A financial expert has called for abolishing the current paper money system and returning to gold currencies instead, saying it was the […]

Financial Times By Dr Humayon Dar. (Available at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b96e901a-48c3-11de-8870-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1) Sir, The impressive growth of the Islamic finance industry over the past decade has not gone unnoticed […]

By Robin Brant. (Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8025410.stm) Experts in Islamic finance believe their way of doing business has shielded them from the global credit crisis. But how […]

Assalamualaikum, Dear Readers, I would like to share my recent thoughts on the issue of Corporate Governance in Islamic financial institutions featured in the newsletter of […]