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By Andy Sambidge (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/560297-former-islamic-finance-company-chief-jailed) Five former senior officials of an islamic finance firm have been jailed after being found guilty of charges including breach of trust […]

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=423922- The international integration of Islamic finance should be facilitated by the mutual recognition of financial standards and products across jurisdictions, […]

MCCA announces Islamic bank ambition By Alison Bell Available at http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-business/mcca-announces-islamic-bank-ambition-20090706-dabx.html Local Islamic banking co-operative, the Muslim Community Co-operative (Australia) Ltd (MCCA) is confident of securing […]

By Mohd Johan Lee. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8573843 The sale of debt to third parties, especially through multiple securitisations, has been blamed for fueling the worst global […]

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 […]