Islamic finance news

Islamic banking share improved 6.4 percent in September RIZWAN BHATTI Available at: http://www.brecorder.com/news/money-and-banking/pakistan/1140390:news.html KARACHI (January 06, 2011) : Islamic Banking Industry (IBI) has sustained growth momentum […]

Malaysia has become the world hub of the booming Islamic banking Available at: http://www.onislam.net/english/news/asia-pacific/450413-malaysia-hub-of-islamic-banking.html CAIRO – While modifying legal structures to be more adaptable to Islamic […]

Islamic Finance and Banking Report 2010 published by the Global Islamic Finance Magazine is out today. Islamic Finance and Banking Report 2010: Contents Islamic Finance 12 […]

Court orders Islamic bank to compensate firm Dh9.85m deducted unfairly from account By Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief, and Dina Aboul Hosn, Staff Reporters Available at: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/court-orders-islamic-bank-to-compensate-firm-1.740651 […]

Female Shariah Scholars See Gender Gap Closing on Growth: Islamic Finance By Suryani Omar and Soraya Permatasari – Available at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-02/female-shariah-scholars-say-gender-gap-closing-on-growth-islamic-finance.html Asian Islamic financial institutions are […]

Right track, wrong train? By Rushdie Siddiqui Available at: http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/isfo10/Article/index_html THE year 2010 was a year of “headwinds” for Islamic finance, and the last article of […]

Single GCC currency Available at: http://arabnews.com/opinion/editorial/article226032.ece Think of a time when the US dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency Europeans will remember 2010 as […]

Malaysia still reviewing mega Islamic bank bid Available at: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/business/2010/December/business_December527.xml&section=business KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s central bank said on Wednesday it was still reviewing offers to set […]

McKinsey Quarterly Top Ten Articles of 2010 by McKinsey Quarterly Available at: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/topten/2010_Q3.htm We’ve rounded up the most popular articles among readers this year. Topics they […]