The Islamic finance industry's newest market, Oman, may be seeing a flurry of activity with new authorizations in Islamic advisory and Takaful following the
South African asset management company, the Oasis Group, a leading provider of Islamic and socially responsible investment products, is aggressively expanding it
If ever there is an opportunity for the Islamic finance industry to stand up and be counted and to be creative to boot, it is now in Libya’s hour of need. As t
From being off the Islamic banking radar earlier this year, Oman has now approved Islamic banking licenses for two banks, with a few more on the cards especially
It is as if Saudi corporates are queuing up to heed the advice of Muhammed Al-Jasser, governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) on the need for greate
The new president and chief executive officer of the International Center for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), the Islamic finance education arm of Bank Ne
With four months to go for the emirate’s conventional banks which have opened Islamic banking windows (IBWs) to close them down by Dec. 31, 2011 as per the dir
City-based international law firm Norton Rose LLP published a paper on “Protections against unauthorized use of Shariah-compliant financial methods and structu
The death in Kuala Lumpur recently of Dato' Mohd Razif bin Abd Kadir, deputy governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, leaves a major vacuum not only in his family
The Securities Appellate Tribunal of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the securities regulator, sitting in Mumbai has dismissed six appeals by
