Introduction
With assets recently reaching the US$ 1 trillion bar, the Islamic finance industry’s growth and reach have become impossible to ignore. With assets quadrupling...
Retail banking products: An evolution in the offering
The GCC is the nesting ground for Islamic banking and finance. The region has seen robust growth...
Introduction
fund family has been offered for distribution to the literally hundreds of broker/dealer operations in GCC, from Kuwait to Saudi Arabia to the UAE....
Introduction
Given the unprecedented upheaval and destruction wrought by two world wars, much of the 20th Century infrastructure development in industrialized countries was funded by...
Introduction
Ever since the collapse and subsequent nationalisation of many conventional financial institutions around the globe, the world credit market has experienced significant tightening, with...
Introducing derivatives
Derivatives are financial contracts - the inherent values of which are derived from, and exist by reference to, independently existing underlying(s). The underlying(s)...