Continued Innovation For Market Relevance And Future Growth
Introduction
Like its conventional counterpart, the Islamic finance sector has had to withstand numerous challenges over the years, most...
This year’s theme of Developing a Distinct and Independent Value Proposition for Islamic Finance (DIVPIF) is GIFR’s boldest yet. Almost half a century since...
Within the conventional responsible finance bond market, a series of labels has been developed to categories issuances of responsible finance bonds. The label used...
The current pandemic has pushed governments, policymakers, and academicians worldwide to rethink possibilities of designing new financing instruments for socioeconomic development. The COVID-19 pandemic...
The Islamic Republic of PAKISTAN
Although the history of IsBF in Pakistan goes back to the 1980s (and possibly beyond), the Islamic banking system was...
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A Possible Existential Crises
Introduction
Most countries of the world have committed to achieving the sustainable developmental goals (SDGs) launched by the United Nations in 2015,...
Post-COVID Policy of Bank Indonesia
Relevance of Moral Values and Halal Sectors in an Islamic Economy
The performance of Islamic economy sector and Islamic financial institutions...
Introduction
When the world is facing twin hazards: health and exacerbated economic uncertainties, desperation is surging to either come out or adjust to the new...
After the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) almost a decade ago, many extraordinary transformations have taken place in the global financial system. A novel coronavirus,...
Ribawi Commodities
If gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates and salt are Ribawi commodities, does it mean other commodities are non-Ribawi?
If gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates...
One important requirement found in regulatory requirements in most jurisdictions is the establishment of a Committee of Shari‘ah expert by Takaful Operators (TO). Depending...
HIS EXCELLENCY AHMED OSMAN ALIGOVERNOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF DJIBOUTI
ISFIRE has over the last 10 year featured some of the most distinguished political...
Luisa Evaristo
Luisa Evaristo is the Chief Risk Officer of Etiqa Insurance & Takaful and member of the Senior Executive Committee of Maybank Ageas Holdings...
The phenomenon of philanthropy is dynamic and complex involving different values and activities brought together to produce such a system. Waqf is one example...
Why it matters for Islamic Financial Institutions
Ownership of enterprises has evolved over the years, from investor-owned enterprises, and customer-owned enterprises to employee-owned enterprises. Besides...
BackgroundPoverty is a global issue, and not a national one. However, the issue runs deeper in the developing and underdeveloped countries but even the...
The current pandemic has pushed governments, policymakers, and academicians worldwide to rethink possibilities of designing new financing instruments for socioeconomic development. The COVID-19 pandemic...
Introduction
The year ending December 2012 has proven to be a sukuk-dominating period for Islamic banking and finance. With a total value of USD144 billion...
It is widely agreed among the world's Islamic finance community that Islamic finance is a global phenomenon. Not just in Muslim countries, but non-Muslim...
Introduction
The growth of Islamic capital markets is a direct effect of the growth of the Islamic banking industry. The need for liquidity management...
Global demand-led opportunities
The obvious Muslim market: Growing, increasingly significant but fragmented
According to the Pew Research Center in 2011,1 the global Muslim population is expected...
Liquidity needs
The global financial crisis demonstrated that the freezing of international capital markets and the significant disruption of interbank and foreign exchange markets caused...
Self-perception
The takaful and retakaful industry is no longer in its infancy – it has experienced the incorporation boom in the early years of the...
