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 reason behind the recent financial crisis was the failure of corporate governance, resulting in financial institutions suffering heavy losses. Regulators should always make...
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...
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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...
During the last decade, Islamic finance has raised its competitiveness and coverage vis-à-vis conventional finance, through Shari’a-compliant product innovation to widen the scope of...
Induction Of A New Islamic Microfinance Model In Nigeria
A new Islamic microfinance model – entitled Manara Project – was developed in Nigeria. A popular...
Waqf as an Islamic economic instrument has an important role to play in socio-economic development. In Indonesia, land waqf assets span over 4,359 billion...
As digital technologies invade modern life, classroom learning is increasingly shifting towards smart learning. This phenomenon is taking place both in the academic as...
An Islamic Perspective
The announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has attracted the attention of many parties. Guyer (2015) for instance mentions that there...
INTRODUCTION
Islamic banking and finance (IBF) today is making giant strides in terms of development and delivery of products and services. As reported by Global...
Shari’a is the foundation of the Islamic finance industry. It differentiates the industry with conventional finance. But the replication of products creates substantive issues...
