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Islamic Mutual Funds

Deutsche Bank has joined the lists of those launching Shari’a compliant products, launching a series of mutual funds. These include a precious metals fund and several equity funds. The pity is that...

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Islamic Finance – Accounting Standards

It may seem prosaic, but one of the problems that “Western” banks have with Islamic financial structures is the question of how to account for them. Under interest-based banking it is an easy call. In...

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Opportunities Down Under: Islamic Finance In Australia

This is a reprint of an article published in Business Islamica Magazine Since the first large-scale Muslim migration to Australia occurred in the early 1970s, the Islamic community has grown from just...

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Islamic Funds Conference

I am in Bahrain for the (rather long named) World Islamic Funds Management and Capital Markets Conference. This morning we had the opening “Executive Summary” to set the scene. They touched on a few...

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BIS General Manager on Islamic Finance

Malcolm Knight, General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements, gave a speech last Thursday to the 2nd Islamic Financial Services Board Forum, outlining how the IFSB, the BIS and the BCBS are...

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Sharia in Western Law?

The speech given yesterday by the Archbishop of Canterbury is interesting – to say the least. He goes in great depth into many of the issues confronted by those trying to give some effect to Sharia in...

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Poll Time

Quick poll on Islamic Finance (IF) and the current situation. If you want to know a bit more on IF, please see our category. If you have a suggestion for a further poll, please leave it below. I would...

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NAB to Introduce Islamic Finance?

The article in the Australian Financial Review today (page 59) saying the NAB may be serious about IF is a touch premature. That said, there is some hope.

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IFRS 9 – Update on Classification and Measurement

The “final” released standard on classification and measurement as released today is – not final. This is for the simple reason that financial liabilities have been specifically scoped out. The reason...

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Islamic Finance in Australia – Update

Following the publication of a document on Islamic Finance (IF) by Austrade this week, perhaps we may get something serious in the way of development of this area in Australia. Interestingly, the Trade...

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