Rushdi Siddiqui-Head Of Islamic Finance-Thomson Reuters Archive

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves, said Bill Vaughn. Islamic finance

On November 22, 2011, the world’s first Islamic interbank benchmark rate (IIBR) was launched. It is the result of a collaborative approach taken by many Islamic financial institution,

If Islamic finance is about inclusion, where are the sisters?

Response to the New York Times article on Anti-Shariah Push

One of the most over-used words in Islamic finance is not standardization, scholars, regulations, etc., but 'consolidation'. Islamic banks, Islamic leasing companies, Takaful companies need to consolidate to

Islamic finance did not invent or innovate negative screening for publicly listed companies to arrive at a sub- universe of "ethical" companies. In fact, Islamic equity investing is

Tweet The price of oil is not the only ‘greaser’ for expansion of Islamic finance. Lately, a number of countries seem to be pre-empting social-movement-cum-change of regime as

Innovation and the ensuing needed authenticity are the pre-requisites to move Islamic finance to 2.0 or $2-Trillion by 2015