Rushdi Siddiqui-Head Of Islamic Finance-Thomson Reuters Archive
Featured Islamic Finance
The industry has alphabet bodies that deal with various issues but when it comes to public relations and marketing, there seems to be a gaping hole that is
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Featured Islamic Finance
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
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Featured Islamic Finance
The time has arrived to take a deeper dive on better understanding of Shariah compliant companies in an Islamic (or Shariah compliant) equity indexes. To many informed and
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Featured 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,
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Featured Islamic Finance
Is Islamic finance capturing the imagination of the Generation Y and Z (the youth) as employees and customers? What has Islamic finance financed to build?
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Featured Islamic Finance
If Islamic finance is about inclusion, where are the sisters?
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Islamic Finance
My children, son (14) and daughter (11), asked a straight-forward two-part question as part of their homework assignment on parent career choices: why did you chose Islamic finance?
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Featured Islamic Finance
Response to the New York Times article on Anti-Shariah Push
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Macroeconomic Data
TweetRamadhan is a period of introspection for Muslims and Islamic financial institutions to better observe Islamic teachings, appreciate our blessings and be moved to action by the burdens
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Islamic Finance
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
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Islamic Finance
Does Islamic Finance have A.I.R. (Authenticity, Innovation & Reach) or is it just hot air?
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Islamic Finance
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
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Islamic Finance
Tweet Islamic equity indices, 1.0, became a global ‘instrument’ in 1999, with the launch of the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIM). But, what progress, if any, has
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Islamic Finance
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
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Islamic Finance
TweetIs Manal Al Sharif the Rosa Parks of the Saudi Arabia? Ms Parks, a courageous black woman during the civil right movement in the US, refused to vacate
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Islamic Finance
Innovation and the ensuing needed authenticity are the pre-requisites to move Islamic finance to 2.0 or $2-Trillion by 2015
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