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Bringing Islamic finance back to its roots in a regulated manner

June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Bringing Islamic finance back to its roots in a regulated manner

 

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Islamic Finance is in vogue. Various financial centres around the world are vying with each other to assume the mantle of pre-eminence in Islamic finance, challenging upstarts with a wider variety of Islamic finance and product “innovation”

In the Gulf, Bahrain has tried to develop such a niche, while Malaysia has been a pioneer in the Far East. But it is London, with five licensed Islamic finance institutions, that has been making the running, and the finance institutions located in that city have been vigorous in lobbying the UK government to treat Islamic finance products on a par with non-Islamic offerings.

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Categories: Bahrain · Innovations · Malaysia · United Kingdom

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