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Disclosure of Material Information: Outcomes of KFH Media Conference - Kuwait Finance House Press for the link: KFH - بيت التمويل الكويتي

A Review Of Journals & Publishing Houses In The Field Of Islamic Economics & Finance- Ahsan Shafiq, IKAM

After 7 years of my encounter with Goldman Sachs sukuk, I reveal for the first time my narrative side of the story in this documentary **Based on facts** https://youtu.be/KYuVGRmvANc On 19 of Oct,2011, Goldman Sachs received regulatory approval to list its controversial $2 billion sukuk. On the 7th year anniversary

For unknown reasons, Saudi issuers have over-relied on the floating rate when it comes to pricing riyal denominated Islamic bonds (sukuk). We are not taking about short-term tenor here, rather medium-term. It is a unique feature that differentiates its local debt capital market from any part of the world. I

Back in early April 2018, Saudi Arabia’s securities regulator announced that it had approved the listing of local currency government sukuk and bonds on the Saudi Stock Exchange. By October 2018, the total size of listed of Riyal-denominated government debt stood at more than the equivalent of $66 billion in

Information package. (french,english, arabic) https://www.academia.edu/8647976/Senegal_Sukuk_Africas_first_sovereign_sukuk_to_the_international_capital_market

ICD Reprises its role by assisting another West African State to issue a Sovereign Sukuk to the International Market (french,english, arabic) https://www.academia.edu/22670008/ICD_supports_Ivory_Coast_to_successfully_Issue_the_largest_West_African_Sovereign_Sukuk_Developing_Regional_Debt_Market_in_Africa_INFORMATION_PACKAGE_

Information package (Eng,French, Arabic,Japanese) https://www.academia.edu/30124458/Jordan_closes_its_Inaugural_Sovereign_Local_Currency_Sukuk_INFORMATION_PACKAGE_

From a 19-storey tower in Jeddah, the offices of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) overlook the Red Sea toward over half of all countries in the world where the multilateral development financing institution aspires to continue transforming the landscape of human development through “providing resources, fighting poverty, restoring human dignity”.

I venerate those self-propelled individuals who have not ascended to their current position through the ‘plague of our age’: nepotism. I look up to that rare breed: those who persevere in the face of nepotism to attain the highest of positions. I salute those who were not employed or promoted

When the first Islamic low-cost carrier took to the skies over the last days of 2015, it was signalling for the start of a new dawn for the Halal travel industry. Malaysia’s Rayani Air is a ‘spin-off’ for the pioneering traditional Islamic full service carriers (eg Royal Brunei, Saudia and Iran Air). Rayani, already

The founding father of non-interest banking in Nigeria was waiting for that special moment, in 2012, to mark a turning point in the country’s financial sector. Nigerians from all walks of life were to bank with the first institution aimed at extending non-interest commercial facilities in the country. Those depositors

The first thought that crossed my mind when I heard the phrase ‘Marriage Takaful’ was, did we just launch an insurance policy which will compensate the divorcee(s) from the high cost incurred by a divorce? All hopes were dashed. The product of ‘Marriage Takaful’ refers to a savings plan scheme,

Almost every month I receive academic enquires or a request for career advice from Islamic finance students. I always keep wondering who will make the cut and join our industry. This is the sad story of how the Islamic finance industry is losing its young prospective foot soldiers.  I have