Newsletter & Bulletin

Education to propel takaful industry in the next decade

Zain, Salim Majid (2017)

Takaful, a subset of the Islamic finance industry, has seen strong growth in the last decade due to the rising demand for Shariah compliant financial products globally. Increasing awareness in the global arena especially the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and the predominant Islamic countries have...

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How sukuk can play its role to drive the growth of sustainable and repsonsible investment

Haneef, Rafe (2017)

The imminent intergenerational wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to their heirs who are members of Generation Y, the Millennials, and Generation Z means that the financial institution that ignores ESG in its operations and financing does so at the risk of ignoring what matters to the bulk of its future...

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Trust, ethics, stock markets and economic growth

Ng, Adam Boon Ka (2017)

By 2007, more than US$ 15 trillion was held by over 91 million individual investors in stocks and corporate bonds, either directly or through mutual and pension funds. These massive investments and financial markets could not have conceivably reached such a size had it not been for most people having...

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Towards risk-sharing regulatory framework: a case for Malaysia

Lajis, Siti Muawanah (2017)

This dissertation studied the efficacy of contemporary Islamic banking regulatory framework in promoting risk-sharing finance. Malaysia is selected as a case study given its strengths as an advanced and comprehensive Islamic financial market. The study found that, risk-transfer philosophy is dominant...