Post By:Ashish Rajadhyaksha Financial turmoil over the past decade as we all know was primarily caused by Financial Greed; Irrational Exuberance; Excessive Debt; Low Interest Rates, and Insufficient Enforcement of Regulations. During 2007-2008, along with everybody else, I saw my retirement savings and stock market holdings decline by more than 50%, but luckily I made […]
Category: Islamic Finance
Resilience of Islamic Banking in Malaysia
Post courtesy TalkBack in Deloitte’s Islamic Finance Knowledge Centre Written by: David Vicary Mushtaq Parker, in last week’s Arab News, published an excellent article on the above topic. He outlined how increasing profitability had allowed Islamic Banking institutions to provide very competitive returns to their depositors, thereby allowing them to continue to attract deposits. More […]
For Good Of The Public
Post By: David (Daud) Vicary (Abdullah) Islamic Finance and the Public Good Greater synergy needed between the Halal and the Islamic Finance Industries In the preface to our Book, Entitled “Islamic Finance – Why It Makes Sense”, my co-author, Keon Chee, and I expressed two, equally, important objectives for writing the book. 1. First […]
In the Name of Egypt
Editorial Post by Bernardo Vizcaino, CAIA in Opalesque Islamic Finance Intelligence The month of January started out as uneventful and the rest of 2011 seemed confined to the same fate… clearly the demonstrations, protests and clashes that have engulfed the Middle East since then have proven otherwise. Very few could have foreseen the depth of […]
E.P.L. In Islamic Finance– LIQUIDITY–Where Is It?
Post by: David (Daud) Vicary (Abdullah) This is the final part of a three part series on EPLand focuses on Liquidity (part 1 and part 2 are here). Anyone who has ever run a business will know that Liquidity is the lifeblood of that business. The same is true of a Financial Institution; you only […]
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