Islamic Industry Continues to Grow

The execution of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and MENA's economies have surpassed world development. In the interim, Saudi's non-oil division has conveyed quickening development rates as the economy differentiates. Supported by hearty GDP development and macroeconomic security, shopper certainty is well over the provincial normal. Developing private credit and expanded open uses on framework and different activities give a wide premise to powerful open doors over the Middle East, however in Saudi Arabia these are interpreting into especially solid and maintained development in household request. KSA itself has never been more dedicated to supporting financial development. Powerful development in government incomes is supporting twofold digit increments in government consumptions on social, base, and other ventures. Maybe significantly more critical in the long haul, an undeniably deregulated and focused financial environment is supporting a blast of business arrangement as the private area plays an inexorably noticeable part in the economy (AT&T

The world of Islamic Finance is still young and it was begins only a few decades ago. Although it is new, the Islamic Finance is rapidly develop and continues to expand to serve a growing population of Muslim. Many have been able to accept the Islamic financial system and even admiration of Islamic finance is increasing due to the uniqueness found in the Islamic financial system. The definition of Islamic finance is the system in finance that operates it activities based on Islamic law (which is called Sharia) and is therefore Sharia compliant. All Islamic financial activities is free from interest (riba) and it is based on profit sharing activities.

Shahjanaz Kamaruddin begins this article by stating that Malaysia has developed into becoming a full-fledged Islamic financial system operating in parallel to its conventional counterpart. Islamic finance is based on the Islamic principle of Syariah which is relevant in today’s world. According to the Islamic Finance Development (IFD) Report 2014, Malaysia is the undisputed in sukuk(bond) with a 63% of global market share. Malaysia performs very well across 5 indicators which are quantitative development, knowledge, governance, CSR (corporate social responsibility) and

Apart from General takaful, wakalah model was applied in takaful family. In this model, the contribution of revenue from the contributions and contributions are divided into investment accounts (PIF), the risk of Accounts (PRF) and also wakalah fees. The division between the PIF, PRF and wakalah fees are based on the value or rate agreed in the contract. Fee income for the operator wakalah is based on the concept of al-Wakala bi al-Ajr and budget management. PIF and surplus funds in the PRF will be invested in instruments of government of Islam, Islamic private debt securities and equity, fixed assets, cash accounts and investment accounts.

The pairing of Islamic Finance and crowdfunding could quite possibly evolve the current American Islamic mortgage product from that whose emphasis is almost solely focused on interest aversion into a product that embraces Islamic fundamentals. Such an Islamic finance vehicle, consistent with the sharing economy methodology, would conform with ALL

In addition, Islamic bonds are still far superior as compared to conventional binds, underpinned by the following factors: • Fairness and transparency. The financier and customer share the risks and rewards based on an agreed profit-sharing ratio. The roles and responsibilities of the parties to a contract are also explicitly disclosed and transparent. Asset-backed transactions. Islamic financial transactions must be backed by an underlying tangible asset or legitimate productive activity. This discourages over-exposure of the financing facility beyond the value of the underlying asset, and hence provides continuous security to the investors Ethical investment. Islamic finance prohibits the charging or paying of interest, and imposes restrictions on unethical and speculative financial activities

These Short Essays are partial fulfillment of Paper IE1001 of Part 1 of Certified Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP) [DRAFT V0.4]

I, Miss. Sarmistha Sasmal, the student of M.Com (Banking & Finance)(Semester-I), from The Sydenham College Of Commerce & Economics, hereby declare that I have completed this project on INTERNATIONAL BANKING, in the academic year 2012-2013 .

In context of modern economics, Islamic banking is a completely new concept for most of people in this domain. The Islamic bank established in 1963 in the city of Mit Ghamr, Egypt is believed to be the first of its kind, even though it was not publicly characterized to be so due to political persecution. The Egyptian government at that time used to be hostile to any activities that are believed to adopt any Islamic approach and duped them to be unwanted fanaticism. The bank’s first administration board was chaired by Mr. Ahmed Al Najar and remained in business until 1967. This experience was later replicated in 1975 by the first bank to be openly branded Islamic, the Dubai Islamic Bank, which was an integrated bank offering all of its financial and investment services according to Islamic Sharia guidelines. As a result of the success of this new type of banking, 267 Islamic banks were established in 48 countries around the world yielding a volume of business surpassing $250 billion estimated by The General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions CIBAFI (Arif 1988).

Today, Islamic finance has shown impressive performance with the Islamic finance industry’s assets are estimated to have amounted to $1.8 trillion as at end-2013, recording an over 16% y-o-y growth according to KFH-Research. In a newly released report “Islamic Finance Outlook 2014” by Kuwait Finance House Research Limited (KFHR), the Islamic finance industry is forecasted to continue to chart tremendous double digit growth rates across all sectors, with total industry assets estimated to reach approximately $2.1 trillion as at end-2014.

With increasing demand for Shariah compliant stocks, countries like Malaysia have moved to introduce an Islamic stock market as an alternative to conventional stock market. This stock market consists of stock that is compliance to the Shariah. To

Millions of poor practicing Muslims around the world need access to Sharia (Islamic law) compliant financial tools. According to CGAP 2013, there are around 255 Islamic microfinance providers in the world (Figure 1 and 2). Studies conducted in Bangladesh, Sudan and Indonesia show that Islamic microfinance is growing at much faster rate than conventional microfinance. TechNavio forecasts the market to grow at a CAGR of 19.7 percent over the period 2013-2018. There is a huge opportunity for the growth of Islamic Microfinance in Pakistan as well. This sector is scattered and there is a need for concerted effort on part of the policymakers and financial institutions to provide diversity in products/providers and sustainable Islamic financing models. The government of Pakistan is keen on expanding the Islamic banking sector and it makes sense to focus on Islamic microfinance sector at the same time.

This study is undertaken to understand the concept and features of Islamic banking and conventional banking, the similarity and differences between the two systems and their economic implications. Generally, a financial institution or a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly or through capital markets is given the name of bank. its source of generating revenue and cost of funds is charging of interest through lending and also accepting deposits for interest respectively. Interest is the major driver of operations of conventional banks although other valuable services including guarantees, funds transfers, safety of wealth, facilitation in international trade etc., also form a substantial part of income of banks.

In a dual banking framework such as Malaysia, there is potential for substitution for Islamic banking services and conventional banking services. This is because both of the products share the similar features.

Sejak awal kelahirannya bank syariah dilandasi dengan kehadiran dua gerakan renaissance Islam Modern: neorevivalis dan modernis, tujuan utama dari pendirian lembaga keuangan berlandaskan etika ini, tiada lain sebagai upaya kaum muslimin untuk mendasari segenap aspek kehidupan ekonominya berlandaskan Al-Qur’an dan As-Sunnah. Upaya awal penerapan sistem profit dan loss sharing tercatat di Pakistan dan Malaysia sekitar tahun 1940-an, yaitu adanya upaya mengelola dana jamaah haji secara non-konvensional. Rintisan institusional lainnya adalah Islamic Rural Bank di desa Mit Ghamr pada tahun 1963 di Kairo, Mesir.