Islamic banking

Shareholder activism is rare in Islamic finance, but one wealth manager has staked out new territory as the most outspoken…

A London-based Islamic financial technology start-up has become the first company of its kind to be given regulatory approval in…

A forum held Saturday by the Union of Arab Banks in Sharm al-Sheikh called upon Islamic banks to reinforce the…

The Shura Council approved in late March a law allowing the issuance of sukuk, or Islamic bonds, which the heavily…

As Egypt's banking sector struggles under the weight of a credit crunch, Arab banks are seeing the crisis as an…

The draft law on sukuk (Islamic bonds) will likely be approved by all the relevant institutions, including the Finance Ministry,…

Officials went to the drawing board with a controversial law on  sukuk , or Islamic-sanctioned bonds, that was set to…

The Cabinet during its meeting Wednesday approved in principle a draft law on sovereign Islamic bonds and decided it would…

The economic stagnation of the past year and a half has taken a toll on many businesses, but a fleet…

  Prime Minister Hashem Qandil announced last month his government’s intention to issue one or two rounds of sukuk, a…