For decades, developing countries across the Global South have relied on government borrowing, foreign aid, multilateral ...
New York-Jeddah-Beirut, 11 May 2021—The United Nations and the Islamic Development Bank today launched an initiative to help fund efforts to recover better as the world continues to grapple with the ...
GIFP aims to design a roadmap to mobilize public and private Islamic capital to originate and fund bankable Nature-based Solutions COP28 saw a major step forward for the Global Islamic Finance Program ...
More than 200 researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and finance leaders gathered at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS) on 23–24 September for “Values for Impact 2026: Solidarity, ...
The Gulf may not be highlighted on maps of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but the region has certainly experienced a rise in relations, particularly in the economic sphere on which the BRI is ...
Global Finance: Last year, Ahli United Bank [AUB] completed its conversion to an all-Islamic bank. Why did you choose to drop conventional banking? Ahmed Alkharji: AUB converted its banking license ...
• Putting in place a financing system that is both Shariah compliant and produces a return for investors is a challenge • Regulators in a Shariah-compliant system require more transparency from banks ...