On the international level, the establishment of the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation by the IFSB (Singapore) - to be hosted in Malaysia - was the headline that captured the attention. Liquidity management tools are much needed and this international collaboration is timely.
On a global scale, there is also a growth in Islamic compliant Exchange Traded Fund ETF, that will give more easy access to Islamic compliant stock to foreign investors. The development probably is only at its' early stages and more is to come.
I started adding the news about the local ratings on sukuk and Islamic financial institutions, together with some speeches, as long as they are relevant and bring something new.
Lifestyle : Halal-tourism is in the UP-spiral and RI prepares to profile internationally in Halal-licensing .
One somewhat older video (2008) of Albaraka - announcing that they were interested in establishing in Indonesia - was added. Some new publications of ISRA (Malaysia) were also announced. There was an interesting study from the IMF - Islamic banks : more resilient to the crisis ?
The links are hereunder :
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