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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

SUKUK - UK firm to launch first European corporate sukuk


LONDON | Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:21am BST

LONDON (Reuters) - A small British manufacturer has become the first company in Europe to raise funds through sukuk, kicking off an industry which has struggled to find traction in the wake of debt worries in Islamic finance centre Dubai.

International Innovative Technologies, a maker of industrial milling machines in northeast England, has raised $10 million (6 million pounds) through a private-equity-style sukuk to help develop new products, its legal adviser, Norton Rose, told Reuters.