Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

WORLD - FINANCE - IIFM and ISDA Launch Mubadalatul Arbaah (MA) Profit Rate Swap (PRS) Product Standard

www.isda.org - BAHRAIN, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – The International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) are pleased to announce the launch of the ISDA/IIFM Mubadalatul Arbaah (Profit Rate Swap) product standard to be used for Islamic hedging purposes.

The Mubadalatul Arbaah (MA) standard follows on from the “ISDA/IIFM Tahawwut (Hedging) Master Agreement” and provides the industry with a framework for Islamic risk mitigation. The launch of the Tahawwut Master Agreement as the template for Shari’ah-compliant risk management was officially announced at a press conference hosted by Central Bank of Bahrain in March 2010. (source)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

PUBLICATIONS - FIQH - ISRA - Paper - The Concept and Operations of Swap as a Hedging Mechanism for Islamic Financial Institutions (No 14/2010)



The Concept and Operations of Swap as a Hedging Mechanism for Islamic Financial Institutions - ISRA Research Paper (No. 14/2010) 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, Head of Research Affairs Department, ISRA 


The paper discusses the concept and operations of the swap instrument as a hedging mechanism in the Islamic financial system.  The main objective of this paper is to give a clearer picture of the swap mechanism as offered by the international Islamic financial institutions and how its operations are structured in accordance with Shariah principles and contracts.