Are all these shariah-compliant financial institutions and products really performing as these press reports claim?
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The Coalition to Stop Shariah calls on the Treasury Department to cancel this indoctrination session, to cease its efforts to promote Shariah-Compliant Finance and to recognize Shariah for what it is - sedition - and treat it accordingly by, among other things, banning its application to U.S. financial institutions and products.
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Global identifiers for financial institutions and for products are a fundamental requirement for risk reduction, says Allan Grody, president of Financial InterGroup Holdings, Ltd.
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These programs, by and large, are not tied to formal financial products or institutions and the funds remitted are often spent immediately upon receipt.
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The two men talked about capital requirement rules for financial institutions, and regulating trading of financial products and over-the-counter derivatives in particular, according to a statement issued by Mr. Barnier after the meeting.
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And, increasinly, many large Western institutions, including HSBC and Citigroup, offer Shariah compliant mortgage and investment products.
She started selling paper products to motels and other institutions, but that division left Wisconsin for Atlanta.
While you may not get a network of ubiquitous branches like big banks, the customer service and financial products at smaller financial institutions have a reputation for excellence.
An elite cadre of scholars dominates the advisory boards of Shariah institutions, and these same thinkers are often called by Western institutions who want to develop Shariah-compliant products.
To the extent that the U.S. government now owns and controls many of the financial institutions offering SCF products, such conduct is not only enabling seditious behavior.
This debate is about whether the full force of government can be used to force religious institutions to violate their own faith and pay for services and products that violate the tenets of their teaching.
Partnerships with local NGOs and microfinance institutions (MFIs) has helped launch some microinsurance products.
And some institutions, bankers allege, were parking illiquid structured products in their trading books to attract a lower capital charge (regulators now plan to beef these charges up).
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Bank of America is one of the leading financial institutions in the U.S. and provides a range of products and services like credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, commercial loans, investment banking services and wealth management.
But much of it was due to the irresponsibility of large financial institutions on Wall Street that gambled on risky loans and complex financial products, seeking short-term profits and big bonuses with little regard for long-term consequences.
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"There is a sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum products from countries other than Iran to permit a significant reduction in the volume of petroleum and petroleum products purchased from Iran by or through foreign financial institutions, " Obama said Friday in a statement.
Citigroup Inc. (C), a diversified financial services holding company, provides a range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide.
Further, CLC assists its members in managing, developing, and protecting their brands, and specifically provides that licensing assures only quality products are associated with member institutions.
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Smith was not selling sophisticated financial products to retail investors, he was selling them to large and sophisticated institutions.
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While commodity products like ETFs have natural price competition working in their favor and large institutions have internal staff and consultants to negotiate on their behalf, individual investors face a host of challenges in the war on fees.
However, other factors, including a broader retrenchment in the willingness of investors to bear risk, difficulties in valuing complex or illiquid financial products, uncertainties about the exposures of major financial institutions to credit losses, and concerns about the weaker outlook for the economy, have also roiled the financial markets in recent months.
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The idea was that these exchanges would be able to trade products that are less susceptible to manipulation (as trading commodities like silver and oil are) between institutions that are seeking to hedge risks.
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