The Insurance services segment covers life, medical, motor, marine, property and credit insurance products and services, and Islamic banking segment provides Islamic banking solutions through its subsidiary, BLOM DEVELOPMENT BANK SAL (BDB).
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Mr. Erdogan has replaced nearly every member of the banking regulatory board with officials from the Islamic banking sector.
And as a result, you started to see in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and in Sudan the development of large Islamic banking institutions who did business according to Islamic principles.
While acknowledging that Shariah compliant financial products can be complex, Stuart Levey, the Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has stated that such practices are monitored byfederal banking agencies and that the risk factors with Islamic banking are not unique.
But Sudan's banking industry remains embryonic and few African countries combine the strong desire to promote Islamic banking with heavy demand from Muslim customers.
Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and other hubs that have caught on to Islamic finance.
Habibie, was less reticent --he is credited with giving Islamic banking a big boost.
He says that even foreign banks in Malaysia are obliged to provide Islamic banking services.
In some cases, Warde says, Middle Eastern governments have embraced Islamic banking to advertise their religious chops.
The Chase executive, Omair Mooraj, is managing director and head of Islamic banking for the entire region.
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Of course, Islamic banking is much more complex than medieval Christian money lending.
At equilibrium, all its investments will yield the same expected return, equal to the lending interest rate in non-Islamic banking.
But Youssif said he is not in favour of shifting towards Islamic finance without fully understanding all the aspects of Islamic banking.
When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown declared that he wanted London to become the global centre of Islamic banking.
Islamic banking adheres to Shariah law by forbidding the charging of interest and investment in businesses involved in products or servces contrary to Islam.
It's usually referred to as Islamic finance or Islamic banking.
It also means that Islamic banking needs to be full-reserve banking--Western banks typically loan out a multiple of the amount of money they have on hand, or in reserve.
For the moment, Dubai holds the title of Islamic banking hub--but it could soon lose ground, both to traditional competitors like Bahrain and newcomers on the scene like London and even Singapore.
No one can say for sure how many will seek out banking that complies with Islamic law, or even pay a premium for it.
Banking scholars also argue that Islamic law blocked indigenous financial modernization in Muslim countries because of an inheritance system that restrained capital accumulation, inhibitions on pooling resources that discouraged investment diversification, and a traditional aversion to the concept of legal personhood for corporations, which hampered the development of financial entities.
Some refuse to use a bank for religious reasons: many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis do not have accounts because Islamic tenets conflict with modern banking practices.
The banking board is worried in case panic spreads to depositors at other Islamic financial institutions.
Shariah finance is an extension of Islamic law, pushing a faith-based alternative to Western banking.
Not only has banking itself developed into a complex range of financial services, from insurance to home loans, that Islamic banks must synthesize, but Sharia also proscribes involvement in transactions involving alcohol, pork and gambling.
"Islamic bankers should do some missionary work in the Western world to promote the concept of Shariah banking, for which many in the West are more than ready now, " Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the World Islamic Economic Forum last month in Jakarta.
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