Islamic Finance

  Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated …

Deteriorating financial woes in the United States have forced Washington to reduce its military presence in the Persian Gulf. The news comes after the US administration was forced to sign into effect the spending cuts known as the sequester on Friday, which will take USD 85 billion from the US federal budget in 2013. About half of the cuts, USD …

With the country’s Islamic banking still at a low penetration level, experts point out that with the strategic position that Sri Lanka occupies in the region, it should make forays into Islamic capital market to reap full benefits of this industry.   Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal addressing the gathering KPMG’s Global Head of Islamic Finance Neil Miller making …

Much is written on Rizana Nafeek’s extremely unfortunate fate in Saudi Arabia (SA). Some written with anger let loose on the government and some on licensed agencies and every one else who could be dragged in. But to discuss SL migrant labour, one has to leave emotions aside and start off with a factual explanation of what this whole issue …

  The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small ones.    The fiscal cliff is automatic spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the deficit by an insignificant amount over ten years if Congress takes no action itself to cut …