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Islamic Finance Today, the exclusive  Islamic Banking and Finance Magazine  has released its latest February 2015 issue.  The magazine which is now available for free downloading as a trial offer for three months  delivers  a  mix  of  exclusive  articles  by  the  leading  scholars  in  the  field, interviews with prominent personalities, industry trends, news, views and events. This  month’s  issue  features …

London, (IINA) – London is bidding to become a leading centre for sharia-compliant finance, according to the UK's foreign minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood. Speaking at The Telegraph's Middle East Congress on Wednesday, Ellwood, undersecretary of state at the Foreign Office, said the capital had ambitions to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as a global hub for …

A number of tourist companies offer programs and websites to familiarize tourist locations where halal products are available. They are meant to help Muslim families, who are averse to pork and alcohol while traveling in different parts of the world, without compromising their religious beliefs and requirements. Officials of travel and tourism companies that promote halal tourism say they have …

ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION: More than 1.5 million tourists visited Sri Lanka in 2014. JEDDAH: FADIA JIFFRY Sri Lanka’s tourism industry has just experienced its best ever year, recording over 1.5 million tourist arrivals in 2014, according to government data. With numbers continuing to set records for 68 straight months in December 2014, totaling a 1,527,153 tourists, the island saw a 19.8 …

Islamic Finance Today, the exclusive Islamic Banking and Finance Magazine has commenced publication as a monthly in digital format from January 2015. IFT was published both as a monthly and quarterly from 2006 to 2010 in print form and enjoyed much popularity in the industry at its height. So much so that a research report titled Islamic Finance and Economics …