The latest issue of Islamic Finance Today for January- March 2010 has just been released. The contents of this issue include Perceptions of Islamic Finance by Roshan Madawela, Tale of Two Charities by Mansoor Durrani, Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Issues by Rayan Muhammed, Islamic Rate of Return by Joseph Di Vanna, The Role of the Regulator by Suresh Perera, …
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Derivatives -An Islamic Finance Perspective, By Beata M. Paxford
© Islamic Finance Today BEATA PAXFORD is a lawyer and a Ph.d. candidate in banking law. Beata is currently writing her dissertation on Islamic banking at the Warsaw University in Poland. Her main areas of specialisation include corporate and banking law. She is an Islamic banking advocate in Poland and hopes to popularise Islamic based financing in the CEE countries. …
Read More »CSE Shariah Screen Report, By Guardian Investment House (GIH)
About GIH: Guardian Investment House (Pvt.) Limited or GIH is a boutique Islamic investment management and advisory company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The company specializes in structuring and managing shariah complaint traditional and alternative investments on a fiduciary basis for individuals and corporate ; as well as engage in financial advisory activities for corporations, governments and/or government related entities …
Read More »Why They Should be Indicted The Case Against Bernanke and Greenspan, By MIKE WHITNEY
Is there enough evidence to indict Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan on charges that they aided and abetted the banks and other financial institutions in the sale of fraudulent loans to investors? That depends on whether there is sufficient proof to show whether the two men KNEW that the nation’s lenders were engaged in large-scale predatory lending and chose to …
Read More »Armageddon, By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
If you thought Wall Street’s debt crisis was traumatic, wait till you the see the consequences of Washington’s debt crisis! Never before in history has a world power like the U.S. been so utterly buried in debt! And never before has that debt been financed so massively by foreign investors! Nineteenth century Mexico, Spain, and Argentina accumulated so much debt, …
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