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	<description>Selected Articles, Commentaries and News from all over the world about Islamic Banking</description>
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		<title>Islamic Finance Offers Good Governance To Conventional Banking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Islamic finance, which borrowed features such as products from conventional banks, can now return the favor by lending its set of principles for good governance and responsibility, the Raja Muda of Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah said on Tuesday.
	&#8220;To date, Islamic banks have borrowed from conventional finance in terms of products.But, I think, the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth of  Sukuk market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The global market for sukuk (Sharia-compliant bonds) has grown tremendously in recent years. Total outstanding sukuk rose from $8 billion in 2003 to around $100 billion in 2008. Sukuk provides companies and governments with access to financing and liquidity and offer a much needed Sharia-compliant instrument to investors. While the growth of the fixed income [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/08/11/growth-of-sukuk-market/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Be innovative with Islamic finance products&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MALAYSIA must look at developing other areas of Islamic finance beyond just Islamic bonds, or sukuk, experts said.
	&#8220;Malaysia has all the right ingredients to trailblaze in Islamic finance, but it must go beyond sukuk. We need to develop other new products as well,&#8221; said Ali Abbas Zaidi, Maybank Investment Bank&#8217;s head of Islamic markets.
	Ali was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/be-innovative-with-islamic-finance-products/</link>
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		<title>The SII and Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance (IIBI) sign agreement to promote UK as hub of Islamic finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Securities &#038; Investment Institute (SII) has signed an agreement with the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance (IIBI) to promote the UK as the hub of Islamic finance.
	The London-based IIBI is one of the world&#8217;s leading independent organisations dedicated to the development and implementation of Islamic finance, achieved through education, training, research and publications.
	The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Islamic Economic Forum - A Muslim Davos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This week saw the meeting of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), the equivalent of the Muslim world&#8217;s Davos, held this year in Jakarta. In attendance were heads of states and senior government figures from across the Muslim world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, UAE and Qatar, with delegates from 38 countries.
	The purpose of the WIEF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/07/28/world-islamic-economic-forum-a-muslim-davos/</link>
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		<title>European universities offers courses in Islamic Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With global finance on its knees, this summer&#8217;s business graduates face an even trickier jobs market than most. But there is one area of banking still experiencing boom time – Islamic finance – and universities have been quick to grasp its possibilities.
	This September will see new courses and postgraduate qualifications in Islamic finance springing up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/07/28/european-universities-offers-courses-in-islamic-finance/</link>
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		<title>Banking Regulation Act does not oppose Islamic Banking: Ex-Director, RBI, India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mumbai: “Unless there are amendments in the Banking Regulation Act of India, 1949, Islamic Banking system can be introduced in India,” said Abdul Hasib, former Director, Reserve Bank of India. The Islamic Banking system will be helpful for underprivileged and marginalized people, he said.
	He was addressing a seminar on Global Financial Crisis and Islamic Economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/07/27/banking-regulation-act-does-not-oppose-islamic-banking-ex-director-rbi-india/</link>
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		<title>Buying a Car or Home Without Riba (Interest) - Dr. Jamal Badawi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Economic Challenges of Muslims in America - Lecture  by Dr. Jamal Badawi
	Buying a Car or Home Without Riba (Interest)
	




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		<title>Islamic banks weather global financial turmoil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	LAHORE: Islamic banks have withstood the recent turmoil in the global banking industry triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis because their rules do not allow dealings in products like derivatives, options or papers that caused the meltdown.
	While financial institutions in the developed world lined up for huge state assistance, the few Islamic banking institutions in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/07/26/islamic-banks-weather-global-financial-turmoil/</link>
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		<title>Diploma Course in Islamic Banking offered by The Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (IBSL) has launched the first Diploma Course in Islamic Banking with the assistance of the country’s pioneering institution in Islamic Financial Services, Amana Investments Limited.  The Amana resource pool has facilitated the course by designing the Diploma structure, including its contents, practical knowledge and training. The IBSL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://islamicbanking.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/diploma-course-in-islamic-banking-offered-by-the-institute-of-bankers-of-sri-lanka/</link>
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