Innovative Funding for Humanitarian Impact in Africa CEO for the Amanie Global Office, Maya Marissa Malek has been invited to join a panel of speakers at an upcoming Chatham House event to discuss Innovative Funding for Humanitarian Impact in Africa. The speakers will assess the challenges for sustainable financing in the humanitarian sector and prospects …
GCC to play a key role in 2020 sukuk issuance “Global sukuk issuance in 2020 is expected to surge further on the back of strong growth in 2019 supported by continued demand for issuance from GCC countries and core Islamic finance markets, according to rating agency Standard & Poor’s. “Although global financial conditions should remain …
“Planet, people and prosperity ― or the Three Ps ― are the new frontier of Islamic finance in bringing greater value to the economy, society and the environment, says the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah. While in many tangible ways Islamic finance industry has already helped to generate more socially conscious and sustainable economic …
Sukuk-Focused Amana Participation Fund Attracts $100 Million in Assets “Saturna Capital Corporation (Saturna), adviser to the Amana Mutual Funds, announced that the Amana Participation Fund (AMAPX, AMIPX), which invests primarily in income-producing securities called sukuk, has surpassed a milestone $100 million in assets. To ensure the Amana Funds’ investments meet the requirements of the Islamic …
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Renowned Malaysian shariah scholar Datuk Dr Mohd Daud Bakar started a shariah consultancy in 2005, just before the surge in demand for such services. He travelled the world, setting up offices (sometimes too early for a particular market, so he had to close them), meeting people and making contacts. His company, Amanie Advisors Sdn Bhd, …
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Islam is one of the most followed religion in the world. As a comprehensive religion, Islamic finance is part of the system. With its strong religious and spiritual principles, the religion, Islam guides the followers, or the muslims to live a life according to Allah, their one and only God. There are five basic pillars …
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Amanie Advisors has collaborated with Ethereum Foundation to conduct a research on Ether as a cryptocurrency and the Ethereum platform in the attempt to provide Shariah views and opinions on these topics. The main objective of the paper is to outline the Shariah parameters of Ether, the cryptocurrency of Ethereum platform based on the extensive …
What do we know about SRI Sukuk? The SRI Sukuk, or the Sustainable and Responsible Investment Sukuk, is another investing platform which the call for the Sukuk proceed is to be used for the preservation and protection of society. The SRI Sukuk opens a new era for the Islamic Finance and complements the arising of …
In this world, we have two options, basically. We could be very much of big picture mentality or we could be very much focused on small, small things; technical aspect of things. We can be very technical, we can be very literalist, or we can be a bit above the board to see the issues …
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