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An Exclusive Interview with Nouman Ali Khan
This exclusive interview with Nouman Ali Khan, a prominent Islamic speaker, author, and instructor, was …
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Does Contemporary Islamic Finance Align with Islamic Principles?
Islam’s economic system is not just about avoiding sin, but about building a just civilization—a vision that goes beyond mimicking conventional …
Saudi Arabia Poised to Become a Global Leader in Islamic Finance
Saudi Arabia has long occupied a central position in the global Islamic economy. What is changing now is not its importance, but the clarity of its …
Islamic Banking Takes A Leading Role In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s banking system has long been influential in the Gulf. What is changing now is the nature of that influence. Islamic banking is no …
Doubling of Islamic Finance Assets Set to Boost SME Growth
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the missing link in Islamic finance’s growth story.As Shariah-compliant assets head towards a doubling …
How Wahed Is Making Halal Investing Accessible to American Muslims
For many American Muslims, the hardest part of “getting started” with investing isn’t picking a stock. It’s finding a way to participate in the modern …
Top 10 Islamic Capital Markets in 2025: Shaping the Muslim World’s Wealth
By any conventional reading of global finance, capital markets in the Muslim world were long treated as peripheral: important domestically, cyclical …
Mapping the Muslim World’s Capital Markets: Scale, Sectors, and Trading Behavior
The Muslim world today represents an emerging but under‑appreciated network of capital markets.
Out of 56 Muslim‑majority countries, around 38 operate …
Indonesia Looks to Islamic Finance to Help Build Its Next Wave of Infrastructure
Indonesia’s infrastructure agenda is vast—and increasingly complex to finance amid tighter global liquidity, higher borrowing costs, and growing …
Pakistan Using Islamic Finance For Infrastructure Deals
Pakistan’s infrastructure financing is undergoing a quiet but meaningful shift, as Shariah-compliant funding moves from the margins toward the centre …
Islamic Financial Institutions Need to Provide Training to Strengthen the SME Sector
For decades, Islamic finance has presented itself as a system built for the real economy—one that rewards entrepreneurship, shares risk, and anchors …
How to Digitize Islamic Banking in Pakistan
Islamic banking in Pakistan is growing — but not fast enough to keep pace with how Pakistanis now live, pay and do business. Mobile wallets move money …
Islamic Banking Gains Ground in Oman’s Financial System
Islamic banking is steadily strengthening its position in Oman, moving from a specialist offering into a core component of the country’s financial …
Dubai Emerges as a Global Hub for Islamic Banking
Dubai has spent the past decade doing something rare in finance: taking a values-based system built for a specific community and turning it into …
Why Islamic Finance Is Poised for a Strong 2026
In a year marked by geopolitical strain, persistently high interest rates, and growing unease about the social consequences of global finance, Islamic …
Philippines Moves to Regulate Its Growing Islamic Banking Sector
When lawmakers in the Philippines began drafting rules for Islamic banking more than a decade ago, the ambition was modest: provide basic financial …
Morocco’s Islamic Banking Awakening
On a Friday afternoon in Casablanca, the scene at a bank branch can look almost stubbornly familiar—forms, counters, the hum of queue numbers. And …
Raja Azmi Urges a Culture of Financial Excellence at World Quran Convention
Economic discussions in Muslim-majority economies frequently orbit around institutional redesign — new regulatory bodies, Islamic finance innovations, …
Crypto Faces Its Most Uncertain Moment Yet
The mood surrounding cryptocurrency has shifted noticeably over the past year. Once promoted as the next great upheaval in global finance, the …
Revitalized Islamic Banking to Boost Financial Inclusion
Islamic banking is once again entering a period of accelerated reinvention. After years of modest growth, the sector is now being propelled by digital …
Pakistani Banks To Reach Out To Unbanked Masses
As Pakistan steps into 2026, the country faces a pivotal moment of economic, social, and technological transformation. After years of macroeconomic …
What is the Future of Digital Banking in the UAE?
The United Arab Emirates is engaged in one of the most ambitious financial engineering projects of the 21st century. Its digital banking revolution is …
Are Big Tech Companies Destroying Bank Brands?
When the first Apple Card launched in the United States in 2019, many analysts dismissed it as a symbolic partnership—a Silicon Valley status card …
Can We Use Islamic Fintech To Support SMEs?
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly turning to Islamic fintech—not just as a niche idea, but as a practical, real‑world financing …