Banking
Innovators Q+A | Islamic Banking’s Pawn Shop
Mohamed Azmeer, CEO of Amãna Bank, describes how Islamic principles require creativity to design products that meet customer needs.
News & Features Archive
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News
Innovators Q+A | Singapore Blockchain Beta Shows Promise
Lum Yin Fong, global head of client management and implementation in Global Transaction Services at DBS Bank, talks about how her firm, in conjunction with Standard Chartered Bank and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, explored blockchain technology in trade finance.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Treasury Transformation At Etihad Airways
Adam Boukadida, deputy treasurer for Etihad Airways, talks treasury transformation vision, goals and strategy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Volvo’s Treasury Upgrade
Elisabeth Mosseen, group treasurer, and Eva Christianson, head of risk analysis and control at group treasury, both at Volvo Car Group, chart their treasury’s transformation from a division of Ford to a stand-alone outfit.
Awards
Islamic Finance Awards 2016 | Table Of Contents
Still finding its way onto the broader global stage, Islamic finance is expanding its reach and rising to new heights in delivering added value to consumer and business markets alike.
Banking
Islamic Finance Is Gaining Ground—And Sophistication
Still finding its way onto the broader global stage, Islamic finance is expanding its reach and rising to new heights in delivering added value to consumer and business markets alike.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Market Braces For $2 Trillion In EM Debt
<strong>Trends | Emerging Markets</strong><br />
Emerging markets sovereigns and corporates will need to refinance up to $2 trillion of debt coming due in the next five years, as a result of extravagant borrowing earlier this decade when commodity prices were soaring and cheap financing was readily available.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Multinationals Need A Culture Shock
<strong>Management | Corporate Culture</strong><br />
Several recent financial and corruption scandals have forced multinationals to develop comprehensive corporate conduct and compliance programs.
News
Philippine President Sparks Market Jitters
<strong>Philippines</strong><br />
Investor unease over the future of the Philippines, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies, has soared following Rodrigo Duterte’s landslide victory in the May presidential election.
Award Winners
Q+A: Dato’ Muzaffar Hisham; CEO of Maybank Group Islamic Banking
Maybank Islamic is developing outside Malaysia, establishing a footprint in the region. With a return on equity of 16%, achieved despite a capital ratio of 17%, the trick will be to sustain the bank’s bullish approach to investing despite the country’s economic downturn.
Award Winners
Q+A: Hussain Al Qemzi; CEO, Noor Bank
Noor Bank focuses on select business segments and eyes the digital payment space that will offer some of the best opportunities over the next couple of years.
Award Winners
Q+A: Majed Al-Saif; General Manager, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs, Samba Financial Group
Retail demand for Islamic finance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider region keeps increasing. Growth areas include structured hedging and investment products, project and aviation finance, equity-linked and greenfield project sukuk.