Best Islamic Financial Institutions Awards

Islamic finance continues to maintain robust growth, with assets surpassing $2 trillion worldwide and projections indicating a rise to $3 trillion in the next decade.

Global Finance’s World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions Awards honor firms that drive the expansion of the sector by offering innovative, Shariah-compliant financial solutions. Winning organizations successfully meet their customers’ needs with modern and efficient delivery channels, while creating the foundation for continued growth and safety in the future.

Honorees are featured in the May print and digital editions, as well as online at GFMag.com, and honored at Global Finance’s World’s Best Bank Awards Ceremony, held during the IMF/World Bank Annual meetings, which will be in Bangkok for 2026.

All selections are made by the editorial team of Global Finance after extensive consultations with bankers, corporate finance executives and analysts throughout the world. The editors also use entries submitted by financial services providers. In selecting these top firms, factors that range from the quantitative objective to the informed subjective are considered. Quantitative criteria include growth in assets, profitability, geographic reach, strategic relationships, new business development and innovation in products. Among the subjective criteria considered are reputation, customer satisfaction, and the opinions of analysts and others involved in the industry.

The mix of these factors yields leading banks that may not be the largest, oldest or the most diversified in a given country, region or product, but rather the best—the firms with which customers around the world would most likely want to do business.