| 3/17/2010 | Malaysia eyes long term sukuk, boost for takaful firms [themalaysianinsider.com] KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Malaysia may sell longer dated government sukuk to help alleviate a shortage of investments for takaful firms, an Islamic insurer said, which would help address a barrier to the industry’s growth. |
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| 3/17/2010 | GFH signs MoU with Syrian Investment Authority [arabianbusiness.com] Gulf Finance House announced on Tuesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Syrian Investment Authority (SIA) on behalf of Syria Finance House (SFH), to develop an economic zone, power projects and phosphate mines. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Fleming Gulf’s Asia Islamic Banking Conference [i-newswire.com] Building on the success of our first annual World Islamic Retail Banking Conference in Dubai, Fleming Gulf is proud to announce the launch of Asia Islamic Banking Conference, 5-7 July 2010 at Kuala Lumpur |
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| 3/17/2010 | Training course on Islamic banking [gulf-times.com] The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), is launching the second series of its executive training courses for 2009-10. |
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| 3/17/2010 | GFH signs Syria accord [gulf-daily-news.com] MANAMA: Gulf Finance House (GFH) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Syrian Investment Authority (SIA) to develop an economic zone, power projects and phosphate mines. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Challenging environment - CI affirms Yemen-based Tadhamon International Islamic Bank at B [globalarabnetwork.com] Capital Intelligence (CI), the international credit rating agency, today announced that it has affirmed the Foreign Currency ratings of Yemen's Tadhamon International Islamic Bank (TIIB) at B (Long-term) and B (Short-term) |
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| 3/17/2010 | Shariah Council on Islamic economy is to be set up in Tatarstan [zawya.com] Islamic-Finance.ru a meeting of Muslim initiative group on establishing Shariah and Expert Councils took place in Kazan. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Islamic Banking Has Proven Success [zawya.com] Damascus - Governor of Central Bank of Syria (CBS) Adib Mayala has urged more efforts to adopt a unified Islamic reference to avoid division and jurisprudential debate in Islamic banking. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Maples and Calder win Islamic Finance Awards [caymannetnews.com] The Dubai office of local law firm, Maples and Calder, has received three awards in the Islamic Finance News Awards 2009. |
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| 3/17/2010 | UAE's Waha Capital eyes two buys in 2010 [arabnews.com] DUBAI: Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital is in talks to buy controlling stakes in global aviation and maritime firms, and expects to conclude up to two deals in 2010, its chief executive said in an interview. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Indonesia targets global sukuk for Sept - official [iii.co.uk] JAKARTA, March 17 (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to issue a global sukuk in September this year, Rahmat Waluyanto, the head of the country's debt office, said on Wednesday. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Sakana develops human capital [ameinfo.com] Sakana Holistic Housing Solutions, the innovative Islamic mortgage finance provider, announced that four of its Bahraini employees were recently promoted to next grade. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Keynote plenary session at World Takaful Conference looks into new growth paradigms for Takaful [ameinfo.com] The opening keynote plenary session of the 5th Annual World Takaful Conference (WTC 2010) features a high-profile faculty of international industry leaders who will revisit Takaful growth horizons. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Al Islami Foods participates in region's first Dubai Islamic Peace Convention [albawaba.com] Al Islami Foods, the leading halal food company in the Middle East, has announced its participation in the region's first international Islamic exhibition, which will be held in Dubai from 18th-20th March 2010. |
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| 3/17/2010 | Contest Promotes Brunei Halal Brand [brudirect.com] Bandar Seri Begawan - The promotion of Brunei Halal Brand received an overwhelming response yesterday following the launching of the 'Cooking from the Heart' competition |
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| 3/16/2010 | Furious factory owner locks in Jakim officers [themalaysianinsider.com] Enraged by the appearance of enforcement officers at a factory for slaughtering and processing chickens, a man believed to be the factory owner, suddenly locked in the officers at the premises in the Pedas Halal Park, here, today. |
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| 3/16/2010 | Manila Hotel is 1st ever Pinoy hotel to get halal certified [goodnewspilipinas.com] The historical landmark Manila Hotel made history yet again as it became the first hotel to receive the “halal” compliance certificate from the National Commission on Muslim Filipino. |
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| 3/16/2010 | NO DISCRIMINATION IN HALAL CERTIFICATION: JAMIL KHIR [Yahoo!] KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 (Bernama) -- The Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has set standards that had to be met to get the halal certificate and this applied to all applicants without discrimination. |
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| 3/16/2010 | CHANGES IN ACT TO STRENGTHEN SHARIAH ADVISORY COUNCIL [Yahoo!] KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 (Bernama) -- The changes that were made to the Capital Market Services Act, which is expected to come into force next month will strengthen the SC's Shariah Advisory Council (SAC) further. |
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| 3/16/2010 | UPDATE 1-Saudi lender Samba talking to banks about bond -IFR [Reuters] RIYADH, March 16 (Reuters) - Saudi bank Samba Financial Group (1090.SE) is talking to several banks about a dollar-denominated international bond issue, IFR, a unit of Thomson Reuters reported. |
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