In this day and age we see many Muslims selling their courses on social media. Online learning is a blessing as it enables us to learn new information from various experts from the comfort of our...

A common concern amongst customers of Islamic financial institutions is in regards to the pricing or benchmarking of Shariah compliant products to the prevailing interest rate. In simple terms, if...

You can see quite a few Shariah compliant FinTech companies & startups operating with only a single Shariah Advisor or sometimes none at all. In a lot of cases this might be due to the cost...

In certain jurisdictions, some Shariah Advisory Companies have been affected due to the implementation of Shariah Governance regulations.For example in the UAE, in order to ensure the independence...

Many stakeholders would prefer to see Islamic banks offering more profit & loss sharing products & services. However, this is very difficult due to the way banks are regulated and what they...

If you apply for finance at an Islamic Financial Institution (IFI), you will usually be asked to sign a unilateral promise/undertaking to purchase the particular asset from the IFI once they have...

A fact of life is that sometimes people need cash for certain expenses and in this day and age it is not always easy to get an interest-free loan from relatives or friends especially if the amount...

Due to Shariah Governance regulations and the subsequent restrictions on the number of Shariah Committee memberships, many of the Senior Shariah Scholars of the Islamic finance industry have had to...

Shariah Committee members are renumerated for the time and expertise that they give to the financial institutions that they are a part of. Such renumeration should not be linked to the approval of...

While previously the regulators took a more loose approach to Shariah Governance in some of the Gulf countries, in recent years there has been implementation of comprehensive Shariah Governance...