Middle East and North Africa

Middle East and North Africa

WIBC Announces Landmark 26th Edition in Strategic Partnership with the Central...

Held under the patronage of HRH Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the strategic partnership...

Boubyan Bank Unites With Zain Telecom To Launch Digital Islamic Bank

Kuwait’s Boubyan Bank and Zain Telecom are joining forces to create one of the Middle East’s first purely digital Islamic banks. The news broke...

Islamic Financing to Grow on Back of Airlines’ Appetite to Refinance...

Middle East airlines seeking to refinance debt or diversify their funding sources will fuel a surge in Islamic financing in the near to medium...

Emaar Lists $500 Million Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai

Emaar Properties has listed its $500 million 10-year Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai, the Islamic bond has an annual return rate of 3.88 per cent...

FT: Islamic Fintech Pioneers Test Creative Ways to Engage Consumers

In 2015, Junaid Wahedna stepped out of a taxi in New York, bewildered by the conversation he had just had with the driver. The...

Middle East ‘Wide Awake to Climate Change’ and Green Finance

The 2019 Sustainable Financing and Investing Survey, published by HSBC, found that 56% of issuers in the region are already being affected by global...