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The Mudarabah (Profit Sharing) is a contract, with one party providing 100 percent of the capital and the other party providing its speitt knowledge to invest the capital and manage the investment project. Therefore the use of all conventional derivate instruments is impossible in Islamic banking.[36] In the late 20th century, a number of Islamic banks were created to cater to this particular banking market. In the early years, the products offered were basic and strongly founded on conventional banking products, but in the last few years the industry is starting to see strong development in new products and services. Technically, it is a financing technique adopted by Islamic islamic financing loans banks that takes the form of murabahah muajjal.

The price fixed for the commodity in such a transaction can be the same as the spot price or higher or lower than the spot price. Under this concept, the Bank makes available to the customer the use of service of assets / equipments such as plant, office automation, motor vehicle for a fixed period and price.

There are several other approaches used in business transactions. Since the launch of Islamic equity funds in the early 1990s, there has been the establishment of credible equity benchmarks by Dow Jones Islamic market index (Dow Jones Indexes pioneered Islamic investment indexing in 1999) and the FTSE Global Islamic Index Series.

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