A NEW SHARIAH-COMPLIANT bank, the European Islamic Investment Bank, incorporated in London in January 2005, hopes to receive a licence from the UK’s Financial Services Authority by the end of this month. It is on course to begin its first phase of operations in the second quarter of the year.
As the first independent Islamic investment bank in Europe to be established and managed on a wholly Shariah-compliant basis, the EIIB has been viewed with a mixture of surprise and interest in the Gulf region, where, according to its managing director, John Weguelin, there is a great deal of appetite for doing business with a London-domiciled institution of this type.
The bank’s founding shareholders comprise Gulf-based individuals and institutions, including several Islamic banks, as well as individuals and companies in Europe.
Subject to FSA authorization and consent, the bank plans to increase its capitalization from an initial £110...
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