"We’re aiming for 50 meetings in five days," says Dato’ Mohd Razif Abd Kadir, deputy governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, and although he claims to be exhausted he shows no signs of it.
He’s in Tokyo as part of a Malaysian delegation promoting with evangelical zeal the developing Islamic finance market, and his country’s own role in fostering it. Demand from investors is high, say Kadir and his colleagues from Negara, the Malaysian central bank, but the volume and the diversity of instruments issued need to grow and it is to that end that they have set off on a...
