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OR250 million ($650 million) sukuk
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£132 million ($187 million) secured Islamic facility
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M$100 million ($18.2 million) sustainable and responsible investment sukuk (Ihsan)
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UK Export Finance $913 million sukuk (Khadrawy)
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$100 million Islamic structured club facility
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Euromoney highlights six of the strongest key innovations in Islamic finance from the last 12 months.
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Submission deadline Thursday 10th March 2016
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With expanding economies and hundreds of million Muslims, Africa deserves to be a bigger part of Islamic finance. After a slow start, there are signs the sector is beginning to gain the crucial mass and legislative backing it needs.
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The growth and globalization of Islamic finance over the past decade has been a rare success story for the financial industry. Here, Euromoney examines the challenges the sector faces to rise to the next level. Throughout the section, we highlight the banks, advisers, issuers and companies that are moving the industry forward, in Euromoney’s inaugural Innovation in Islamic finance awards.
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As liquidity improves and conventional buyers become more familiar with it, the premium for issuing in an Islamic format is shrinking. Emerging market issuers may still hold the most promise for the future
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International banks used to dominate Islamic finance. But their desire to innovate risked the market straying from its principles. Local and specialist firms have benefited from their withdrawal. But can they take Shariah-compliant finance to the next level without repeating the mistakes of the past?
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Best Islamic local-currency deal of the year:
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Islamic finance deal of the year:
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Most innovative Islamic deal:
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Best Islamic project finance deal:
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Mohamed Ali Elgari is one of the select handful of Shariah scholars without whom the Islamic finance industry could not exist. Shariah panels stamp products as being compliant with Islamic law; they carry the trust of Muslims that they are investing in a way consistent with their faith. Such is the diversity of their required skills – encyclopaedic knowledge of Islamic law, deep understanding of international business, fluency in English and Arabic at the very least – that there are few such scholars trusted by the world’s main Islamic institutions to serve on their Shariah boards. Ten years ago, there were only about five of them in the world; the picture has improved since, but not that much. Elgari is very much among that elite.
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