This note was originally published on Practical Law. It looks at how Islamic finance is adopting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards to produce hybrid Sharia-compliant ESG products. In particular it sets out...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - On 26 April 2021, draft Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations (Regulations) were brought before the UK Parliament for approval. They will introduce a new special administration...more
This article considers the recent European Banking Authority Shadow Banking Guidelines (the “Guidelines”), seeks a definition of shadow banking and discusses some of the potential consequences of the Guidelines for...more
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is currently taking action, at both the local and international levels, to distinguish the country in the global Islamic finance markets.
Originally published in the...more
The United Kingdom Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser in its 2015 FinTech Report considered “FinTech” as the integration of “finance and technology in ways that will disrupt traditional financial models and businesses and...more