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29.3.12

Global Islamic finance assets hit $1.3 trillion - study
(Reuters) - Islamic financial assets around the world hit $1.3 trillion in 2011, a 150 percent increase over five years as the industry expands into new country's beyond core markets in the Middle East and Malaysia, a report on Thursday estimated.
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Goldman advisor says completed work on sukuk
(Reuters) - Dar Al Istithmar, the advisor to Goldman Sachs' planned $2 billion sukuk programme, said it had finished obtaining the approval of Islamic scholars for the issue and that the next move was up to Goldman.
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28.3.12

Standard launched for Islamic profit rate swap
(Reuters) - In an effort to help Islamic financial institutions hedge risk, global standard-setting bodies have launched a standard contract template for Islamic profit rate swaps (PRS).
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21.3.12

Arcapita Chapter 11 exception, not rule for Gulf
(Reuters) - Bahraini investment house Arcapita's move to file for bankruptcy protection in the United States, while a milestone for debt restructuring in the Gulf, is unlikely to prompt other regional firms to follow suit.
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15.3.12

Tunisia sets up Islamic finance working group
(Reuters) - The Tunisian government has set up a working group that will study how to develop Islamic finance in the country, a finance ministry official said.
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1.3.12

Insight: "Rock star" scholars a risk for Islamic finance
(Reuters) - Decades of parsing turgid legal documents have not dampened the enthusiasm of octogenarian Islamic scholar Sheikh Hussein Hamed Hassan. He gets agitated as he searches for a paper among piles of documents strewn across his posh Dubai office.
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