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Islamic Finance, FinTech, and the Road to Sustainability
  • Language: en

Islamic Finance, FinTech, and the Road to Sustainability

The recent unprecedented economic downturn and global supply chain disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the urgency for sustainable financing infrastructure that is agile, adaptable, and transformable. Sustainability and the 4th Industrial Revolution are about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policymakers and people from all income groups and nations, to navigate industry disruptions and transitioning to a new normal by harnessing converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centered future. The edited volume provides critical discussions on reframing the Islamic finance approach to sustainabil...

Islamic Finance and Circular Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Islamic Finance and Circular Economy

This book is the first of its kind to provide a critical overview and theoretical analysis of the Circular Economy from Shariah and Islamic Finance perspectives. The book is divided into three parts. The contributing authors pay close attention to Islamic Finance in light of sustainability and value creation. It also includes case studies on the Circular Economy application in Islamic Finance industry. The book is of interest to academics, students, and practitioners on Islamic Economics and Finance who have an interest in understanding the Circular Economy under the lens of Islamic Finance principles and applications.

Islamic Finance, FinTech, and the Road to Sustainability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Islamic Finance, FinTech, and the Road to Sustainability

The recent unprecedented economic downturn and global supply chain disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the urgency for sustainable financing infrastructure that is agile, adaptable, and transformable. Sustainability and the 4th Industrial Revolution are about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policymakers and people from all income groups and nations, to navigate industry disruptions and transitioning to a new normal by harnessing converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centered future. The edited volume provides critical discussions on reframing the Islamic finance approach to sustainabil...

Waqf Development and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Waqf Development and Innovation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Waqf is one of the most potent socio-economic tools for reducing public sector deficit and breaking the chain of intergenerational poverty. Providing a high-level discussion on waqf development and innovation within the context of modern socio-economic and legal developments, this book examines the importance and potentials of waqf and the issues relating to its legal and regulatory framework. The research delivers future directions for countries that plan to explore this socio-economic institution. Readers and policymakers will be able to replicate successful experiments and learn from some failed initiatives to seek alternative funding platforms to support the fiscal policies of developing...

Islamic Finance in the Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Islamic Finance in the Digital Age

This book investigates the integration of emerging technologies within Islamic finance, reconciling Islamic values with contemporary financial innovations and ensuring ethical integrity in the face of rapid digital transformation. It delves into the challenges and opportunities posed by 21st-century technological advancements, including decentralized finance and AI.

Open Banking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Open Banking

Open banking ends the proprietary control of customer information by banks and allows customers to share their banking financial data with third parties as a matter of right. It can also permit customers to allow others to remove funds directly from their bank accounts in return for goods and services. All of this is done securely with standardised ‘application programming interfaces’ (APIs). Open banking has developed in different ways and with different objectives across the globe. Open Banking: Global Development and Regulation examines the empowering and enabling regulations that facilitate all of this. This book compares a number of different open banking national strategies. These ...

Macroeconomic Theory and Its Failings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Macroeconomic Theory and Its Failings

This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought.

Resource Efficiency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Resource Efficiency

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: UN

Despite enormous progress in the past decades towards improving human prosperity and well-being, this has come at the lasting cost of degradation of the natural environment and depletion of natural resources. Meeting the needs of a growing and increasingly affluent population, will require natural resource extraction to increase from 85 to 186 billion tons by 2050. This can cause irreversible environmental damage and endanger the capacity of Earth to continue to provide resources which are essential for human survival and development. Analysis in the report shows that policies and initiatives to improve resource efficiency and tackle climate change can reduce global resource extraction by up...

Takaful and Islamic Cooperative Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Takaful and Islamic Cooperative Finance

Islamic finance distinguishes itself from conventional finance with its strong emphasis on the moral consequences of financial transactions; prohibiting interest, excessive uncertainty, and finance of harmful business. When it comes to risk mitigation, it is unique in its risk sharing approach.

Pioneers of Financial Economics: Twentieth-century contributions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Pioneers of Financial Economics: Twentieth-century contributions

This volume examines the development of the discipline during the 20th century. Specially commissioned essays discuss scholars of the early part of the century to the Nobel Prize winners of the last decade, including Irving Fisher, Frederick Macauley, Harry Markowitz and Fischer Black.