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Friday, March 30, 2012

ITALY - First International Conference on Islamic Finance in Italy

www.mediapuzzlenews.net - It is the very first time that in Italy such conference takes place. Islamic Relief Italy together with ASSAIF (“Associazione per lo Sviluppo di Strumenti Alternativi e di Innovazione Finanziaria” - an Association which promotes alternative tools and financial innovation for economic development), Islamic Relief Germany and Islamic Relief International Fundraising have organized a one-day seminar that brought together the mayor players in the field of Islamic ethical finance in order to analyze and study Islamic financial solutions and their application in Occidental economy. (source)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

ITALY - Islam: interest in 'halal' finance growing in Italy

www.ansamed.info - (ANSAmed) - MILAN, MARCH 19 - Islamic finance has existed in Europe for more than forty years, with the United Kingdom one of the world's leading countries in the field, and others, such as Malta and Luxembourg, also at the forefront. In Italy, where the sector is more or less non-existent, results of the first experiments are now beginning to be seen.

In 2009, for instance, Deloitte set up a sector dedicated to Islamic finance. ''At the moment, we are developing products compatible with Italian regulations,'' says Alberto Liotta, a director at the consultancy firm, a guest at a conference organised by Islamic Relief Italia. ''Attention is mainly focussed on conventional financing instruments, such as leasing, the concept of which can be brought closer to those of Islamic finance''.  (source)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

RUSSIA - The Akbars Bank debut Islamic Syndication

by Alberto Brugnoni - ASSAIF - On 17 December 2010, at 4.30 in the morning, I was standing outside my hotel in Kazan in the middle of a snowstorm waiting for Anatoly, my driver, to take me to the airport. I had to board the early flight heading back to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport to catch my connection that would take me back to my much coveted wandering life as an Islamic finance consultant in the Middle East.  (source)