PORTUGAL - 1st Portuguese Islamic Finance Conference & Workshop - July 6th 2012 – Lisbon

Celebrating 100 years of tradition and excellence in serving its members by crossing a new frontier and offering insight into the growing industry of Islamic finance, the British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, together with its partner Asian Cooperation Enterprise, is privileged to host the first Portuguese Islamic finance workshop in Lisbon.

Attended by high profile personalities in both conventional and Islamic banking, it is set to become a reference point for the cooperation between the two financial worlds. Dignified by esteemed Sharia specialists, from the world's most prominent and successful Islamic finance institutions, it is aimed at both educating the high level conventional bankers with regard to Islamic finance and facilitating networking between powerful entities in Portugal, the Gulf Cooperation Council and South East Asia. (source)

GERMANY - CIMB Principal : Malaysians to bring Islamic banking to Germany

www.dw.de - Islamic investing represents a 1.2 trillion euro market. Now one Malaysian firm wants to bring the trend to Germany. Others have tried and failed before, so it could be a struggle.

Confident and professional, the female chief executive of Malaysia-based CIMB-Principal recently gave a press conference in Frankfurt about the only registered Islamic investment fund in Germany.
With uncovered hair, red lipstick and silver earrings, Noripah Kamso said, "I want to share the new i-word with you. It doesn't stand for iPad, iPhone or inflation–but for Islamic banking."  (source)

GERMANY - KL’s edge in Islamic finance - Bundesbank send representatives to Malaysia's Securities Commission for training on Islamic finance

thestaronline - German don: Malaysia’s comprehensive regulatory framework a competitive advantage

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's competitive advantage in Islamic finance is its comprehensive regulatory framework, according to a German economics professor. (source)

FRANCE - INCEIF signs MoU with RMS

The International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance's (INCEIF) recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing with France's Reims Management School (RMS), its second such deal in the institute's five-year history, is an indication that non-traditional markets are opening up to Islamic finance.

"In France alone there is a sizeable Muslim population, larger than that of the UK, so the market is already there," said INCEIF president andchief executive officer DatukAgil Natt. (full story)

LUXEMBOURG - EVENTS - Seminar "Global Product and Capital Market Trends in Islamic Finance" - Jan 20, 2011

The Luxembourg School of Finance is pleased to announce a half-day Seminar in Islamic Finance entitled:

Global Product and Capital Market Trends in Islamic Finance

To be held on January 20th, 2011 from 10:30am to 3:30pm at the Chambre of Commerce, 7 Rue Alcide de Gasperi, Luxembourg - Kirchberg.

LUXEMBOURG - LSF hosts Islamic Finance Course in January 2011

The Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF) of the University of Luxembourg, is pleased to announce an eight-day Executive Course in Islamic Finance in Luxembourg in collaboration with the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), to be held from 10 to 19 January 2011.  The Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF) of the University of Luxembourg, is pleased to announce an eight-day Executive Course in Islamic Finance in Luxembourg in collaboration with the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), to be held from 10 to 19 January 2011.

FRANCE - LUXEMBOURG - INCEIF (Malaysia) on track to become global university in Islamic finance

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- The International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) is on track to become a truly global university in Islamic finance going forward.

Its President and Chief Executive Officer Agil Natt said the university would be collaborating with the University of Luxembourg, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Reims Management School in France next year for Islamic finance education.