Another Islamic cryptocurrency exchange joins the exclusive circle of fully licensed and operating digital assets exchanges globally, adding another feather to Bahrain’s Islamic fintech...
Local Shariah compliant fintech start-up Tamara, which specializes in buy-now-pay-later e-commerce solutions, has closed the largest seed-funding round in Saudi Arabia amid the Kingdom's...
Following months of consultation and groundwork, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has finally reviewed and approved regulations for electronic wallets in a bid...
Singapore-headquartered Algorand and Kuala Lumpur-based IBF Net will be joining forces to engineer and launch to market a range of blockchain-based solutions including social...
The Indonesian financial regulator is preparing to engineer a holistic Islamic financial product ecosystem which includes digitizing Shariah instruments and rolling out new supporting...
The Central Bank of Saudi Arabia (SAMA) has finalized regulations for debt crowdfunding activities following a six-month market consultation period initiated in July 2020,...
Indonesia may be grappling with the economic fallout of a ferocious pandemic, but for some, the unforgiving operating climate has been an opportunity to...
City Bank, in partnership with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), has executed a Shariah compliant cross-border letter of credit (LC) transaction, becoming...
The UK’s first regulated Islamic crowdfunding platform has overhauled its management lineup with its founding CEO stepping down after five and a half years...
Starting 2021 on a productive note, the Indonesian Financial Services Authority, Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), has officially introduced securities crowdfunding to the Republic as...
Joining its regional peers, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has finally entered the challenger banking race with its long-awaited digital banking regulations.
The new licensing framework,...
Commodity Murabahah business from traditional Islamic financial institutions may have taken a hit due to the pandemic, but for broker Eiger Trading Advisors, this...