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Malaysian Takaful Association
TheCityUK
INCEIF
BAB
International Federation of Takaful & Islamic Insurance Companies
ICMIF
GIIBIC
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Malaysian Takaful Association
About
The Takaful industry in Malaysia started to gain momentum when, in October 1982, the Malaysian government formed a special task force to explore the viability of setting up an Islamic insurance company. Out of that study and based on its recommendations, the Takaful Act 1984 was gazetted and came into force thereafter. At first glance, there does not appear to be much difference between conventional insurance and Takaful. Indeed, in terms of concept, there is none as both subscribes to the long established principle the "pool of the many to help the unfortunate few". MTA is dedicated in promoting the interest of its members and to supervise the exercise of self-regulation within the Takaful industry. The MTA Road Map introduced in 2006 set the direction and focus of the association. A four-pronged strategy was laid out with the objective of achieving a twenty percent share in the overall insurance industry by 2010. The focus, among others, is on branding, awareness and communication, shared services through leveraging of technology, investment opportunities and relations with regulators. These strategies are deemed achievable and close co-operation among members to make it work was the key to its success. -
TheCityUK
TheCityUK represents the UK-based financial and related professional services industry. We lobby on its behalf, producing evidence of its importance to the wider national economy. At home in the UK, in the EU and internationally, we seek to influence policy to drive competitiveness, creating jobs and lasting economic growth. Our board, chaired by Sir Gerry Grimstone, Chairman, Standard Life, is responsible for developing our strategy and delivery. Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, oversees our Advisory Council. The President of the Advisory Council is the Lord Mayor. We are independent and politically neutral. -
INCEIF
INCEIF was set up in 2005 by Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia). It is one of many initiatives undertaken by Malaysia to develop and nurture talents and experts under the MIFC (Malaysia International Islamic Finance Centre). The Chairman and Chancellor of INCEIF is the Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz. INCEIF is governed by a Governing Council which is chaired by a Director and comprises representatives from the financial industry, regulators and members of international repute. The Senate, i.e. the Professional Development Panel is also chaired by a Director and comprises of CEOs from Islamic banks and Takaful companies, regulators and representatives from the financial industry. INCEIF offers four postgraduate programmes in Islamic finance, namely Masters in Islamic Finance Practice, Chartered Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP), Masters in Islamic Finance and PhD in Islamic Finance. To complement its mission to produce world-class talent for the global Islamic finance industry, INCEIF, as a knowledge leader in Islamic finance, offers industry-focussed executive education that includes customised executive programmes. INCEIF’s research unit carries out academic and commercial research which provides trend analysis, economic growth indicators and specific cross border business strategy.
Tackling the Misconceptions Around Islamic Finance
INCEIF's President and CEO, Daud vicary Abdullah, tackles the common misconceptions about Islamic finance, and discusses its role and potential in the global financial landscape.
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BAB
Our Mission
The Bahrain Association of Banks represents and advocates the interests of all the various licensed financial institutions in Bahrain and works closely with the Central Bank of Bahrain and other government authorities at the highest levels on issues of banking policy and regulation, as well as actively promoting Bahrain as an international financial centre.
Our Objectives
The Association works on behalf of its members in many ways with the following objectives:- To represent and advocate the interests of the banking community in Bahrain nationally and internationally.
- To promote Bahrain as an international finance centre of excellence overseas.
- To work closely at the highest levels of government on banking policy and regulation affecting the banking and finance sector, in particular in cooperation with the Central Bank of Bahrain.
- To assist in developing plans, proposals and strategies for the advancement of Bahrain's banking sector.
- To provide a forum for member banks to meet and hold open discussions, through regular meetings, hosting of overseas delegations, creation of task forces, conferences, seminars and other professional gatherings.
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International Federation of Takaful & Islamic Insurance Companies
The International Federation of Takaful and Islamic Insurance Companies (IFTI) is helping to explore opportunities for Takaful in Africa and supporting the region's operators. -
ICMIF
ICMIF aims to promote and work with the cooperative and mutual insurance sector globally by providing valuable, cutting-edge information and services to members and by representing the interests of the global cooperative and mutual insurance sector.
Icmif Publications - click here -
GIIBIC
Supporting Association
Global Institute of Islamic Banking, Insurance and Consultancy (GIIBIC) is incorporated under the Laws of Ghana and having its main office in Accra with affiliates companies and strategic partners both locally and internationally. It is the aim of GIIBIC to provide Islamic banking, and finance education, training, and consultant service in Ghana, its region with global reach. GIIBIC aim is to create a provide the engine for stakeholders of the financial industry in Ghana to understand the opportunities of the growing Islamic finance industry globally and to help the Ghana adopt and develop Islamic finance which will in turn contribute to Ghana’s socio-economical growth. GIIBIC is founded to play a pivotal role in creating awareness on different aspects of Islamic finance that form the basis of a moral economy and helping in the exchange of information within the financial sector. GIIBIC’s portfolio include organizing, and promoting, for the public benefit programs of education, training, research, publications and consultant services in moral and ethical Islamic finance industry. In addition to providing consultant service to the central bank of Ghana to review its existing law to include Islamic finance, GIIBIC also provide Islamic Micro Finance services to help alleviate poverty in the poor communities of Ghana, and with a plan of establishing an Islamic bank in Ghana shortly, when the banking law is reviewed.
……… MEDIA PARTNERS ………
Islamic Banking Magazine
IFN
AL MORAKEB AL INMAI
Al Bayan
Asia Insurance Review
Middle East Insurance Review
IIBI
Global Horizon
AlHuda Center of Islamic Banking & Islamic Economics
True Banking
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Islamic Banking Magazine
Published in Arabic and English language and specializing in up-to-date news, articles, reports, and studies, in Islamic banking, ICMs, Fiqh Moamalat (Islamic Commercial Law), and Islamic economics in general, the magazine is published by the Arab Islamic Center for Economical Research and Studies website "AICERS.ORG", which is a center specializing in research, studies, reports and consulting services in multiple areas of the economy in the Arab and Muslim worlds; areas such as: conventional and Islamic banking, regular and Islamic Capital markets, traditional and Electronic Commerce, and others.
"IslamicBankingMagazine.com", aims to provide an appropriate structure for the delivery of information related to the Islamic economy and banking in order to provide Practical and informative support to all institutions working in those fields and their employees, in particular, or who wish to familiarized themselves with this new and evolving industry, and take advantage of all those whom are interested in economics and Islamic banking.
All this is aimed towards providing knowledge support which is necessary to improve the industry of Islamic banking in particular and the economies of Arab and Islamic countries in general, and apply in practice the slogan of our Magazine (supporting the Islamic banking and finance industry and the principles behind it).
English website: www.islamicbankingmagazine.com Arabic website: www.islamicbankingmagazine.org -
IFN
Islamic Finance news is the industry's leading financial markets focused, e-newsletter bringing you unrivalled editorial coverage of the global Islamic financing market. Available every Wednesday, each issue features the latest news, reports, interviews, data and much more.
Authored by the Islamic finance industry’s largest in-house editorial team, IFN provides you with everything you need to know about this business. Exclusivity is the key to our success - we don’t provide content to third party online media portals, nor do we accept second hand content.
Our daily news service is available at 06:00 GMT. Supplements and reports on each of the industry’s markets and key sectors are published every month.
The website includes over 25,000 exclusive industry reports in addition to the industry’s largest interactive terminology glossary and a directory of over 1,200 Islamic financial institutions (with contact details). IFN is also available on all iPad, iPhone and Android operating systems through a dedicated IFN application.
For a trial subscription, please contact Musfaizal Mustafa at +603 2162 7804 or email musfaizal.mustafa@redmoneygroup.com -
AL MORAKEB AL INMAI
Launch
At the beginning of the 90’s, a group of businessman and journalists decided to launch a business magazine, in parallel to the reconstruction process that was taking place all over the country. The magazine would cover various parts in different sectors of production and services. And so was born AL MORAKEB AL INMAI.
On October the 6th, 1991, the issue number 1 was released, and since that date this monthly publication continues to be regular.
Nowadays the economy has become the center of the daily life. It’s no more exclusive for a certain category or class of persons or certain societies. It became a crucial part of our present life as well as the future… The business magazines in the Arab World are number limited likewise their expansion, which makes it barely compatible with the every day’s facts in all its perspectives.
AL MORAKEB AL INMAI deals with the economic event and provides it with sufficient studies and analyses, focuses on its political and social perspectives, and introduces the facts in a simplified yet professional style to the businessmen and experts as well as to the academic students and the reader globally.
Readers- The elite of businessmen.
- The leaders in both production and services sectors.
- University students, professors and experts.
- Every person interested in staying informed about the latest development in science and technology
Al Morakeb Al Inmai Magazine is published in Lebanon and distributed throughout the Arab world, the Lebanese and Arab Diaspora and all around the world.
AL MORAKEB AL INMAI is active in the banking, finance, insurance, information and communication technology, industry, travel and tourism, transport sectors. 75000 copies are issued every month, among which 10000 are distributed in Lebanon, 60000 copies distributed in the Arab World, mainly the KSA, UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, Qatar, and 5000 in Europe. And as it grows from one day to another, AL MORAKEB AL INMAI becomes more steady and widespread.
Sections
As a business pan Arab publication, AL MORAKEB AL INMAI deals with various economic sectors, mainly banking, insurance, commerce, local, regional and international economy, information and communication technology (ICT), transport, tourism and hotels, industry, in addition to other non regular sections.
AL MORAKEB AL INMAI is always present in the specialised conferences, seminars and fairs, and covers the most important events around the world, such as the IMF/World Bank Meetings, Rendez-Vous de Septembre (for insurance), Gitex - Dubai, Gitex – KSA, Termium, the Union of Arab Banks conferences held in different countries, Comdex – Las Vegas, SETI – Paris (European Week of Information Technology), the General Arab Insurance Federation (GAIF) conferences, City Scape…etc -
Al Bayan
Launched in Beirut 1970 by Al Bayan Publishing House.
Al Bayan Magazine has the highest share of the advertising expenditures in the Pan Arab Market for the business and economic magazines (Source: Ipsos – Stat).
Al Bayan reaches all decision makers in key positions of major industries throughout the Pan Arab region.
Al Bayan became member of OJD one of the largest organizations specializing in auditing & verifying the circulation of news media
Monthly Breakdown: 88,100 Copies
Topics: Banking, Investment & Financial Institutions | Insurance | Real Estate | Industry & Trade | Energy & Technology | Transportation & shipping | Leisure services.
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Asia Insurance Review
Asia Insurance Review was launched in January 1991 to meet the information needs of insurance practitioners in Asia in particular and the rest of the world in general. It quickly became the premier and comprehensive professional regional magazine, read by all the key decision makers and readers in the insurance industry in Asia from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.
As part of our growth process, and in response to the demands of readers, we went into organising insurance-related conferences to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to facilitate the transfer of technology to the region. Very quickly Asia Insurance Review’s technical conferences became an integral service to Asia’s insurance industry.
Together with The Review Worldwide, we launched the Asia Insurance Industry Awards to recognise and salute excellence in the insurance industry since 1997. We also launched the Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards in 2004. These are our conscious attempts to promote the industry's move towards higher standards and greater professionalism. -
Middle East Insurance Review
MiddleEast Insurance Review (MIR), launched on 1 September 2006, aims to meet the information needs of insurance practitioners in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region and the global takaful industry.
With our track record in publishing Asia Insurance Review, we are confident that MIR will quickly become the premier comprehensive professional regional magazine read by key decision makers in the industry within the region and globally.
Markets Covered
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, and global takaful including the Organisation of Islamic Conferences (OIC) which includes the Middle Eastern, African, Southeast Asian and other countries with a sizeable Muslim population.
Editorial Board
Supported by an editorial board consisting of leading personalities in the Mena region and the global takaful market, we are the region's foremost comprehensive professional journal serving the information needs of insurance and takaful practitioners.
Market Development
Update We cover not just the news within the insurance sector but also target the people and issues of vital importance to the development of the Mena insurance industry and global takaful industry.
Technical Knowledge
We keep practitioners informed of the latest technical developments in the industry.
Wide Circulation
Our readers are insurers, reinsurers, risk managers, brokers, loss adjusters, financial experts, capital-market players, technology providers, lawyers, management consultants, and Takaful operators. -
IIBI
IIBI is one of the world's leading independent academic and research organisation solely dedicated to the promotion and implementation of Islamic finance. The Institute has come a long way. It is the only organisation of its kind in the west, and has made a significant contribution to the education and training of people in Islamic banking and Insurance through a post-graduate diploma course, publications, lectures, seminars, workshops, research, Shariah advisory services and a highly informative user-friendly web site. The Institute is intending to introduce other courses by distance-learning in 2007, such as a Certificate for beginners and two Graduate Diplomas. -
Global Horizon
Global-Horizon is an official magazine of GIIBIC giving its readers an informative insight and global perspective of the developments in the Islamic finance industry, focusing on Africa, along with food for thought and articles on important and challenging issues facing the Islamic finance industry. The magazine is distributed to stakeholders around the world as well as leading libraries, economists, research scholars, and universities. Global Horizon is demand around the global Islamic Finance Industry. -
AlHuda Center of Islamic Banking & Islamic Economics
AlHuda Center of Islamic Banking and Islamic Economics (CIBE) is a recognized name in Islamic banking and finance Market for trainings, research and advisory over the last six years. The prime goal has always been to remain stick to the commitments and provide state-of-the-art Advisory Consultancy and Education through various well recognized modes viz. Campus programs, Distance learning programs, Trainings Workshops, Awareness Programs and Islamic Micro finance Products Development all side by side through our distinguished and generally acceptable and known Publications in Islamic Banking and Finance. We are dedicated to serve the community as a unique institution providing trainings, education and consultancy in the field of Islamic Banking & Finance not only in Pakistan but all over the world. We have so far organized more than 300 trainings. -
True Banking
True Banking is a Bi-Monthly magazine on Islamic Banking & Financial Services sector with specific target on research development, market analysis, Training & advancement in this sector with focusing of development of Islamic Banking, Takaful & Investment. The prime aim of True Banking to create harmony, awareness & innovation in this sector. It is another addition to AlHuda CIBE achievement in the direction towards promotion and development in Banking Sector. Editorial Policy: Independent Editorial Policy for the strengthened of Islamic Banking and Finance Industry Worldwide, with in depth Investigation reporting unbiased Industry Analysis and Introduce New Islamic Financial products to the Industry worldwide.
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