Saudi DMO Maintains Domestic Sovereign Sukuk Issuance Momentum with Ninth Consecutive Offering as 2019 Offerings to Date Reach US$15 billion, including another 30-Year Tranche

The Debt Management Office (DMO) of the Saudi Ministry of Finance continued its proactive on-going monthly domestic sovereign Sukuk issuance in September 2019 with a three-tranche riyal-denominated offering totaling SR8.834…

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Crown Commercial Service Sends Out RFP for Proposed Second UK Sterling-denominated Sovereign Sukuk

Deal or no Deal, Brexit or No Brexit, the UK’s Islamic finance proposition continues to consolidate as the country seeks to forge new trading, investment and financial partnerships. The issuance…

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Global Islamic Finance Industry Consolidates its Embracing of Digitisation and FinTech Solutions

The global Islamic finance sector, together with the wider financial services industry in the OIC countries, continues to embrace ESG and FinTech, some of the initiatives being particularly innovative, across…

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Dubai’s Emaar Properties Returns to Sukuk Market After Absence of Three Years with Hybrid $500m Benchmark Issuance

Dubai-based international property developer, Emaar Properties, returned to the Sukuk market after a hiatus of three years to successfully closed its latest offering, a US$500 million benchmark Sukuk issuance in…

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Malaysia’s Cagamas Berhad Defies Global Growth Challenges and Trade Tension Sentiments with Three Competitively-priced Sukuk Issuances in August to Support Mortgage Market

Cagamas Berhad, the National Mortgage Corporation of Malaysia, one of the most prolific issuers of Sukuk, continues to play a major role in Sukuk issuance and in the Islamic mortgage…

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Saudi DMO Maintains Domestic Sovereign Sukuk Issuance Momentum with Eighth Consecutive Offering as 2019 Offerings to Date Reach US$13 billion in a Changing Issuance Architecture

The Debt Management Office (DMO) of the Saudi Ministry of Finance, continued its proactive on-going monthly domestic sovereign Sukuk issuance in August 2019 with a three-tranche riyal-denominated offering totaling SR2.261…

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Turkey’s Domestic Sukuk Issuances Maintain Traction as Ankara Issues its Latest Offering of TL846.5m Sukuk Al Ijarah Despite Continuing Global Trade Tensions and Domestic Economic Woes

The Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Finance successfully issued its latest offering of domestic Sukuk – a TR846.5 million (US$148.12) issuance of Lease Certificates (Sukuk Al Ijarah) on 21 August…

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Bank Negara Malaysia Plans Next Great Leap Forward for E-Payments as Russia’s Sberbank Pioneers PayZakat Start-up and Dubai’s Addenda Blockchain Platform Targets Takaful and Insuretech Firms

The fit between Islamic finance and the wider global ESG/SRI, FinTech and Digitisation sectors continues at a measured pace, with a recognized and on-going need for the further development of…

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