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Sector: Debt / Fixed Income
Easy ride at Islamic banks?
If you fancy a safe bet this year, move into Islamic finance – business is booming and experience of the sector isn’t essential. Islamic banks in the GCC have emerged virtually unscathed from the US sub-prime crisis. It helps that collateralised debt obligations, high risk mortgages, and other unfathomably complex investment vehicles are incompatible with [...]
Wanted: a corporate police force
Dubai Inc. is making moves to wipe a sometimes misty window transparent, which is good news for corporate governance professionals. The region hasn’t exactly been known for good corporate governance in the past. Earlier this month The Times claimed that the chairman of one of Dubai’s biggest investment funds kept schtum on the value of [...]
Sharia goes higher
Time to brush up on your knowledge of Islamic finance: Emirates headhunters say a hiring spree is on the cards. “Even though Islamic finance has been around for years, it’s only now really attracting the attention of the major players,” says James Mackenzie, managing director of Mackenzie Executive Search in Dubai. “There are quite a [...]
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