New UAE strategy aims to double sukuk and banking assets, boosting Islamic finance clout The number of top-tier sovereign and corporate issues in the Gulf's Sukuk space are many. They offer some ...

While Islamic banking is expanding despite the governance problems of some lenders led by the controversial S Alam Group, Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur recently signalled that the ...

UAE’s digital-first Islamic bank ruya announced enabling customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin directly through its mobile app. The new service is offered in partnership with Fuze ...

In a global first, UAE-based Islamic bank ruya launches Shari’ah-compliant cryptocurrency investment services, enabling customers to buy and sell Bitcoin and other virtual assets through its mobile ...

The UAE has emerged as a global hub for Islamic finance over the past five decades, marking a significant transformation in the financial landscape of the region and beyond. The growing sector ...

A Malaysian online series about a fictional Islamic cult has topped a billion streams across local users and in Indonesia, with its disturbing depiction of a predatory cult leader igniting strong ...

Arab Finance: Fawry, Egypt’s leading fintech company, announced that its fully owned subsidiary, Fawry MSME Finance, has secured an Islamic financing license from the Financial Regulatory Authority ...

The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq's prime minister announced on Friday. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or "Abu Khadija," was killed in an operation by members ...

One month ago, on the morning of Feb. 4, forces from Somalia’s Puntland region attacked Islamic State terror group fighters, who responded with drones, suicide ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia - The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out ... Those who resisted were firebombed. Before long, al-Karrar, the group’s regional financial office, had established ...

the Islamic State restructured its African operations, placing affiliates in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo under al-Karrar, the Somali financial hub.

U.S. warplanes took aim at the Islamic State affiliate in Somalia, hitting what officials described as high-ranking operatives in the terror group's mountainous ...