Islamic Finance

2020 ◽  
pp. 306-334
Author(s):  
Vasileios Pappas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Far East ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
Substantial Growth ◽  
Significant Volume ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Conventional Banks

The Islamic finance industry is estimated around $1.7 trillion with substantial growth momentum in the past decades. It is now too important to be ignored, particularly in the Middle and Far East. This chapter reviews the most salient features of Islamic finance that distinguish it from the rest of the conventional financial universe. A significant volume of research focuses on the comparative performance of Islamic and conventional banks across a wide range of metrics, such as profitability, risk, and efficiency. Islamic stock and bonds markets are also an important segment of the related comparative literature and we reviews these studies, too. This chapter provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the extant literature, useful for academics and practitioners with little or significant experience in the Islamic finance sector.

Do Crypto Currencies Meet the Requirements of the Islamic Finance Industry?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magomet Yandiev ◽  
Gapur Oziev
Keyword(s):  
Positive Response ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Crypto Currency

Is it possible to use crypto-currencies? This question is actual for active users of Islamic financial instruments. This paper gives a positive response to this question, but with a wide range of refinements, significantly limiting the list of allowable operations with crypto currency.

General Takaful claims: An experience of Takaful operator in Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Amirul Afif Muhamat ◽  
Mohamad Nizam Jaafar ◽  
Sharifah Faigah Syed Alwi
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Finance Industry ◽  
General Insurance ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Islamic Insurance ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Observation Period

Takaful is interchangeably referred as Islamic insurance. In Malaysia, the takaful sector is part of the main components for Islamic finance industry. The business can be divided into two: general and family takaful. To ease understanding on this niche sector; general takaful is comparable to general insurance while family takaful is akin to life insurance with special reference needs to be given on the requirement of the business to adhere to the Islamic precepts. The main business in general takaful is motor takaful and this line of business is faced with high takaful claims. This study appraised the factors which affect the general takaful claims based on the experience of one takaful operator in Malaysia (the name of takaful operator is not disclosed due to confidentiality). The factors are: number of claims; fraud; and coverage for protection. The limitation of this study is that the observation period is only 10 years which limits rigorous analysis to be done. Nevertheless, previous studies in this area depict the same limitation – constraint in gathering data that has long observation period. On the bright side, the data in this study is still capable to produce meaningful results to be referred with regards to this issue – general takaful claims.

Religiosity, Neglected Risk and Asset Returns: Theory and Evidence from Islamic Finance Industry

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Azmat ◽  
Haiqa Ali ◽  
A. S. M. Sohel Azad ◽  
M. Kabir Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Asset Returns ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Finance Industry

Tata Wiron: branding galvanized wires

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Vijay Pundalik Bhangale ◽  
Maithili Prashant Dhuri
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Far East ◽  
Commodity Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Steel Wires ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Major Player ◽  
Depth Analysis

Subject area Marketing. Study level/applicability MBA Marketing Class. Case overview The case describes the transition of a “Galvanized Wires Business of Tata Steel” into a unique identity, the'Tata Wiron' brand. It focuses on key stages in this journey, including “Understanding the Customers in Galvanized Wires Business”, “Value Chain”, “Challenges Faced”, “Need for Branding”, “Market Segmentation”, “Competition”, “Process of Branding”, “Differentiation”, “Distribution & Sales” and “Promotion”. Tata Steel Wires Business is a major player in the steel wire industry, servicing the discerning needs of its customers across global markets and the leading producer of steel wires in India. A wealth of experience and expertise in the wire industry coupled with latest technology incorporations has enabled Tata Steel Wires Division to constantly meet the most exacting specifications and requirements of its customers. It manufactures a wide range of wires catering to the needs of various industry segments, such as automobile, infrastructure, power and general engineering. The products are well established across the markets of Europe, the USA, Middle East Asia, Australasia, South Asia and Asia and the Far East. Expected learning outcomes The expected learning outcomes are as follows: understanding how in-depth analysis of the competition and value chain establishes the need for branding in a commodity market; understanding how consumer insights help in market segmentation and targeting; and building a brand in commodity market. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

scholarly journals Evaluating CRoS-NDN: a comparative performance analysis of a controller-based routing scheme for named-data networking

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Vitor Torres ◽  
Igor Drummond Alvarenga ◽  
Raouf Boutaba ◽  
Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Content Distribution Networks ◽  
Named Data Networking ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Delay Performance ◽  
Data Packets ◽  
Routing Scheme ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Data Networking

Abstract The huge amount of content names available in Named-Data Networking (NDN) challenges both the required routing table size and the techniques for locating and forwarding information. Content copies and content mobility exacerbate the scalability challenge to reach content in the new locations. We present and analyze the performance of a proposed Controller-based Routing Scheme, named CRoS-NDN, which preserves NDN features using the same interest and data packets. CRoS-NDN supports content mobility and provides fast content recovery from copies that do not belong to the consumer-producer path because it splits identity from location without incurring FIB size explosion or supposing prefix aggregation. It provides features similar to Content Distribution Networks (CDN) in NDN, and improves the routing efficiency. We compare our proposal with similar routing protocols and derive analytical expressions for lower-bound efficiency and upper-bound latency. We also conduct extensive simulations to evaluate results in data delivery efficiency and delay. The results show the robust behavior of the proposed scheme achieving the best efficiency and delay performance for a wide range of scenarios. Furthermore, CRoS-NDN results in low use of processing time and memory for a growing number of prefixes.

Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Significant Volume ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
A Site ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Gradual Transformation

Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, this volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quests to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

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