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Islamic finance has been given the boost it needed in the Gulf by a Qatari ban on conventional banks offering sharia-compliant services.
Qatar's move last month draws a line in the sand between Islamic banks and their conventional peers, which control 83 percent of the region's banking assets.
If Qatar's move to separate conventional and sharia-compliant operations is mirrored by other central banks eager to prove their commitment to the nearly $1 trillion Islamic finance industry, this will be higher.