Foreign Shariah advisories make their mark in Malaysian Islamic capital market

The latest list of Shariah advisers serving the local Islamic capital market (ICM) and registered by the Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) reveales that five such individual foreign advisers are registered with the commission.
The list, published recently in Kuala Lumpur, displays that Malaysia has 45 individual Shariah advisers and 10 Shariah advisory companies registered with the commission, who are authorized to provide such advisory services to market players in the local ICM, which includes investment funds, asset management, unit trusts, sukuk, private debt securities and other fixed income instruments.