It appears that International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp. plans to sell $1 billion of the first global Shariah-compliant dollar bills by the middle of the year.
The Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Financial Services Board forsees a growth from $1 trillion industry to $2.8 trillion by 2015.
It seems that the growth in Malaysia’s Islamic banking deposits has passed non-Shariah-compliant counterparts by almost three times, increasing an average 17.6 % over the past 10 years, compared with 7.1%.
The following borrowers are anticipated to sell Islamic bonds, which use asset returns to pay investors to acceed with the religion’s ban on interest: MAJID AL FUTTAIM HOLDING LLC, ALBARAKA TURK KATILIM BANKASI AS (ALBRK), ASYA KATILIM BANKASI AS (ASYAB), GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC. (GS) , ALMARAI CO, MYDIN MOHAMED HOLDINGS BHD., BARWA BANK, ISLAMIC BANK OF THAILAND, PALESTINE MONETARY AUTHORITY:, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT CORP., AL BARAKA BANK EGYPT ESC and many others.
The list following borrowers are anticipated to sell Islamic bonds: Indonesia, ABU DHABI NATIONAL ENERGY CO, QATAR INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC BANK (QIIK), TENAGA NASIONAL BHD. (TNB), MIDCITI RESOURCES SDN BHD., AL HILAL BANK, EMERY OLEOCHEMICALS GROUP, PT BANK MUAMALAT INDONESIA, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT CORP., ACWA POWER INTERNATIONAL, ISLAMIC BANK OF THAILAND, PT BANK SYARIAH BRI, Russia, Senegal, TOURISM DEVELOPMENT & INVESTMENT CO., KUVEYT TURK KATILIM BANKASI AS and many others.