International Journal of Islamic Financial Services Vol. 1 No.1 ISLAMIC INSTRUMENTS FOR MANAGING LIQUIDITY Yahia Abdul-Rahman This paper provides a practitioners perspective on the overwhelming need for prudent management of liquidity and development of Islamic money market instruments. Islamic banking and financing is gaining momentum world-wide. Many of the international RIBA banks are now focusing on LARIBA banking and financing to gain a significant market share of the funds and the deals
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Professor Kingshott Midterm “What were the cause of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009” The 2008 financial crisis led to a sharp increase in mortgage foreclosures primarily subprime leading to a collapse in several mortgage lenders. Recurrent foreclosures and the harms of subprime mortgages were caused by loose lending practices, housing bubble, low interest rates and extreme risk taking. Additionally, expert analysis on the 2008 financial crisis asserts that the cause was also due to erroneous
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Executive Summary The financial institutions industry in our country represents one of the most important industries those control the monetary flow in the economy. From the very first of its journey (Started by Industrial Promotion Company of Bangladesh Limited.) this industry has shown so much prospect as well as progress. Sharing some common characteristics of Banks & some of its own it brought diversification in the financial market. In the same time it witnessed impressive growth during
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Chapter 2 Literature review This chapter provides a synthesis of the existing literature on the role of banks towards sustainable development and corporate financial performance. It outlines the various stakeholders and forces that influence the banks’ sustainability initiatives. This chapter also put together the relevant theoretical frameworks on CSR and sustainable banking, highlighting their relevance, strengths and weakness in fully understanding CSR and concepts. 2.1 Banks and their function
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- The role of financial institutions and the different types of financial institutions Depository Institutions: 1. They offer deposit accounts that can accommodate the amount and liquidity characteristics desired by most surplus units 2. They repackage funds received and deposits to provide loans of the sie and maturity desired by deficit units 3. They accept the risk on loans provided 4. They have more expertise than individual surplus units in evaluating the creditworthiness
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How can the firm’s internal institution affect the corporate governance of an institution? The internal institutions of corporate governance are the shareholders, board of directors, executives and non executive and auditors. Shareholders shall monitor the status of the firm that they are in to and create rules on how it should be operated. Board of directors should be responsible for the governance of the corporation, setting policies for the accomplishment of the corporate objectives and provides
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background To The Study The financial system is created to move funds from surplus economic units to deficit economic units in order to produce goods and services and to make investment in new equipment and facilities so as to facilitate the growth of the economy and improve the standard of living of its citizens. It is generally recognized that financial system plays a catalytic role in the process of economic development. The financial system of any nation is a function of the size
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DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL MARKET IN BANGLADESH 1. INTRODUCTION The financial system in South Asia is dominated by the banking system in terms of assets, or finance of private households and domestic companies; major financial institutions are banks. This is why financial instrument of the financial market of Bangladesh are bank dominated. But a developed and diversified financial system with a sound debt and equity market enhances risk pooling and risk sharing opportunities for investors and
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007, there has been a great deal of debate regarding the key underlying causes. For example, when people discuss the collapse of the financial markets, the most frequently mentioned word is subprime mortgagewhich is considered as the culprit of the crisis. Yet, is subprime mortgage the root of the crisis? If it was, then the question would be how this type of financial product, which is only marginal part of the financial market, could cause such a catastrophic
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JEEV SEWA SANSTHAN GROUP OF INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT PGDM-1 2012-2013 INDIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM TOPIC- FINANCIAL MARKET SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: Miss Ankita Rajdev Nisha Kumari Garima Jain Kohila Chouhan Laxmi Nandwani Sanchita Vishwakarma Neha Satwani ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Guidance, help and encouragement
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