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Discover the world of ethical, sustainable, and inclusive finance with FinFormed. Dive into engaging content on Islamic banking, takaful, green sukuk, and more. Your ultimate guide to Islamic Finance.

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  1. Why Shariah-Compliant Stocks Are Heavily Tilted Towards AI Shariah screens leave halal equity funds heavily weighted toward AI and technology. How the debt ratio moves with share prices, and who decides the rules savers inherit. 6 min read · Islamic Finance
  2. Sukuk Are Always Oversubscribed. Then Why Do So Few Ordinary Muslims Own One? Sukuk books are often several times covered, yet ordinary savers hold very little. Who buys sukuk, why retail stays out, and whether sukuk are cheap money. 7 min read · Islamic Finance
  3. Egypt Has a Citizen Bond. Why Not a Citizen Sukuk? Egypt's 2026 Citizen Bond lets ordinary people lend to the state at the post office. Retail sukuk have done the same since 2009. 7 min read · Islamic Finance
  4. Islamic finance counts its money. It should also count its people. Paraguay's Ueno Bank and a failed Islamic peer-to-peer platform show why Islamic finance supervisors need to follow customers as well as assets. 4 min read · Islamic Finance
  5. Dear Aisha, The Bank Wanted You First In 1992, Malaysian banks gave children story books for keeping money in the bank. A father's letter on what has changed, what has not, and what Islamic finance sees in the gift. 5 min read · Islamic Finance
  6. Islamic Finance Talent and the Habit We Forgot We Had What Islamic finance talent needs next: do the reading, disagree kindly, stay stubborn about the right things. 6 min read · Islamic Finance
  1. Should Bangladesh Borrow From Wall Street Before It Borrows From Itself? Bangladesh's first dollar bond may cost 8% while its own sukuk auctions are ten times oversubscribed. What the price buys, and what to build at home. 9 min read · Islamic Finance
  2. Who Else Is Watching the Names on a Sukuk Board? My last piece asked whether investors pay for famous scholars or for scarce paper. Evidence on captive demand, and a regulator that caps scholar board seats, takes the question further. 5 min read · Islamic Finance
  3. A Journal Says Famous Scholars Lower Sukuk Returns. I am Not Convinced. A paper says investors accept lower sukuk returns when famous Shariah scholars sit on the board. But the market it describes tells a different story. 5 min read · Islamic Finance
  4. Islamic Finance in Sri Lanka That Never Say "Islamic" Sri Lanka's Islamic finance industry passed USD 1 billion. The 2005 law behind it never says "Islamic". Why that helped, and why the sector is still small. 8 min read · Islamic Finance
  5. Why the Takaful Fund Has No Capital of Its Own? Suppose you know a shopkeeper in your area. He runs a small electrical goods store and pays 40,000 a year into a Takaful 6 min read · Islamic Finance
  6. Why Islamic Banks Lend Like Conventional Banks? Why do Islamic banks rely on murabahah, not profit sharing? The cause is an information problem, and tax e-invoicing data could fix it. 8 min read · Islamic Finance

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