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Coming of Age
Islamic capital markets have experienced phenomenal growth in recent years as investors clamour for Shariah-compliant exposures across the full range of financial products, from equities and bonds, to securitisation, bank finance, LBOs, derivatives, private equity, commodities and funds.
Supplying the buy-side with product has led to ferocious competition between Gulf-based and international banks. Yet the final pieces of the jigsaw, including the development of secondary markets, and the standardisation needed to ensure a dynamic and sustainable Islamic capital market, remain elusive and need to be developed if the industry is to move to the next stage of growth.
Unique among conferences of its kind, the IFR Islamic Capital Markets Conference is the only event focusing exclusively on the Islamic capital markets and is a must-attend for players across the entire capital markets spectrum at Islamic and conventional banks, private equity houses, project financiers, institutional investors and hedge funds.
Drawing on IFR's unparalleled industry coverage, commentary and analysis, the conference will explore the latest trends and developments in this rapidly growing sector and offer forward-looking insights into key Islamic capital markets issues for 2007 and beyond.
Key discussion points include:
- Creating the Critical Underpinnings of Dynamic Islamic Capital Markets: To what extent are schools of Islamic thought converging towards a consistent view of Shariah-compliant capital markets? Myth and reality of buy-and-hold versus the development of secondary markets
- Corporate Capital Raising in the Islamic Capital Markets: What are the advantages, as well as the essential limitations of the sukuk as a fund raising and investment vehicle? What are the international issuers' experiences of fundraising in the Islamic capital markets, and the prospects for sukuk issuance in the non-Islamic world?
- Opportunties, Risks and Pitfalls in Islamic Asset and Fund Management: What are the drivers for the current interest in Islamic investing? To what extent are Islamic investments essentially ethical investments, and what are the prospects for attracting other ethical and non-ethical investors to Islamic funds?
- Opportunities in Islamic Growth Markets: Private Equity and Venture Capital
- What is the potential, and what are the limitations to the growth of Islamic private equity and venture capital? What is the scope for Islamic private equity and M&A?
- Innovations on the Cutting Edge of the Islamic Capital Markets: The Shariah Compliant Hedge Fund and Islamic securitisation
- The Islamic Bankers Forum: The Great East-West Divide?
- Is it sufficient for Islamic products to mirror conventional products, or should Islamic finance aim to be qualitatively different from conventional finance? How can conventional banks overcome the perception that they are not truly Islamic? How can conventional Islamic banks respond to the new competitive pressures from international banks entering the fray?
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Confirmed speakers include:
- Ijlal Alvi, Chief Executive Officer, International Islamic Financial Market
- Usman Ahmed, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Citi Islamic Investment Bank
- Hussein Rifai, Managing Director, Injazat Capital
- Tadashi Maeda, Director General, Energy and Natural Resources Finance Department, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
- Suhail Arian, Investment Director, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership
- Jeremy Beswick, Head of Asset Management, European Islamic Investment Bank EIIB
- Eric Meyer, President and CEO, Shariah Capital
- Duncan Crawford, Manager Capital Introductions – Alternative Investment Solutions, Fimat International Banque, S.A
- Dr H Faraz Naqvi, Managing Director, Avicenna Capital
- Professor Gerard Gennotte, Partner, Ratings Intelligence
- Iad Georges Boustany, General Manager, BSEC S.A.
- Badlisyah Abdul Ghani, Chief Executive Officer, CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad
- Abdulrazzak Elkhraijy, Head of Islamic Banking Development Group, National Commercial Bank
- Peter M. Werner, Policy Director, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
- Idayu Zainuddin, Head of Islamic Structuring and Product Development, UBS Investment Bank
- Roger Ohan, Director, GlobeOp Financial Services
- Irfan Siddiqui, President and Chief Executive Officer, Meezan Bank Limited
- David Testa, Executive Director, WestLB
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Samantha Armstrong on +44 (0)20 7369 7865 or email Samantha.armstrong@thomson.com
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