Some pieces of information on Islamic finance were offered a while ago in this blog (in Portuguese, here, here and here). New info on some recent trends in the world of Islamic finance can be found in this post by Ian Fraser from Q Finance. Let me add the picture below (click on it and it will take you to the post “Islamic finance could aid development”, published in The Guardian). And the Sheng & Singh piece can be found here.
Ian believes that “the centre of gravity of global finance [may] shift from London and New York to the Gulf and Kuala Lumpur”. It sounds like a long strecth, but the idea of some “convergence” trend mentioned in the post seem worth looking into.
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