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Key Islamic Banking Challenges - Zaher Barakat, PhD Candidate and Allen Merhej

Article published in Islamic Finance in Practice, Autumn 2008

Introduction: This year has marked another successful year in the record books for the Islamic finance industry. Islamic financial assets currently stand at between US $600 and US $700 billion and have been growing at 20 to 30 per cent per year over the past decade. Many industry experts estimate that the industry will exceed US $1 trillion by 2010. With fast expansion comes big risks and challenges. Due to its religious underpinning, the Islamic finance industry faces a unique set of challenges. As such, practitioners should be increasingly vigilant in order for the industry to stay on the right track and prevent it from derailing.

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