Usman Hayat, CFA, director of Islamic finance & ESG Investing at CFA Institute

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Islamic Finance: An evolving niche

Any opinions expressed here are solely those of the writer. Modern Islamic finance has come a long way since initial experiments in the 1960s. As the leading and most comprehensive form of faith-based finance, it now covers banking, capital markets and insurance. And its rapid expansion in different parts of the world stems from various […]

By Usman Hayat, CFA, director of Islamic finance & ESG Investing at CFA Institute |October 13, 2010

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