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There have been some significant developments recently in the Tanzanian Islamic finance industry, particularly in the Sukuk and Takaful sectors, which Salum Awadh, CEO of SSC Capital, discusses with IFN’s Nessreen Tamano in this week’s episode of the IFN Podcast. 

The future looks good for Indonesia's Islamic finance and banking industry, given the support it has been receiving from the government. Things are also looking up for Bank Muamalat Indonesia following a restructuring exercise, as Achmad Kusna Permana, CEO of the bank, discusses with IFN's Nessreen Tamano in this episode.

The first-ever green Sukuk facility to come out of Turkey was issued by state-owned Emlak Participation Bank in late 2021, and the bank is now preparing to issue another one in two months. Esma Karabulut, the head of investment banking and investor relations at Emlak Participation Bank, talks to IFN’s Nessreen Tamano about the nascent green Sukuk market in Turkey in this episode of the IFN Podcast.

We are seeing mixed projections for the different sectors of the global Islamic finance industry. For example: A strong growth momentum for Shariah compliant banking assets, resilience within the Islamic insurance and Shariah funds sectors, and weaker Sukuk volumes. In this episode, Ashraf Madani, a vice-president at Moody’s Investors Service, navigates the Islamic banking and finance offering a clearer picture of what the year has in store for Islamic finance.  

When robo-advisors started becoming a reality in the investment space, many pundits hailed them as a disruptor of traditional financial services, but have they actually 'disrupted' the industry in the Middle East where analysts say has only captured a fraction of its digital potential? In this episode, Vineeta Tan speaks to Omar Shaikh, the founder and CEO of Cocoa Invest, an Islamic robo-advisor regulated in Bahrain, to understand the Shariah digital investment space in the Middle East, particularly the GCC. 

Digital investment management or robo-advisory is growing phenomenally in the US – but what is the reality like with Islamic robo-advisors? In this episode, IFN Managing Editor Vineeta Tan speaks to the founder and CEO of US-based Aghaz Investments, Khurram Agha, to get a picture of the Shariah compliant robo-advisory market in the US to understand the gaps and prospects.  

The Nigerian Sukuk landscape has a busy year ahead, as regulators tighten up guidelines for issuances and both the government and the private sector turn to the Islamic debt capital market for its financing needs. Dr Akeem Oyewale, CEO of Marble Capital, talks to IFN's Nessreen Tamano about what we can expect in 2022 from Nigeria in this episode of the IFN Podcast.

Craig Reeves, the founder of Prestige Funds, talks to IFN's Nessreen Tamano about the hunt for yield in the sustainable Islamic investment space, as well as the overlap between Shariah compliant and sustainable asset management, in this episode of the IFN Podcast.