Episode 62-Why Islamic Finance Isn’t Driving ...

Why are major financial institutions struggling to scale sustainable Islamic finance?In this episode of Majlis & Markets, we sit down with Maya Marissa Malek, CEO of Sābiq Advisory, to unpack the critical operational gaps, compliance tensions, and commercial realities shaping mod ...  Show more

The $6 trillion Islamic finance market faces an existential tension: it was built to champion equitable risk-sharing, yet it remains heavily dominated by rigid, rule-based legal screening. Can artificial intelligence resolve this bottleneck? Can advanced machine learning models m ...  Show more

In this episode, Saifdean talks to Safdar Alam, CEO of investment firm Maydan Capital, about Islamic finance. Safdar starts by describing the basic principles of Islamic finance and the ethical justification for Islam’s prohibition on lending with interest. He and Saifedean th ...

<h3>Topics include:</h3><ul><li>Why 60% of Qatar’s population lacks access to credit</li><li>Shareeq Neo’s instant loan platform for salary cardholders</li><li>Building a cross-border fintech with Sharia principles</li><li>Fingular’s mission to solve financial exclusion globally< ...  Show more

Welcome back to another wind down with me episode! This episode covers a wide range of topics from finance & business to haya and judgement etc. 

For a conscientious Muslim, managing ones money in the West can be a difficult prospect. Islam has a series of rules to do with money, the prohibition of riba (interest) being the key one, and rules on trade that often places it at odds with a rather laissez faire Neo liberal mod ...  Show more