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HH Mohammed bin Rashid launches ‘Salaam Gateway’ portal

Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, launched ‘Salaam Gateway’, the first and only online platform for all Islamic economy-related industry intelligence, news, information, and data needed by industry-related professionals to advance their businesses and fuel their innovations.

The launch of the portal took place on the opening day of the Global Islamic Economy Summit (GIES 2015) taking place at the Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.

An initiative of the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (#DIEDC) in partnership with Thomson Reuters, the electronic platform reaffirms the UAE’s status as a hub for the Islamic economy. More significantly, the portal articulates Dubai’s strategy for Islamic economy development that was launched in 2013.

The Islamic Financial World Order in Istanbul via World Bank

Earlier this month we mentioned  that Turkey was to open first Islamic finance research center.

 

Now today it was announced The World Bank will open its first center on Islamic Finance at Borsa Istanbul premises, the exchange market said Monday.

A statement on Borsa Istanbul's website says a ceremony will be held later on Monday to inaugurate the World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Center, the first of its kind.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Treasury Undersecretary Ibrahim Halil Canakci and Borsa Istanbul Chairman & CEO Dr. Ibrahim M. Turhan will participate in the ceremony, the statement adds.

Istanbul has become more popular in recent months as a center of finance, specifically in Islamic instruments. Turkey issued its first sukuk, Islamic equivalent of bonds, in September 2012, and this year in the same month Istanbul hosted an international forum on financial systems where the topic of Islamic finance featured prominently.

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