viernes, 21 de mayo de 2010

The Banking System Of the Arab World


The Arab contries that are 25, in the last years have experimented a great growth in their economies, this is because the oil high prices.

The Arab banking is the largest worldwide Arab branch network, with presence in 30 countries and has presence also in the main financial markets in the world such as New York and London.

The banking system of the Islamic culture works according to the Shariah (Islamic rulings), Shari'ah prohibits the payment or acceptance of interest charges (riba, “usury”) for the lending and accepting of money.

In the Arab banking system there are some restrictions, some transactions that must be excluded, some of the excluded transactions are those that include involve alcohol, pork and gambling.

The western banks models are much more than the Islamic banks, but due to the good function and development of the arab banking model some western banks are implementing now days the Shari´ah.
Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. revised on May 21,2010 from the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance website:http://www.islamic-banking.com/what_is_ibanking.aspx

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