Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the practices of Islamic banks in managing the so-called profit sharing investment accounts (PSIA) which they offer as a Shari’ah-compliant alternative to interest-bearing deposit accounts using an unrestricted Mudarabah contract. In...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the issue that arises in the context of benchmark rate (or interest rate) changes made for reasons of monetary policy in a jurisdiction with a significant presence of Islamic banks. Changes, especially increases, in the prevailing interest rate made by...

Islamic banks do not pay interest on customers' deposit accounts. Instead, customers' funds are placed in profit-sharing investment accounts (PSIA). Under this arrangement, the returns to the bank's customers are their pro-rata shares of the returns on the assets in which their funds are...

The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. This comprehensive Handbook provides a succinct analysis of the workings of...

Purpose – The aims of this paper are: first, to draw attention to the issues of displaced commercial risk (DCR) which arise as a result of the risk characteristics of profit‐sharing investment accounts (PSIA), the main source of funding of Islamic banks in most jurisdictions; and, second, to...

Islamic banks are subject to religious audit in addition to the ormal financial auditing process which is carried out in other business organisations. The former type of audit is conducted by in‐house religious advisers who are employed by the bank. These advisers issue a special report to...

Reports that, unlike Western commercial banks, Islamic banks are prohibited by Islamic precepts to receive or pay interest, inter alia, in all their transactions. Argues that the Basle capital adequacy ratio (CAR), which was implemented in 1992 by regulatory authorities in many countries, is...