For a developing country such as Bangladesh, the banking system is one of the most important preconditions to achieve economic development. This study covers a five-year period (2007-2011) and includes ten sample banks from the Islamic and conventional banking sectors to study the...

The Clouds have changed the way services are delivered to the company. Existing systems of Clouds do not support advanced mechanisms for the optimal trade applications across different Clouds. To improve resource management in the Cloud, we integrate the concept of auction Club, which regroups a...

Islamic banks today are criticised by many for not being different from conventional banks owing to their indulgence in non bona fide transactions. The liquidity management practice of commodity Murabaha is one of the most controversial. Islamic banks resort to Tawarruq-based commodity Murabaha...

This paper investigates the market structure and the degree of concentration of Islamic banking industry. This paper reports an empirical assessment of competitive conditions among the Arab GCC banking industry during the years of 2005-2010. We opt for the methodology as proposed by Panzar and...

The current global financial crisis has revealed many failures of the conventional banking system. However, this context of turbulences has presented the Islamic banking system with a great opportunity to introduce its fundamental methods and principles inspired from the Islamic Shariah law. The...

The research is an attempt to have an overview of the need for derivatives and their possible role in Islamic finance, stressing on the Shariah qualification and prohibitions on the controversial conventional derivative products. This research focuses on the derivative products and their role in...

Islamic banking has achieved exceptional growth in the last two decades and has been able to sustain it even during the recession and afterwards. In this paper, we highlight that lack of flexible financing options, incomplete product mix, scale diseconomies, contractual frictions and constraints...

This paper explores the relative efficiency of 65 conventional and Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) over the period from 2002 to 2010. The empirical results suggest that the proposed input variables are significantly related to...

The purpose of this research is to analyse some key issues in corporate governance in Islamic banks. This governance has been analysed almost exclusively in the context of conventional banking markets. Islamic banking shows a fundamental departure from conventional banking. Our objective is also...

The information potential of the internet is claimed to be heralding a new age of consumer empowerment, providing consumers with access to increased amounts of information which can be used to aid decision making. Yet, to what extent does this hold true for pensions? Pensions are complex...