Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ethics in Finance: Definition -- Chapter 3. The ESG World -- Chapter 4. The Fight Against Money Laundering and Tax Evasion -- Chapter 5. The Fight Against Usury -- Chapter 6. Islamic Finance and Microcredit -- Chapter 7. The Rescue of Banks in Crisis --...

Examines the roots of the principles of ethical Islamic financial transactions, which have evolved over several millennia, on issues including usury, interest rates, and financial contracting for funding enterprises, mortgages, leasing and other transactions. Regulatory and governance issues are...

This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the conventional products can be redrafted as Sharia-compliant products, so that the differences are smaller than expected. Comparing...