This paper analyzes detailed differences in patterns of financial development across the major Asian economies, including three of the region's largest economies (China, Japan and South Korea), to understand how these differences might affect possibilities for greater regional financial...

This paper investigates the question of whether the phenomenon of Islamic finance who based on Shariah, or Islamic law is truly globalizing and spreading as a universal system of finance and banking. The paper also addresses various aspects of the globalization for Islamic finance, among other,...