The Islamic finance industry has witnessed an increasing interest in the FinTech wave. While progress has relatively been made in the areas of Robo-advisory, sandbox, payment system and investment, among others, the applications of these Islamic finance FinTech business models have been in...

This paper investigates a special form of cooperative mortgage financing practiced in Oman. We integrate the literature of Mortgage Design with that of ROSCAs/ ASCRAs to illustrate that this mode of financing dissipates credit risk better than the formal mode of financing. It is also resilient...

The Islamic response to the ever present need of home financing manifests itself predominantly in ‘Bai-Bithaman Ajil' (BBA) and ‘Musharakah Mutanaqisah' (MM) inter alia. They are both essentially structured concepts consisting of Murabahah in the case of BBA, and musharakah and Ijarah in the...

The 2008 Financial Crisis has compelled the international financial industry, politicians and homeowners to search their souls for the root causes of the problem. Many point to insufficient regulatory supervision, others to a culture addicted to credit and sheer greed. While these issues...

Housing is considered the basic necessity of human being and its shortage is a major problem worldwide especially in less developed countries including Pakistan. Recently the commercial banks in Pakistan have started looking for housing finance. In addition to conventional banks Islamic banks...

In this paper, we try to analyze the US residential mortgage crisis in the light of the financial principles of Shari'ah. For this purpose, we will firstly present a summery of the US residential mortgage crisis. Then, in the second part of the paper, we will explore relevant financial...