This study aims at forming strategic response to assess the ability of Islamic banks in benefiting from the opportunities that may be provided by financial globalization and limits its threats, through assessing the capability of Islamic banks to meet the requirements and challenges of financial...

This paper study a unique model for financial cooperation has been found in many countries around the world known as Rotating Saving and Credit Associations ROSCAs, which known in Egypt many decades ago. This arrangement between homogenous group of people based on the principle of Mutual Qard...

This paper aims at clarifying the concept of Islamic Financial System (IFS), as part of the whole Islamic economic system and its viability to be applied nowadays. The paper included exploring the nature, origin, distinctive criteria, unique features, goals of IFS and the means to achieve them,...

Jordanian Islamic Banks (JIBs) are faced by an enormous challenge that is the financial Globalization and liberalization, where the financial openness nationally and internationally took various deep dimensions and effects that affected economic and financial systems worldwide. This study aims...

An overwhelming interest is growing in financial technology (henceforth: FinTech) in recent years. This contemporary financial phenomenon characterized basically by heavy use of technology in communication, some called it network economics. FinTech service encapsulates – but not restricted to...

This article empirically investigates the drives for participation in Jamey'ah (literally, Society) in Egypt as a kind of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) that agree in its general framework with Islamic principles. The article also evaluates the sample's experience with it in...

The study explores the relationship between the profitability (measured by ROI, ROE and NPR)and the stock market prices of the Petrochemical Industry Firms in Saudi Arabia during the period 2008-2015.We used the multiple regression model to estimate the relationship between the independent...

The study aims to determine the available strategic alternatives for commercial banks in Jordan, in order to face the challenges of European-Jordanian Partnership Agreement and World Trade Organisation. This is based on analysing the external and internal variables that influence these banks and...

This article empirically investigates the drives for participation inJamey'ah (literally, Society) in Egypt as types of Rotating Savings andCredit Associations (ROSCAs) that agree in their general frameworkwith Islamic principles. The article also evaluates the sample’sexperience in order to...

In this paper, we use a bivariate VAR-asymmetric-BEKK-GARCH model to examine returns, asymmetric volatility spillovers, and time-varying correlations among GCC stock markets (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain) and five global factors (Islamic stocks, oil, gold, bonds, and real...