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Islamic banking is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the financial market place, largely driven by the new wealth of the Middle East and by the need for Muslims, representing one-fifth of the world’s population, to find Islamically acceptable financial products.
At the centre of the demand for expertise in Islamic financing lies the long term wealth represented by the future oil and gas earnings of the Middle East. The oil and gas reserves for several of the large Middle East countries are conservatively estimated to last for well over 100 years, a figure which is being continuously revised upwards. The wealth of the region is increasingly being channelled into Islamically structured financing.
Islamic financial institutions currently operate in more than 75 countries with assets exceeding US$ 400 billion. This represents a 45 fold growth rate since 1982. However Islamic finance, based as it is on the fact that financial activities have to be interest free, poses many challenges for anyone seeking to unravel its workings.
However the pace at which Islamic banking and finance training courses are being developed, to match this growth in demand, is slow, very slow, with the availability of world class quality training in the subject area lagging far behind that of demand.
In order to fill this gap the Securities and Investment Institute (SII) have created a new qualification the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ).
Islamic Banking Training are offering Training courses for the IFQ.
In order to ensure that staff can improve their chances of gaining the IFQ Islamic Banking Training have launched a specialist training programme. The training courses listed below are designed to break to provide a thorough revision of the main contents of the syllabus.
Special attention is paid to the indicative exam questions listed in the SII workbook.
Course Director
BRIAN KETTELL is the JOINT EDITOR of the SII IFQ Workbook and has been actively involved in the development of the IFQ from its inception.
Brian has recently returned from working in Bahrain as an Adviser to the Bahrain Monetary Agency, now the Central Bank of Bahrain. His work involved him in pioneering many of Bahrain’s recent innovations in Islamic banking. Bahrain prides itself on having the world’s largest concentration of Islamic banks and financial institutions.
While working at the BMA Brian wrote Islamic Banking and Finance in the Kingdom of Bahrain which received very favourable reviews.
Most recently he has published Islamic Sukuk: A Definitive Guide to Islamic Structured Finance.
TUTOR SUPPORT
All participants in the training/revision courses receive essential preliminary reading and full ON-LINE course support.
If you have any queries please contact the course tutor, Brian Kettell on brian.kettell@islamicbankingcourses.com .
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