As one of the world’s leading centres for Islamic finance, Bahrain hosts a wider variety of sharia-compliant financial services companies than perhaps anywhere else, and as in other areas in the Bahraini financial services industry these are aimed not only at the domestic economy but to customers from the region and beyond. As 2013 progressed,...
To what extent is consolidation a necessary strategy across the Islamic banking sector?
Has the SIO adapted its allocation and diversification strategies to account for the economic crisis?
How can Islamic financial institutions attain the critical mass necessary to better meet the needs of the real economy?
It is said frequently that mergers and acquisitions are difficult because of the culture of the Gulf – family owned businesses that are part of conglomerates are difficult to part with for founders who have an emotional connection to them, or who do not want others to equate their decision to sell with weakness. Another factor is that such owners...
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