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• Oman’s first Mena-focused Islamic fund to be launched next week
• Bankers urge Islamic banks to develop their own financial reporting standard
• Sharjah Islamic Bank launches ‘Zone’ package for companies in Al Hamriya Free Zone
• Noor Islamic Bank launches reality mobile banking app
• Japan: Food producers eye Islamic market
• MMC gets nod for RM470mln sukuk wakalah
• CBB’s monthly Sukuk Al-Ijara oversubscribed by 220pct
• UM gets RM239,000 cash rebate from Takaful Malaysia
• Financial market will grow strong with strong govt: CIMB Islamic

• CMA to prepare rules for takaful insurance
• Opalesque Exclusive: Amiri finally launches first Shariah-compliant fund of hedge funds
• Islamic hedge funds take another leap forward
• Al Safi to foray into private equity
• Dubai seeds Sharia-compliant hedge funds
• Middle East share of hedge fund assets to rise 30% to US$194 billion by 2013
• Al Safi Trust named Best Islamic Alternative Investment Product for 2009
• PSE eyes $1.4-trillion Muslim funds with shariah-compliant stocks
• Arab Bank lowers interest rates on housing loans
• Shariah Capital CEO receives award at Hedge Funds World Middle East Conference

• Natwest introduces halal mortgage (1)
• Industry specialists debate impact of global financial crisis on Islamic finance (1)
• MAS to launch Islamic bond facility early 2009 (1)
• Top 500 Islamic Financial Institutions (1)
• Mortgage sector will have to do a balancing act (1)
• Islamic finance growth will be better than the country's, says professor (1)
• Takaful Re BBB stable rating confirmed by S&P (1)
• Saniora discusses with Arab Finance House releasing Islamic bonds (1)
• Standarization of Islamic industry sought (1)
• Pakistan: Share of Islamic banking increasing (1)

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