From Independent: Where did it all go wrong? It was supposed to be the new frontier for the giant high-street banks, attracting Britain’s two-million-plus Muslims. Many members of this prosperous minority had felt excluded from the British banking system and its zero-sum game of maximising profit and charging interest – a practice forbidden under Islamic law, or Shariah.
As a result, charities have long estimated that the proportion of Muslims who were unbanked – who didn’t have a standard current account – was higher than in the overall population……………………………………….Full Article: Source