| The Kuala Lumpur-based International Shariah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA), the Shariah research entity of Bank Negara Malaysia, the central bank, has embarked on an ambitious strategic plan for 2012 which focuses on strengthening its global reach, further enhancing the quality of its activities and increasing its connectivity with market players and industry stakeholders.
Since its establishment in 2008 with the vision of becoming "the Premier Shariah Research Centre in Islamic Finance", ISRA has lived in the shadows of its sister organization INCEIF (the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance), the Islamic finance education arm of Bank Negara Malaysia, which has assumed a much higher and aggressive profile...............................................Full Article: Source
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