| Brunei has long identified the Islamic finance as a sector that can be developed to its advantage, both to serve the banking needs of its domestic economy and as an avenue for economic development at the international level.
To achieve these objectives, however, it will need to step up investments in human resources. Having first launched the Islamic finance option more than 20 years ago, sharia-compliant banking now accounts for around 40 per cent of the local market, a figure some experts believe will rise to 60 per cent by 2017...............................................Full Article: Source
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