| From Arabnews.com: Khaled Mohammed Al-Aboodi is a member of a new breed of Islamic development bankers. As CEO and general manager of the Jeddah-based Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector funding arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, he has a mandate which potentially is as important as its parent, especially in linking between Islamic finance and the real economy through supporting Islamic financial institutions to extend financing to small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
On his watch, the ICD has been transformed from a predictable and modest institution, to one setting the Islamic finance agenda in the member countries in which it operates.............................................Full Article: Source
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