Table of Contents:
  • Supervision of Islamic banks and Basel II: the regulatory challenge / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim
  • The nature of risks in Islamic banking
  • Banking and the risk environment / Hennie van Greuning and Zamir Iqbal
  • Risk characteristics of Islamic products: implications for risk measurement and supervision / Dr. V. Sundararajan
  • Capital structure and risk in Islamic financial services / Wafik Grais and Abina Kulathunga
  • Inherent risk: Credit and market risks / Abdullah Haron and John Lee Hin Hock
  • Operational risk exposures of Islamic banks / Simon Archer and Abdullah Haron
  • Law and Islamic finance: an interactive analysis / Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo and Michael J.T. McMillen
  • Supervisory implications of Islamic finance in the current regulatory environment / Hari Bhambra
  • Capital Adequacy
  • Risk and the need for capital / Charles Freeland and Steven Friedman
  • Measuring risk for capital adequacy: the issue of profit-sharing investment accounts / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim
  • Measuring operational risk / Elisabeth Jackson-Moore
  • Supervisory implications of Islamic banking: a supervisor's perspective / Toby Fiennes
  • Securitization and capital markets
  • Securitization in Islamic finance / Abdulkader Thomas
  • The role of capital markets in ensuring Islamic financial liquidity / Stella Cox
  • Regulating Islamic capital markets / Robert Gray and Arshad Ismail
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate governance for banks / Hamid Yunis
  • Specific corporate governance issues in Islamic banks / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim
  • Corporate governance and supervision: Basel Pillar 2 / Chizu Nakajima and Barry A.K. Rider
  • Transparency and market discipline: Basel Pillar 3 / Daud Abdullah (David Vicary)
  • Human resource management of Islamic banks: responses to conceptual and technical challenges / Volker Nienhaus
  • Concluding remarks / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim.