The drastic realignment of international alliances leaves vulnerable Muslims with few powerful friends. US President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan, a promise to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an even-handed manner, not only inflicts further humiliation and suffering on the Palestinian people but also grants Israel’s politically powerful settler movement its every desire in its…
A teacher coerced into giving classes in Xinjiang internment camps has described her forced sterilisation at the age of 50, under a government campaign to suppress birth rates of women from Muslim minorities.
Sophie Pétronin, a 75-year old charity worker and the last French hostage in the world has been freed alongside ex-Malian opposition leader and two Italian hostages. Crowds gathered to welcome them on Thursday night in the Mali capital Bamako.
IslamicMarkets Ltd, an established learning and market intelligence provider for Islamic financial and commercial markets (with offices in London and Kuala Lumpur), has reportedly acquired additional funding from the DDCAP Group.
LIDL is giving out Halloween-themed free doughnuts through its new loyalty scheme app – here’s how to get one. The freebie is for one Halloween themed ring doughnut, which is coated in an orange glaze and topped with chocolate triangles.
Islamic Relief Worldwide has appointed a new board of trustees after it emerged that a second board member had posted antisemitic comments on Facebook. A statement by the charity said the “offensive and unacceptable” posts by Almoutaz Tayara “in no way reflect the views and core values of the organisation”, and he would play no further part in its governance.
How are Islamic banks affected by the pandemic? What are the specific challenges and opportunities they face? Here are a few takeaways from an April 21 online panel discussion organised by UK-based financial data firm Refinitiv.
The global Islamic finance market is growing moderately, because of the strong investments in the Halal sector, infrastructure, and Sukuk bonds. In 2018, Brunei hosted the Brunei Islamic Capital Market (BICAM) Conference, at the Rizqun International Hotel where more than a dozen international experts in Islamic finance met, deliberated and raised awareness on growing Islamic…
In recent months, the focus of the cryptocurrency markets has been on the Decentralized Finance or DeFi space and decentralized exchanges. One of the biggest decentralized exchanges is Uniswap, and its token UNI was recently listed on Coinbase Pro and Binance.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Uniswap’s governance protocol token UNI went live on Ethereum earlier today. The community showed immediate support for the new token with Uniswap’s Twitter announcement garnering over 1.2 thousand likes in the first 90 minutes.