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Website. pif .gov .sa. The Public Investment Fund ( PIF; Arabic: صندوق الاستثمارات العامة) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of US$ 925 billion ( £ 726.3 billion). [2] It was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing ...
While the original Islamic banking proponents hoped profit-loss sharing (PLS) would be the primary mode of finance replacing interest-based loans, long-term financing with profit-and-loss-sharing mechanisms is "far riskier and costlier" than the long term or medium-term lending of the conventional banks, according to critics such as economist Tarik M. Yousef.
AmBank Group was founded in 1975 as Persian - Malaysian Development Bank by Hussain Najadi, the Founder. Tan Sri Azman Hashim, the current group chairman, has an interest of 14.01% in AMMB Holdings as at 30 June 2014. The single largest shareholder in AMMB Holdings is Australia's ANZ Group with a stake of 23.78% as at 30 June 2014.
The Qatar Investment Authority ( QIA; Arabic: جهاز قطر للإستثمار) is Qatar 's sovereign wealth fund. [2] The QIA was founded by the State of Qatar in 2005 to strengthen the country's economy by diversifying into new asset classes. In October 2023, the QIA has an estimated $475 billion of assets under management.
Investcorp is a global manager of alternative investment products, for private [2] and institutional [3] clients. Founded in Bahrain in 1982, the firm has offices in United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, India, China, Japan, and Singapore. Investcorp's principal client base is in the six countries of the Gulf ...
Maybank is the largest public listed company on Bursa Malaysia, the Malaysian stock exchange, with a market capitalisation of US$23.7 billion as of 31 December 2019. Maybank's Islamic banking arm, Maybank Islamic, is the largest Islamic bank in ASEAN and Malaysia in terms of assets, and was named 2020’s Global Islamic Bank of the Year by The ...
The Islamic Development Bank ( Arabic: البنك الإسلامي للتنمية, abbreviated as IsDB) is a multilateral development finance institution that is focused on Islamic finance for infrastructure development and located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. [1] There are 57 shareholding member states with the largest single shareholder being ...
Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) are one of the most prestigious awards in Islamic banking and finance. [citation needed] Other prestigious awards are Islamic Development Bank Prize in Islamic Banking and Finance (also known as "IsDB Prize"), and The Royal Award For Islamic Finance, founded by the government of Malaysia. GIFA was founded by ...