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IFN North America Investment OnAir Roadshow 2022

Release Date: Monday 29th August 2022

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About the IFN North America Investment OnAir Roadshow

IFN North America Investment OnAir Roadshow 2022 offered an exclusive opportunity to benefit from detailed insight and analysis on developments and opportunities in Shariah compliant finance and investment.

The OnAir Roadshow provided market players with an opportunity to come together and discuss in detail how to advance the Islamic finance and investment industry in North America and the region.

Through panels featuring leading industry practitioners and market players, IFN OnAir Roadshow North America Investment 2022 focused on the recent developments in global Islamic finance and investment. We also drilled down into specific investment areas, including real estate finance and private equity activity, seeking to answer where and what Islamic investors required and to identify the rewarding opportunities on offer, and the role the market played.

The roadshow brought together key industry players, asset and fund managers and financial intermediaries in North America in another exciting IFN-led event, as they discussed the Shariah compliant landscape, ranging from innovative real estate deals to agriculture and livestock investments.

IFN North America Investment OnAir Roadshow 2022
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Roadshow Agenda

The Deployment of Shariah Compliant Capital into North America: Trends and Opportunities

What are the global investment flows and trends that continue to influence the deployment of Shariah compliant capital in north America today? What are recent significant developments in north American Shariah compliant private equity, and can we identify potential targets for private equity investment in the US market? What are the latest opportunities and demands for Shariah compliant direct investment into north American real estate markets? How significant is the private placement market in the North American Shariah compliant investment landscape? What structures are being employed to facilitate Shariah compliant investments in north America, and what investment types and asset classes are in favour? Can we identify geopolitical events, international developments and transactions that may influence future investment trends, and what are other potential areas for the deployment of Shariah compliant capital in the north American market? We seek the views of an expert panel.

Moderator:

Ashraf Gomma Ali, Managing director, Ihsan Advisory and Islamic Finance Expert (IFC – world bank group)

Panelists:

Dr Aamir A. Rehman, Chair, Innate Capital Partners
Aijaz Hussain, EVP Sales and Director, UIF Corp
Omar Kalair, Director UM Group Canada
Dr Scott Levy, Founder, Al Waseelah

Roadshow Speakers

Dr Aamir A Rehman

Dr Aamir A Rehman

Chair, Innate Capital Partners
Dr Aamir A Rehman
Dr Aamir A Rehman
Chair, Innate Capital Partners

Innate Capital Partners invests the personal capital of Dr Aamir A Rehman.

Dr Aamir has been engaged in values-aligned investment for over 20 years. He has served the finance community as an investor, advisor, author and educator. He is an investor in numerous financial services ventures. He seeks to invest in and support enterprises that help people align their finances with their values.

Dr Aamir’s corporate roles have included being a co-founder and managing director at Fajr Capital, a private equity group that has successfully invested over US$700 million in investments. He earlier served as the head of strategy for HSBC Amanah, the global Islamic finance business of the HSBC Group, and as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
Dr Aamir serves on the boards of directors of Fajr Capital Advisors, Dinar Standard and Shukr Investments. He also serves on the board of directors of the Mercer County Community College Foundation in Mercer County, New Jersey.
In addition to his work in investments, Dr Aamir has served as a senior advisor on Islamic finance to the United Nations Development Programme. He has also consulted the World Bank Group on the impact of Islamic finance on development and financial inclusion.

Dr Aamir is a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Business School, where he has co-taught a course on the foundations of private equity. His doctoral dissertation at Columbia University examined how private equity professionals learn from experience. He is the author of the books ‘Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players’ (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and ‘Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States’ (McGraw-Hill, 2007), among other publications.

Dr Aamir hold a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He further holds a doctoral degree in education from Columbia University.

Aijaz Hussain

Aijaz Hussain

EVP Sales and Director, UIF Corp
Aijaz Hussain
Aijaz Hussain
EVP Sales and Director, UIF Corp

Aijaz Hussain has worked in the field of investments and Islamic banking for almost 25 years. For the first seven years, Aijaz worked with UBS and Morgan Stanley (formerly Smith Barney) in the area of investment management. His areas of specialty include Islamic investments, hedge funds, and managed accounts. As part of the Private Client Group, he consulted high-net-worth clients in investment and hedging strategies, charitable trusts and estate planning.

In 2003, Aijaz joined Guidance Residential, a then-start-up Islamic financing company and played a major role in its growth into a multibillion-dollar financing company.

On the 1st April 2011, Aijaz joined University Islamic Financial (UIF), a Michigan-based Islamic banking company in the capacity of vice-president of national sales. As the head of sales, his responsibilities include sales management, implementing UIF’s growth strategy and improving overall efficiency within the organization. In January 2013, Aijaz was appointed to the board of directors at UIF for his contribution to the company’s success. Aijaz has conducted over 500 seminars and written numerous articles on Islamic financing over the years.

Ashraf Gomma Ali

Ashraf Gomma Ali

Managing director, Ihsan Advisory and Islamic finance expert (IFC - world bank group)
Ashraf Gomma Ali
Ashraf Gomma Ali
Managing director, Ihsan Advisory and Islamic finance expert (IFC - world bank group)

Ashraf Gomma Ali is the managing director of Ihsan Advisory which works at the intersection of Islamic finance/Shariah/SDGs and positive impact. He believes that these areas share a natural connection and that the future of Islamic banking depends on truly embracing these concepts and integrating them in the spirit of Ihsan (spiritual beauty and perfection).

Ashraf is a leading international Shariah advisor who has worked in Shariah supervisory positions for over 15 years in nine different countries around the world in North America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Maryland (US), a Bachelor of Law degree in Shariah from Umm Al-Qura University (Mecca, Saudi Arabia) and a Master’s degree in Islamic finance practice from INCEIF (Malaysia). He is also an internationally certified Shariah auditor and advisor with AAOIFI and a registered Shariah advisor with the Malaysian Securities Commission.

Ashraf has advised on billions of dollars of projects worldwide including extensively advising on project financing, Islamic debt securities (Sukuk), corporate finance and treasury products. He has served as a Shariah board member to both traditional and digital Islamic banks. He also has a keen interest in the intersection of ESG and sustainability with Islamic finance and was part of the UN project to draft the section on Islamic banking in the UNEP FI Principles of Sustainable Banking. He currently serves as an Islamic banking, ESG and sustainability consultant based in Istanbul. Ashraf has recently joined Phi Wallet as a co-founder and CFO. Phi Wallet is an Islamic fintech which seeks to empower Shariah sensitive investors to protect and preserve their wealth through physical gold ownership and other real assets.

Omar Kalair

Omar Kalair

Director UM Group Canada
Omar Kalair
Omar Kalair
Director UM Group Canada

In 2004, Omar Kalair founded UM, which became Canada’s premier Islamic financial Institution as the first Canadian member of the IFSB and AAOIFI. In 2005, UM received a Mudarabah financing facility that reached US$120 million to finance residential (Musharakah) households. Hundreds of these families came to UM with a net worth as low as US$40,000 to purchase a home that many today value over US$1 million. A study quantified over US$200 million in increase in the net worth of these families due to UM.

Kalair was recognized among CIC’s top 20 Muslim business leaders at the Canadian parliament. He was presented the ‘Islamic Finance Business Leadership Award –- N America’ by World Finance and awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award by the Canadian Islamic Chamber of Commerce. His alma mater, Wilfrid Laurier University celebrating its 100-year anniversary, selected Kalair as one of the ‘Top 100 Alumni of Achievement’ from close to 100,000 alumni. Kalair has been admitted in an Islamic economics PhD program.

Kalair has engineered, launched, marketed and retailed many Islamic finance products, some of which were offered in Canada for the first time in partnership with institutions. Many regulators in such countries as Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, Russia, Malaysia, etc, have engaged with UM. UM formulated an international Shariah advisory board that included Sheikh Nizam Yacuby, Dr Aznan Hassan and Mufti Dr Zubair Usmani.

Kalair has spoken at Islamic finance conferences across the world including: Boston(Harvard), New York, Toronto, Montreal, London, Istanbul, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Manama, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Muscat, Karachi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and more.

Dr Scott Levy

Dr Scott Levy

Founder, Al Waseelah
Dr Scott Levy
Dr Scott Levy
Founder, Al Waseelah

Dr Scott Levy is the founder of Al Waseelah, an award-winning Shariah compliant Sukuk issuance platform which includes structuring, arranging, originating and listing Sukuk. Dr Scott founded Al Waseelah in 2017 as a tech-savvy, cost-efficient way to creating Shariah compliant instruments; democratization for both issuers and investors.

Al Waseelah is dedicated to the global growth of Islamic capital markets through its comprehensive runway for international capital-raising, and its active participation in global dialogue through Islamic Finance news and the International Islamic Financial Market. Al Waseelah is at the forefront of ESG/SDG integration to Sukuk, being one of the Islamic finance institutions to commit to the Principles for Responsible Investment, and technological innovation, using the power of blockchain to bring transparency and accountability to each transaction. Al Waseelah has executed transactions across asset classes and currencies including green Sukuk Wakalah, corporate Sukuk, Mudarabah private equity liquidity structures and multicurrency liquidity management products.

With boots on the ground in London, Tallinn, Miami, Monaco, Dubai and Singapore, Dr Scott leads Al Waseelah’s global offering underpinned by a talented, dynamic, global, multicultural and multilingual team. Dr Scott is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and the Worshipful Company of Musicians, a member of Lincoln’s Inn and a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Advisory Board

Khurram Agha

Khurram Agha

Founder and CEO, Aghaz Investments
Khurram Agha
Khurram Agha
Founder and CEO, Aghaz Investments

Khurram Agha is the founder and CEO of Aghaz Investments, a US-based start-up providing wealth management solutions for Muslims. Khurram graduated from McGill University, Canada in 2001 and from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 2016. He worked at Microsoft Corporation for 17 years and Oracle for two years in various software leadership roles, before switching careers to entrepreneurship and Islamic finance. In particular, he is passionate about understanding common financial problems and needs faced by Muslims across the world and creating modern, Islamically compliant, fintech solutions for those problems.

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MULTILATERAL STRATEGIC PARTNERS

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD)

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The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is a multilateral development financial institution and is part of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group.

The ICD was established in November 1999 to support the economic development of its member countries through the provision of finance for private sector projects, promoting competition and entrepreneurship, providing advisory services to governments and private companies and encouraging cross-border investments.

The ICD has an authorized capital of US$4 billion. Currently, the shareholders of the ICD are the IDB (50%), 53 Islamic countries (30%) and five public financial institutions (20%).

ICD mandate and objectives

The ICD fosters sustainable economic growth in its 53 member countries by:

  • Financing private sector investment
  • Mobilizing capital in the international financial markets, and
  • Providing advisory services to business and governments.

The ICD selects the financing projects based on their contribution to economic development considering factors such as job creation, Islamic finance development, contribution to exports, etc. The ICD also provides advisory services to governments and private sector groups on policies designed to encourage the establishment, expansion and modernization of private enterprises, the development of capital markets, best management practices and to enhance the role of the market economy. The ICD operates to complement the activities of the IDB in member countries.

The ICD is rated ‘AA/FQ’ by Fitch Ratings, ‘Aa3/P-1’ by Moody’s Investors Service and ‘A+’ by Standard & Poor’s.

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Tel: (966-12) 6361400; (966-12) 6441644

Fax: (966-12) 644 4427

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Website: www.icd-ps.org

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The Islamic Corporation for The Insurance Of Investment And Export Credit (ICIEC)

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Established 26 years ago in 1994 as a multilateral institution and a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) was tasked to promote cross-border trade and foreign direct investments in its member countries.

The ICIEC’s mission is to make trade and investment between member countries and the world more secure through the Shariah compliant risk mitigation tool. Its vision is to be recognized as the preferred enabler of trade and investment for sustainable economic development in member countries.

The ICIEC is the only multilateral export credit and investment insurance corporation in the world that provides Shariah-compliant insurance and reinsurance solutions.

Today, the ICIEC supports trade and investment flows in 47 member countries spanning across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Its target clients are corporates (both exporters and investors), banks and financial institutions as well as export credit agencies and insurers.

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International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation

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The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) is a member of the IDB Group. It was established with the purpose of advancing trade among OIC member countries, which would ultimately contribute to the overarching goal of improving the socioeconomic conditions of the people across the world. The ITFC commenced operations in January 2008 and has since consolidated all trade finance businesses that used to be handled by various windows within the IDB Group. Earning an ‘A1’ rating from Moody’s Investors Service reflects the ITFC’s efficiency in service delivery by responding swiftly to customer needs in a market-driven business environment.

Since 2008, the ITFC has provided more than US$40.2 billion of trade financing to OIC member countries, making it the leading provider of trade solutions for the needs of OIC member countries. With a mission of being a catalyst for trade development among OIC member countries and beyond, the ITFC helps entities in member countries gain better access to trade finance and provides them with the necessary trade-related capacity-building tools, which would enable them to successfully compete in the global market.

 

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Linkedin: International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)

Tel: +966 12 646 8337
Fax: +966 12 637 1064
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.itfc-idb.org/en

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IsDB Group Business Forum (THIQAH)

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The Islamic Development Bank Group Business Forum (THIQAH) is the window of the IsDB Group that facilitates contact and coordination between entities concerned of the IsDB Group and private sector firms and related institutions in IsDB Group member countries. The main objective of THIQAH is to establish a unique platform for effective dialogue, cooperation and inclusive partnership for business leaders committed to partnering in promising investment opportunities. Through facilitation and catalyst roles, THIQAH will be leveraging the IsDB Group’s resources to offer necessary services and confidence to investors and to establish strategic partnerships with the leaders of the private sector. The primary focus will be on maximizing cross-border investment among member countries to be supported by IsDB Group’s financial products and services. (www.idbgbf.org)

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PARTNERS

DDCAP Group

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Founded in 1998 and headquartered in London, with an office in Dubai and a presence in both Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, DDCAP is a leading provider of asset facilitation services and financial technology and system solutions across a diverse range of Shariah compliant products, asset classes and instruments in both the primary and secondary markets. DDCAP’s wholly-owned subsidiaries include DD&Co and DDGI. DDCAP has an extensive track record within the Islamic finance industry, employing over 35 professionals with broad and complementary skill sets drawn from diverse financial industry backgrounds, focused principally on providing service to Islamic financial market participants around the world. DDCAP has its own Shariah supervisory board comprising esteemed Shariah scholars from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Kuwait. DDCAP’s multi-award-winning Shariah compliant ETHOS Asset Facilitation Platform is a bespoke, real-time trade and post-trade services platform providing 24-hour coverage, enabling clients worldwide to purchase from a diverse asset inventory, including commodities, via a secure, web-based portal.

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IdealRatings

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IdealRatings was incorporated in 2006 in San Francisco with a corporate objective to provide SRI/ESG and Shariah compliant solutions to ethical investors and enable them to identify such instruments across different asset classes in the global market. IdealRatings serves clients in over 30 countries with a range of capital market solutions including:

  • Equities – A web-based platform covering over 40,000 stocks, where fund managers can screen equities using different, custom-built ESG/SRI/Responsible Investments and Shariah rulebooks or guidelines. This solution caters to different purification calculation methodologies with a comprehensive set of reports for fund managers to manage their portfolio.
  • REITs – Global coverage of all listed REITs that could be screened in accordance with different standard Shariah rulebooks or guidelines.
  • Indexes – Co-branded and jointly marketed by FTSE-Russell Indexes and a separate series with Thomson Reuters for the global markets, designed for fund management and investment benchmarking. In addition, IdealRatings is able to provide custom-built indexes for the fund management industry.
  • Sukuk – A unique solution which includes the global Sukuk and a pioneering Sukuk-screening solution that enables fund managers to customize their Sukuk selection in accordance to their Shariah rulebook, guidelines or investment preference, and
  • Brokerage – The solution provides broking houses the ability to screen global equity markets, a technical analysis of the markets and equities, buy/sell/hold recommendations and purification amounts.
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CONSULTANCY PARTNER

Redmoney Consulting

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Launched in April 2021, Redmoney Consulting is a new and highly focused advisory firm focusing on global Islamic, Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Finance. Redmoney Consulting is a logical extension of REDmoney Group, the Islamic finance industry’s leading media house with a truly global audience. In addition to Islamic finance, the Group has steadily increased its coverage of the green and sustainable finance sector as the two markets continue to converge. Redmoney Consulting provides an expansive service allowing its consultants to provide advisory and consulting services at the highest level for the most discerning of clients.

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