08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | ||||
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome Remarks Dr Kairat Kelimbetov - Governor, AIFC |
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09:10 – 09:40 | Keynote Address Khaled Al Aboodi – CEO, Islamic Corporation for the Development of Private Sector (ICD) |
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09:40 – 10:25 | Clearing the Roadblocks to Mainstream Islamic finance in the CIS The CIS countries are believed to hold a great potential for the industry but history tells us that large scale adoption is a slow transition, not a massive jump. What are the stepping stones that will be put in place to facilitate growth of Islamic finance in the region?
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10:25 – 10:55 | An Audience With Regional Financial Regulators A look at how the legal and regulatory framework has evolved and what further changes are anticipated to encourage growth of Islamic finance activities
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10:55 – 11:25 | Coffee & Networking | ||||
11:25 – 11:55 | Inward Investment: From Agriculture to Infrastructure... What investment opportunities the region’s got to offer the Islamic investment community in 2017? Why the CIS and not the rest of the world?
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11:55 – 12:25 | Driving Regional Econ Dlpment through Shariah-compliant Capital Raising How can IF facilitate development of regional resources in oil & gas, energy, agriculture and halal industry? How can CIS’s SMEs benefit from Shariah-compliant capital raising products?
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12:25 – 13:10 | This session looks into various approaches taken by established Islamic financial markets in setting up capital markets framework and discusses best ways of going ahead in the regional context.
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13:10 – 14:30 | Luncheon | ||||
14:30 – 15:15 | Human Capital as a Building Block to Industry Growth A dearth in human capital, and leadership in particular, is one of the biggest challenges emerging Islamic financial markets face. Developing a generation of Islamic bankers and intermediaries must therefore be embraced not only by academics but also industry leaders and financial regulators.
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15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee & Networking | ||||
15:30 – 17:30 | Workshop: Sukuk - An Alternative Asset Class With Sukuk gaining popularity globally, the Sharia’a-compliant asset class offers new opportunities to government entities, financial institutions and corporates to raise funds to meet their liquidity requirements by broadening their investor base. An industry that is growing rapidly, Islamic finance is expanding in jurisdictions globally with Sukuk being a key part of the expansion. Whether asset-backed or asset-based, recent innovations have created templates of various Sukuk structures, providing issuers with a flexible route of structuring to meet their requirements. Emirates NBD, Norton Rose Fulbright and Nasdaq Dubai are hosting a workshop in partnership with Astana International Financial Centre to cover key features and aspects of Sukuk and the Sukuk market. The session will provide an overview of how the Sukuk market has developed, explain some structures of Sukuk with case studies, and cover the process of issuing and listing Sukuk. |