Annual World Islamic Retail Banking Conference 2012

The history of Islamic finance goes back to more than 1,400 years ago. However, the world has just witnessed the application of modern Islamic finance only in the past 40 years with an unprecedented growth. Though representing only a small portion of the global assets, the Islamic finance market has been growing more than 30% annually and is set for continued growth.

Moreover, the Islamic banking geographies are stretching beyond the existing strongholds of a few countries in the Middle East and have now reached to Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

WIRBC now its fourth year has generated a lot of interest globally. This year WIRBC shall keep you engaged on topics weaved through the conference theme “Aspiring Innovations Across Horizons”.

Key Topics:

• Impact of Regulatory changes on Retail Banking Industry (UAE focused)

• Challenges of working with different Shariah structures and interpretations across geographies

• Creating a global Islamic customer proposition

• Challenges and Opportunities related to SME

• Product differentiation in Islamic Retail Banking

• Role of Islamic windows in growing Islamic retail business

• Failure of Islamic Investment Funds to capture retail customers

• Developing an innovative Islamic Wealth Management proposition

• Responsible Retail Financing in Shariah

• Innovation and the ability to balance the Shari’ah and commercial success

• Annual Open Fatwa Session - Panel