Invitation to Islamic Finance: Opportunities for Ireland Conference, Dec 4th

Dublin City University and INCEIF, the Global University of Islamic Finance, Malaysia are delighted to invite finance professionals and interested parties to the one-day conference:

Islamic Finance: The Opportunities for Ireland on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 taking place in DCU Business School's Centre for Executive Programmes. 

The purpose of the conference is to introduce Islamic Finance and show Ireland’s financial community how to capitalise on the opportunities it affords. The conference will show:

• Irish corporates and the Irish State how to issue Shari’a-compliant bonds;
• Banks how to provide banking services in a Shari’a-compliant manner;
• Fund managers how to service Islamic funds;
• Insurers and reinsurers how to provide their services to Islamic clients;
• and Central Bankers how to regulate Islamic banking and insurance.

Additional context on the event can be found here.

Delivered by Professor Volker Nienhaus (in picture) who received his doctorate in economics in 1979 from the University of Bochum.  He was Professor of Economics at Trier (1989-1990) and Bochum (1990-2004) and President of the University of Marburg from 2004 to 2010. He became a Visiting Professor at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK) in 2010.

Prof Nienhaus was Visiting Scholar at the University of Malaya under the Securities Commission Malaysia Islamic Capital Market Programme (2010/11) and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies of Qatar Foundation, Doha (2011). He has also served as consultant to the Islamic Financial Services Board. He is Adjunct Professor at INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Programme Details

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee

9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Why Islamic finance? Its religious basis: Islamic commercial jurisprudence

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00 p.m. Islamic banking, and the use of the 'nominate contracts' for working capital finance and longer-term capital investment

12:00 - 12:30 p.m. Q&A

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Islamic consumer finance and home purchase plans; Islamic funds

3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30-5:00 p.m. Islamic securitisation (sukuk); Islamic insurance (takaful)

5:00-5:30 p.m. Q&A

Booking

Programme fee: €300 (including all materials and refreshments). Directions for arriving at DCU are available at here.

Places may be reserved by emailing Ruth.Finnegan@dcu.ie or by calling Ruth on (01) 700 8106.

Direct payment to secure your place is available here .