Essential of Islamic Finance, Spring 2011, Iqra University, Gulshan Campus

Topics for final presentation |Wednesday Group

Group Number / Topic / Instructions
1 / How to obtain a house from an Islamic bank? / 1. Explain how a person can obtain a house from an Islamic bank?
2. Mention the mode of financing used in market;
3. Mention some calculation and use housing finance product of different banks to strengthen your views;
2 / Sukuk – Islamic bands,
its modality and
functions / 1. Explain what Sukuk are? What are its modalities and do they function?
2. How it is used and for what financial needs do they work?
3. What modes of financing are used for structuring Sukuk?
3 / Islamic asset
management companies
– How do they
functions? / 1. What is an asset management company? And what is an Islamic asset management company?
2. How an Islamic asset management company work?
3. Islamic asset management companies Vs Islamic fund management companies, what is the core difference between Islamic Management Companies and Conventional Asset Management Companies?
4 / Car financing in
Islamic banks –
methodology and ways of financing / 1. Explain how a person can obtain a car from an Islamic bank?
2. Mention the mode of financing used in market;
3. Mention some calculation and use car finance product of different banks to strengthen your views;
5 / Islamic interbank
dealings – How it
work? / 1. What is Interbank market? How Islamic banks can deal in interbank market?
2. Relation with another Islamic bank and with another conventional bank, how it is managed?
3. Use of interbank rate and it status;
6 / AAOIFI Shari'ah
Standards – what are those standards and how it function? / 1. What are AAOIFI Shari'ah Standards? What important role do they play? What critical function do they perform?
2. Role of these standards in Pakistani market;
7 / Deposit products of an Islamic bank – how it work and what structures are used? / 1. What is meant by deposit products?
2. How deposit products work in an Islamic bank? What mode of financing are used?
3. Submit summary of different deposit products of at least three Islamic banks and present
a comparison;
8 / Trade finance – how an
Islamic bank finance it? / 1. What is Trade finance? How an Islamic bank finance trade?
2. Please explain various functions done through Trade Finance Department of any bank;
3. Discuss Islamic alternative products;
9 / Infrastructure financing
– How can an Islamic bank play its role?
What are possible ways of financing? / 1. What is Infrastructure financing? How can an Islamic bank play its role in developments of infrastructure?
2. What are possible ways of infrastructure financing for an Islamic bank?
3. Present an example from Pakistani market;
10 / IFAS 1 and IFAS 2 / 1. Need of Separate accounting standard for Islamic Financial Industry?
2. What are the IFAS Standards? What important role do they play? What critical function do they perform?
2. implementations of these standards in Pakistani market;