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       Posted on October 18th, 2011

Guiding Principles on Liquidity Risk Management for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services

The proposed document on liquidity risk management endeavours to delineate a set of guiding principles for the robust management of liquidity risk by IIFS and its vigorous supervision and monitoring by supervisory authorities, taking into consideration the specificities of IIFS and complementing relevant existing and emerging international standards and best practices. In keeping [...]


       Posted on October 18th, 2011

Guiding Principles on Stress Testing for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services

The proposed document on stress testing aims to provide a set of guiding principles intended to complement the existing international stress testing framework taking into consideration the specificities of IIFS as well as the lessons learned from the financial crisis so as to contribute to the soundness and stability of the IIFS particularly, [...]


       Posted on April 10th, 2011

IFSB Guidance Note in Connection with the IFSB Capital Adequacy Standard: The Determination of Alpha in the Capital Adequacy Ratio for Institutions (other than Insurance Institutions) offering only Islamic Financial Services (GN-4)

GN-4 complements the IFSB Standard on Capital Adequacy for Institutions offering Islamic Financial Services (IIFS) (IFSB-2), which was issued in December 2005. IFSB-2 proposes two methods to calculate capital adequacy ratios of IIFS. This Guidance Note aims to:

Provide a methodology to estimate the value of “alpha” to be used in the [...]


       Posted on April 10th, 2011

IFSB Guidance Note On The Recognition Of Ratings By external Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIS) On Takaful And retakaful Undertakings

The objective of GN-5 is to facilitate the emergence of generally accepted criteria for the recognition by national supervisory authorities and the wider financial community of credit ratings on Takāful and ReTakāful undertakings. It aims to:

Facilitate greater use of credit ratings on Takāful and ReTakāful undertakings;
Provide supervisory authorities with minimum standards and criteria [...]


       Posted on December 23rd, 2010

Guidance Note in Connection with the Risk Management and Capital Adequacy Standards: Commodity Murābahah Transactions (CMT)

In its 17th meeting in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Council of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) resolved to approve three documents that aim to further facilitate efforts towards enhancing the soundness and stability of the Islamic financial services industry. The three documents are:

Standard on Solvency [...]


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