Session 1: Global Shariah Compliant Asset Management and Islamic Capital-Raising

• Inflation, a rising interest rate environment and the implications for potential issuers of Islamic capital market products.
• What do these factors also mean for the outlook of the global Shariah compliant investment community?
• Evolving Shariah compliant fund and collective investment schemes; ETFs, Sukuk, leasing and trade finance funds.
• The outlook for Shariah compliant direct real estate investment and private equity.
• Beyond listed Sukuk: what are the opportunities presented by the private placement market?
• What options do hybrid or combination Sukuk offer issuers, particularly in asset-heavy industries such as oil and gas, and aviation?
• How do Tier 1 and Tier 2 Sukuk offer financial institutions a flexible, efficient and user-friendly way of satisfying regulatory capital requirements, and what do perpetual Sukuk structures offer such issuers?
• Developing the global Sukuk market: regulation, hedging, risk and liquidity management instruments.
• Pertinent operational issues for the Islamic capital markets: solutions surrounding the transition to risk-free rates.
• Latest thinking on the application of the Murabahah structure to capital markets, with relevance to AAOIFI standards.
• With the demise of LIBOR, is SOFR a good alternative for the Islamic capital market?
• The potential for regional issuance hubs.