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Opportunity Knocks Malaysia as an International Centre for Islamic Capital Markets

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How can the performance and impact of Malaysian Islamic capital markets and Sukuk be further enhanced? How significant is the re-emergence of the regulatory capital Sukuk market for the region’s Islamic financial institutions? Can more be done to supply the market with high-quality liquid assets, and to what extent would this contribute to building a yield curve unique to Islamic issuers? How do we deploy Sukuk to further support banking and non-banking financial businesses? What are the potential opportunities offered by tokenization in Islamic capital markets? Finally, how can green and sustainability linked Sukuk and other innovations flourish?

Moderator:
Nitish Bhojnagarwala
, Senior Vice-President, Financial Institutions Group, Moody’s Ratings

Panelists:
Ahmet Tacer
, Capital Markets and Investment Banking Director, Golden Global Investment Bank
Frederik Wijsenbeek, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Vemi Capital
Dr Muhammad Issyam Ismail, Assistant Vice-President, Islamic Wholesale Banking, CIMB Islamic Bank
Yasir Gorpe, Senior Investment Specialist – Fund Manager, Islamic Development Bank

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