Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities

With the recent global financial crisis and the many scandals that have happened of late, there is a need for an ethical finance system. Reports have mentioned and concluded that Islamic financial institutions were the least to be affected, with more than US$800 billion worth of deposits and investm...

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Main Author: Hamzah, Shariza
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24864/
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description With the recent global financial crisis and the many scandals that have happened of late, there is a need for an ethical finance system. Reports have mentioned and concluded that Islamic financial institutions were the least to be affected, with more than US$800 billion worth of deposits and investments lodged, Islamic banks, mutual funds, insurance schemes, and Islamic branches of conventional banks (Hesse et al, 2008). Would it be fair then to say that Islamic finance is ethical finance? There are many initiatives done by various entities; for instance the Equator Principles (EP) by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) by the United Nation Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), both taking the environment, social and governance (ESG) issues into consideration. This project attempts to analyse whether Islamic Finance satisfy all themes in the need of ethics in finance; market, industry, management and people (Boatright, 1999) by making comparative analysis between EP, PRI and Shari'ah Principles (the basis of Islamic Finance). Taking a step further, the analysis looks upon the Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia, and their stakeholder responsibilities in marketplace, workplace, environment and community.
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spelling nottingham-248642018-02-02T11:26:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24864/ Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities Hamzah, Shariza With the recent global financial crisis and the many scandals that have happened of late, there is a need for an ethical finance system. Reports have mentioned and concluded that Islamic financial institutions were the least to be affected, with more than US$800 billion worth of deposits and investments lodged, Islamic banks, mutual funds, insurance schemes, and Islamic branches of conventional banks (Hesse et al, 2008). Would it be fair then to say that Islamic finance is ethical finance? There are many initiatives done by various entities; for instance the Equator Principles (EP) by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) by the United Nation Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), both taking the environment, social and governance (ESG) issues into consideration. This project attempts to analyse whether Islamic Finance satisfy all themes in the need of ethics in finance; market, industry, management and people (Boatright, 1999) by making comparative analysis between EP, PRI and Shari'ah Principles (the basis of Islamic Finance). Taking a step further, the analysis looks upon the Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia, and their stakeholder responsibilities in marketplace, workplace, environment and community. 2011 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24864/1/4129672_Shariza_Hamzah_Is_Islamic_Finance_ethical_finance.pdf Hamzah, Shariza (2011) Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Islamic finance ethical finance Equator Principles Principle of Responsible Investments stakeholder responsibilities
spellingShingle Islamic finance
ethical finance
Equator Principles
Principle of Responsible Investments
stakeholder responsibilities
Hamzah, Shariza
Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title_full Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title_fullStr Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title_full_unstemmed Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title_short Is Islamic Finance ethical finance? Principles and Stakeholder Responsibilities
title_sort is islamic finance ethical finance? principles and stakeholder responsibilities
topic Islamic finance
ethical finance
Equator Principles
Principle of Responsible Investments
stakeholder responsibilities
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24864/