Islamic Banking, A Potential Banking System for India

Islamic Shari'a Concepts governing Islamic Banking finance

Introduction It is submitted that accepting Islamic Banking within the western regulatory framework has encountered many impediments. A conventional bank is an institution that holds a banking license issued by banks' regulatory authorities which authorizes the chartered institution to conduct fundamental banking services such as receiving deposits, making loans, providing and saving account se...

Inputs and Outputs in Islamic Banking System

Evaluation of performance and productivity is among the fundamental concepts inmanagement. In order to achieve their goals, organizations must evaluate theirperformance. One of the important stages of performance appraisal is evaluation oforganization’s efficiency. Banks, financial and credit institutions are among the mostimportant organizations of every economic system, because every activity...

Determinants of Islamic Banking Profitability

The paper analyzes how bank characteristics and the overall financial environment affect the performance of Islamic banks. Utilizing bank level data, the study examines the performance indicators of Islamic banks’ worldwide during 1994-2001. A variety of internal and external banking characteristics were used to predict profitability and efficiency. In general, our analysis of determinants of I...

Banking Reform in India∗

Measured by share of deposits, 83 percent of the banking business in India is in the hands of state or nationalized banks, which are banks that are owned by the government, in some, increasingly less clear-cut way. Moreover, even the non-nationalized banks are subject to extensive regulations on who they can lend to, in addition to the more standard prudential regulations. Government control ov...

The Changing Dynamics of Islamic Banking