Thursday, 2 March 2017

What Are Bonds?

When people talk about financial things, you tend to hear the term stocks and bonds thrown around, but are they the same thing? The short answer is no.

The Islamic Banking Model

The origin of Islamic banking dates to the very beginning of Islam in the seventh century. The prophet Muhammad's first wife, Khadija, was a merchant, and he acted as an agent for her business, using many of the same principles used in contemporary Islamic banking.