Banking failures and financial Instability: Time for a Sharia-compliant monetary system?
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing, First Floor
- Room
- SOAS Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT)
About this event
The SOAS-Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Public Lecture on Islamic Finance.
Meet the speakers
Mr Richard Thomas, Managing Director, Sustainable Economy Ltd; Former CEO, Gatehouse Bank Ltd
Richard Thomas will discuss the role that Islamic finance can play alongside decentralized finance, green finance and ethical finance, without succumbing to the banking failures and global financial instability of the conventional financial system.
Moderator: Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack, Senior Lecturer in Transnational Financial Law, SOAS University of London; Chair, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS University of London
Closing remarks: Dr Recep Senturk, Dean, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
This event is held in cooperation with:
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- International Shari'ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA)
