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GROWING ECO-CONCERNS EXPAND DEMAND FOR USED COOKING OIL WORLDWIDE
Growing environmental concerns and rising awareness of sustainable energy resources is driving considerable growth in the global used cooking oil (UCO) market. Production is also being boosted by recent technological advancements in UCO processing, expanding supplies from the rapidly evolving foodservice industry and initiatives by various governments to promote UCO for industrial use.…
NEW MERGED INDONESIAN ISLAMIC BANK SEEMS TO UNLEASH POTENTIAL IN WORLD’S LARGEST MUSLIM MARKET
Despite its promising outlook and early results, Indonesia’s largest Islamic bank has its work cut out to achieve economies of scale needed to compete globally and even at home, where knowledge of sharia-compliance banking systems remains poor, say analysts and officials.…
FINTECH PROMISES TO OPEN UP ISLAMIC FINANCE MARKET
Sharia-compliant financial technology (fintech) is poised for explosive growth across both Islamic and western jurisdictions.
In part this reflects growth in Islamic finance: Refinitiv, an American-British global provider of financial market data owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE), predicts the value of money transacted through the Islamic finance sector will reach USD4.9 trillion by 2025. …
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND TRIBUNALS BEING DEVELOPED TO SOLVE ISLAMIC FINANCE DISPUTES
International legal arbitration systems and judicial standards are emerging to help solve complex Islamic finance disputes, while national judicial and informal dispute resolution systems continue to develop – in civil and religious law institutions.
Informal dispute resolution processes can, of course, resolve disagreements without recourse to the payment of damage and potentially without damaging valuable reputations.…
SMART TEXTILES TARIFFS AND DUTIES – DEEP DIVE
INTRODUCTION
In the competitive and innovative world of smart textile manufacturing and sale, companies strive to maximise functionality and minimise costs. Their ingenuity is the basis of their competitiveness. But as with all industries, some costs are out of their control.…
MALAYSIA SEES DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING AS A KEY PART OF ESSENTIAL AUTOMATION
Digital textile printing will help Malaysia’s textile industry adopt greater automation as it tries to cope with a tight labour supply, the Malaysian Textile Manufacturers Association has said.
Its president Tan Thian Poh said the digital textile print segment will take centerstage, as fabric manufacturers cope with Malaysian government immigration restrictions on foreign workers for all industries.…
ASIAN REGULATORY ROUND UP - JAPAN RESTRICTS PAINT AND CHEMICAL TRADE WITH RUSSIA OVER ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE
Companies in Japan that export paint and coatings and related chemicals ingredients to Russia and Belarus may face a trade ban if those items have been classed as ‘advanced goods’ under a May 20 amendment to Japan’s Export Trade Control Order.…
NATURAL HALAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS LINK SUSTAINABILITY AND FAITH TO DELIVER STRONG GROWTH
The gap between halal and natural beauty is narrowing down as halal beauty brands integrate more natural and vegan ingredients into their products, and global cosmetics companies use more ingredients that are inherently halal.
“In essence, the majority of halal ingredients are of non-meat origin, hence vegan products, for example, are by default usually halal,” Amna Abbas, consultant for beauty and fashion at Euromonitor International told Salaam Gateway.…
RUSSIAN IVASION OF UKRAINE DISRUPTS FOOD TRADE FOR HALAL MARKET COUNTRIES
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has disrupted the supplies of food, especially cereals, to major halal food markets, with Ukraine and Russia togethering controlling around 30% of the global wheat trade. The military action, which the UN said on April 17 had killed 2,072 civilians, has put the Middle East and North Africa in a tight position over food supplies, especially given the region’s economies have been weakened by the Covid-19 crisis.…
ISLAMIC FINANCE HIGHER EDUCATION EXPANDS WORLDWIDE
With the Islamic finance sector growing fast – with global turnover valued at USD2.2 trillion, according to S&P Global Ratings’ Islamic Finance Outlook 2022 Edition, with a projected 12% growth between 2021 and 2022 – demand for higher education courses on the topic are growing fast.…