Services Overview | End to End Shari’a Finance Solutions

Dar Al Istithmar provides comprehensive Shari'a product structuring across all asset classes, Islamic banking arranging and advising, as well as a complete range of Shari’a advisory services to its clientele globally. Our main areas of focus are Islamic Liquidity, Islamic (true asset) Products and Islamic Structuring & Consulting.

Islamic Liquidity

• The commodity murabaha dominates the Islamic money markets even though the structure is contested from a Shari’a point of view, is illiquid, inefficient and costly. Dar Al Istithmar can, via its Islamic Issuance Platform (“Platform”), offer better and liquid alternatives.
• Today there is no Islamic commercial paper market and so corporates depend upon banks to finance themselves. Dar Al Istithmar, via its Islamic Issuance Platform, can assist conventional and Islamic institutions to access the liquidity of Islamic investors in an easy way.
• The Islamic repo market is also underdeveloped. DI is working on initiatives to develop a structure which would be acceptable to the majority of Islamic counterparties and facilitate the establishment of an active and easily accessible Shari’a compliant repo market.

Islamic (true asset) Products

• Unfortunately, although the Islamic markets are expanding rapidly there is still a huge shortage of truly Shari’a asset based products.
• Dar Al Istithmar offers high quality investment products that are fully asset based and truly Shari’a compliant.

Islamic Structuring & Consulting

• Skilled Islamic financial engineers are difficult to find and in most cases working with the bigger investment banks. The solutions and products they offer are biased towards the firm that they are working for. Dar Al Istithmar can offer independent structuring advice and can be a buffer to the banks in your negotiations and dealings with them.
• On the Shari’a Advisory front we continue to offer our clients all-inclusive Shari’a Consulting Services, Shari’a Monitoring Services, and Shari’a Compliance Review Services. We tailor our services and provide solutions that fully meet the requirements of our clients.