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Day ONE
Monday 14th
November 2005
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08:00 |
Registration |
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08:45 |
INAUGURAL SESSION |
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History, Milestones & Future Vision |
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Welcoming address: |
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Dr Mohammed Khalfan bin Khirbash
Minister of State for Finance and Industry, Dubai |
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Sheikh Saleh Kamel
Chairman, Dallah Baraka Group
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Prof Rifaat Abdel Karim
Secretary General Islamic Financial Services Board |
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Inaugural Session Compered by
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Compere from CNBC Arabia |
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09:45 |
INAUGURAL SESSION
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The
Changing Face of Retail Banking – Challenges for Islamic
Banking
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Yavar Moini
Senior
Manager
Islamic
Structured Finance, Dubai Bank
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Sheikh Hussein Hamid Hassan
Dubai Islamic Bank |
Mohammad Ali Sharif
Head of
Islamic Banking, Maybank |
Duncan Smith
SVP, Group Head, Islamic Financial Services
Arab Banking Corporation |
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moderated by |
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Sohail Jaffer
Group Partner & CIO
FWU Group |
Q & A
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10:30 |
Coffee Networking Break |
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11:00 |
SESSION 1
Islamic
Retail Banking Developments |
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Session Chairman:
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Adel
Al Shirawi
CEO,
Tamweel
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Sohail Zubairi
Vice President, Shariah Structuring Documentation & Product Development,
Dubai Islamic Bank |
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Kuwait – Sophisticated Market & New Market Entrants
Kuwait
market, promising opportunities & developing the market
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Mudaser Qidwai
Deputy Manager, Asset Management
Al Madar |
Ahmed Marafi
Al Madar |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Featured Focus - SESSION
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A Focus on the Malaysian Islamic Retail Banking
Experience
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Session
Chairman:
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Mohd. Azmi Abu Bakar
CEO, Takaful Malaysia Berhad |
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The
Malaysian Retail Banking Experience
Malaysia’s Islamic retail finance industry overview |
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Mohammad Ali Sharif
Head of
Islamic Banking, Maybank |
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MyHome Loan Scheme, Malaysia
An Innovative Islamic Home Improvement (Instalment) Financing Scheme
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Shaikh Rizal Sulaiman
CEO, Arian Works
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followed by
Q & A |
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15:00 |
Coffee Networking Break |
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15:30 |
SESSION
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The UK & Europe:
Islamic retail finance in non-Muslim countries
'the
future seems bright'
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Session Chairman |
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Duncan Smith
SVP, Group Head, Islamic Financial Services
Arab Banking Corporation (B.S.C.), Bahrain |
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Islamic Bank of Britain – first FSA regulated fully
fledged Islamic bank – what products are currently been
offered and Islamic retail clients look forward to in
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Waheed Qaiser
UK Islamic Finance Practitioner
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ABC Islamic Asset Management & Alburaq Islamic Retail
Product suite –serving the UK and European Muslim
markets |
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Keith Leach
Senior Manager, UK Islamic
Financial Services
ABC International Bank PLC |
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The Benelux Countries – Retail Banking Opportunities: an
update |
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Mohammed Boulif
Al Maalya, Belgium
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followed by Q & A
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16:30 |
SESSION
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USA and Canada |
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Session Chairman:
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Naveed Siddiqui
CEO, Capitas Group |
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Expansion of Islamic finance in the USA |
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Stephen
Lange Ranzini
President & CEO, University Bank, USA |
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The North American Consumer Market, Wealthy, Committed and Underserved |
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Farrukh Siddiqui
COO, Capitas Group |
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Islamic retail finance in Canada - towards a
Canadian Islamic bank |
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Rehan Huda
CEO, Salaam
Financial, Canada |
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followed up by
Q & A |
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17:30 |
FEATURED FOCUS
Takaful - Relationship between Takaful and financing:
Unleashing the potential
Case for white labelling of products
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Sohail Jaffer
Group Partner & CIO
FWU Group, Luxembourg |
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Takaful risk management tools for Islamic
financing |
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Lotfi Zairi
Islamic
Corporation for the Insurance of Investment &
Export Credit (ICIEC) |
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18:00 |
Close |
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20:30 |
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Day TWO
Tuesday 15th November 2005
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Regulation, Innovation, Technology & Information &
emerging opportunities – key factors to future
Development progress |
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09:00 |
SESSION
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Emerging Market
Opportunities for Islamic Finance |
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Session Chairman:
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Chair to be announced |
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Qatar-
QNB Al Islami, catering for the demand for
Islamic financial services in Qatar |
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Musadaq El
Melik
Head of
Islamic Banking, Qatar National Bank
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Opportunities for Investment in Sudan |
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Mohammed Khalil
Al Sunut, Sudan
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Sudan - Post peace – huge opportunities
e.g Salam bank and Emirates Sudan Bank both
oversubscribed
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Naushad Noorali
Managing Director
Emirates Sudan Bank
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Pakistan - banking sector
opportunities for Islamic financial institutions
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Najm-ul-Hassan
General Manager
Meezan Bank |
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10:30 |
Coffee Networking Break |
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11:00 |
SESSION
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Islamic Banking Technology at the Fore:
Does Technology Yield Competitive Advantage? |
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Session Chairman
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Paul Mcnamara
Editor, Banker Middle East |
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Gaining, operating and offering advantage |
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Paul Dodd
Head of Product Management
Misys Banking Systems |
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Identifying the Value & Future of Real Time Information
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Haitham
Abdou
Banking Marketing and Product Development Manager
International
Turnkey Systems (ITS)
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Key
issues for Islamic institutions in finding robust
and Shariah compliant banking systems
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Anil Kumar
Director, Esquire’s Systems |
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12:00 |
SESSION
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Assessing the Future of the Islamic
Credit Card
- Developing the Market |
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Chairman |
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Dhafer Al-Qahtani
General Manager Specialised Funds
Al Tawfeek |
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Managing the transition from a cash dominated
society to one reliant on credit cards based
payments
Highlighting the potential of the Islamic credit card
in Muslim markets
Exploring new initiatives to improve card products &
charting the prospects for the Islamic credit card
markets in the next decade |
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Kamran Siddiqui
General Manager Middle East, Visa international |
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Emirates
Islamic Bank recently launched three innovative,
worry-free and full-featured Islamic credit cards |
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Khairil
Anwuar bin Mohd Noor
Emirates Islamic bank |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
SESSION
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Marketing, Branding & Communication
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Session Chairman
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Ahmed Mostafa
BBC
Arabic World Service |
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What can effective communication deliver? |
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Boutros Boutros
General
Manager Promotions, Media Relations & PR
Emirates
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Enhancing brand and reaching the masses |
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Ed Jones
Regional
Creative Director
Saatchi
& Saatchi
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Marketing & branding of Islamic financial
institutions |
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Rina
Plapler
Executive Director, Brand Experience
Future
Brand |
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15:30 |
SESSION
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Featured Media Discussion:
Assessing
the Impact of
Media in Shaping Public Attitudes |
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With
major communication advances, why is Islamic finance not
covered in proportion to its rapid growth? Could this be
due to:
Lack
of media knowledge
Niche
products not matching requirements of targeted market
Lack
of communication relying mainly on marketing and PR
Advertising in the traditional
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Moderator
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Dr Sulaiman Al-Hattlan
Forbes Arabia
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Could more effective communication deliver?
A
closer working relationship between business and
media
Better awareness through news and analysis
A
more effective means of reaching target audience
Greater Brand Identity |
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Ahmed Mostafa
BBC
Arabic World Service
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Mohammed Moamenin
CNBC Arabia
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Paul McNamara
Editor, Banker Middle East |
Raed Barqawi
Editor
Al
Khaleej Newspaper |
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16:15 |
Coffee Networking Break |
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16:30 |
SHARIAH SCHOLAR'S |
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