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The risk that arises from a change in currency rates.
Sharia-compliant finance arrangements are ones which are in accord with Sharia law.


This can take the form of:
#a receipt/payment of more or less home currency than expected when a transaction is settled (transaction risk)
#a change in asset/liability values in a balance sheet, profit /loss in an income statement (translation risk), or
#a change in competitiveness as rates change relative to buyers, suppliers or competitors (economic risk). 


A more complex area of risk concerns contingent, or pre-transaction risk.
In Sharia-compliant finance and banking products, profit must be derived from commercial risk-taking and trading only, and all forms of interest are prohibited.


Also known as Currency exposure or Foreign exchange risk.
Sharia-compliant finance models therefore operate on the basis of risk sharing, to encourage operational investments which may be of benefit to the community.




== See also ==
Furthermore, commercial investments should only support practices that are permitted.
* [[Contingent risk]]
* [[Cross-currency interest rate swap]]
* [[Foreign exchange risk]]
* [[Transaction exposure]]
* [[Translation exposure]]


Thus, for example, trading in alcohol, pornography, financial services, pork, armaments, tobacco, gambling and other activities contrary to Sharia law are not allowed.


==Other links==
 
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/5281 Currency risk, Will Spinney, ACT 2009]
Sharia-compliant finance is also sometimes known as ''Islamic finance''.
 
 
==See also ==
* [[General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions]]
* [[IIFM]]
* [[Ijara]]
* [[Islamic banking]]
* [[Murabaha]]
* [[Reverse murabaha]]
* [[Riba]]
* [[Sharia-compliant fixed income capital markets instruments for cross-border transactions]]
* [[Sukuk]]
 
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Revision as of 16:22, 29 June 2021

Sharia-compliant finance arrangements are ones which are in accord with Sharia law.


In Sharia-compliant finance and banking products, profit must be derived from commercial risk-taking and trading only, and all forms of interest are prohibited.

Sharia-compliant finance models therefore operate on the basis of risk sharing, to encourage operational investments which may be of benefit to the community.


Furthermore, commercial investments should only support practices that are permitted.

Thus, for example, trading in alcohol, pornography, financial services, pork, armaments, tobacco, gambling and other activities contrary to Sharia law are not allowed.


Sharia-compliant finance is also sometimes known as Islamic finance.


See also