8:30 Registration, coffee and networking
08:55 Welcome address
Mr. William Wright, Editor, Financial News
09:00 Keynote address
Mr. Mohammed Ali Quayyum, Director General, Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance, IIBI
09:10 Panel 1
Defining the growing interest in Islamic Finance
- Growing financial opportunities due to increasing savings in Muslim majority countries. What are the secrets and where are the limits?
- Convergence of opportunity for ethical investment.
- What are the products and why are they not growing fast?
- Defining the enlarged Islamic Finance & Investment portfolios - looking beyond Investment Funds and Insurance (financing capital needs for projects in the present credit crunch and global debt crisis).
- How to enhance the flow of foreign and intra-regional capital into this growing asset class.
Moderator: Mr. Andrew Critchlow, Managing Editor, Zawya Dow Jones News Service
Speakers: Junaid Bhatti, Baron of Ballencrieff, CEO Ballencrieff House
Mr. Mohammad S. Khan, Director Takaful, PwC
Mr. Imran Pasha, Head of IBB Branch Network, Islamic Bank of Britain PLC
10:00 Keynote 1
Can Shari'ah compliance be codified?
- Why is ethical beautiful?
- How to convert appeal into business?
- The successful positioning of Islamic Finance in growing international markets like Malaysia and China
- Defining the cutting edge of Islamic Finance in comparison with common asset classes.
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Shari'ah compliant corporate governance
Speaker: Mufti Zubair Butt, Chair of Al Qalam Shari'ah Scholars Panel, the first ever UK- based panel of Shariah scholars
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 Panel 2
Attracting funds through Islamic Finance
- Islamic Finance and Private Equity: the opportunities to Islamic investors
- Enhancing the flow of foreign and intra-regional capital into this growing asset class?
- General overview of Islamic alternative assets
- Criteria for investment selection and the modes of permissible financing by Islamic investors.
- Structured products: Leasing, Syndications, Sukuk, Bi-lateral finance, Equity
- Consortium Deals (Aston Martin, Dubai Ports)
Moderator: Mr. James Mawson, Editor, Private Equity News
Speakers: Mr. Mohammed Paracha, Chief Executive Officer, Al Salam Europe Limited
Mr. Warren Edwardes, CEO, Delphi Risk Management
Prof. Rodney Wilson, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:30 Keynote
Islamic Regulation in Changing Times - how to adapt Islamic product offerings?
- How to regulate Islamic Finance products in a Muslim minority country with over 5 million potential customers
- Successful cooperation with the Muslim community
- Outlook for Islamic Finance regulation in Europe
- Where are the common approaches?
- Where are the differences?
- The way to a common regulatory approach
- How to cooperate successfully on a global level
Speaker: Mr. Saher Abbas, Director Shari'ah compliance and product development, Islamic Finance Advisory and Assurance Services (IFAAS)
14:00 Panel 3
Investments by Multinational Corporates into Islamic finance
- Why invest in Shari'ah compliant funds?
- Islamic Equity in Europe - frontline report
- Residential and Global Real Estate investments in the Middle East. How to access the growing middleclass credit market (mortgage and consumer credits)
- Infrastructure investments in the Middle East and South East Asia
- Islamic Hedge Funds gamble or serious asset class?
- Shari'ah compliant strategies that outperform conventional indices.
Moderator: Mr. Sham Bathija, UNCTAD Coordinator for Central Asia, UNCTAD
Speakers: Mr. Richard Bentley, Director Middle East Business, Hypo Real Estate Bank International AG
Junaid Bhatti, The Baron of Ballencrieff, CEO Ballencrieff House
Ms. Naveen Raza, Business Development Manager, Cru Investment Management plc
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Panel 4
Challenges & Opportunities
- London's successful approach to regulatory and taxation issues in Islamic Finance
- Lessons to be learnt from the Western ethical "green" finance industry for Islamic investors
- How taxation can raise the cost of Islamic Financial products
- Have the changes to tax law over the last five years leveled the playing field?
- Areas where further legislative change is needed
Moderator: Mr. Andrew Critchlow, Managing Editor, Zawya Dow Jones News Service
Speakers: Mr. Mohammed Amin, MA FCA AMCT CTA (Fellow), Tax Partner, PwC
Mr. Phelan Hill, Corporate Taxation Department, HM Treasury
Mufti Barkatulla, a leading Shari'ah scholar, currently a lecturer at Ebrahim College, London
16:30 Chairman's close
Mr. Mohammed Ali Quayyum, Director General, Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance, IIBI
16:35 End of conference
