Resources
570easi
Firm that distributes sharia-screened investments (life insurance, funds) and supports murabaha-type financing.
Chaabi Bank
French subsidiary of the Moroccan Banque Populaire group. Its Harmonis account pays no interest: deposits go to compliant products, under the oversight of a committee of experts.
BCEAO
Central bank of the eight WAEMU states, including Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali. A 2018 instruction regulates banks that practise Islamic finance, in full or through a window.
Banque Islamique du Sénégal
Exclusively Islamic bank, in Dakar. One of the two WAEMU banks with the word “Islamic” in their name.
Al Baraka Bank Algérie
First Islamic bank in Algeria, founded in 1991 by the state-owned bank BADR and the Dallah Al Baraka group.
Al Salam Bank Algeria
Islamic bank founded in 2008. Public and private banks also offer Islamic windows, certified by the Autorité charaïque nationale de la fatwa.
Bourse de Luxembourg
Lists sukuk, including the Luxembourg state’s in 2014 (€200 million, ijara structure), the first issued by a eurozone country.
BTI Bank
Participative bank founded in 2017 by Bank of Africa and Bahrain Islamic Bank.
Bank Al Yousr
Participative bank founded in 2017 by Banque Centrale Populaire and Guidance Financial Group.
Bank Al-Maghrib
Central bank of Morocco. It licenses and supervises participative banks, authorised by banking law 103-12 and open since 2017.
Bank Assafa
Participative bank of the Attijariwafa bank group.
Umnia Bank
Participative bank owned by CIH Bank and Qatar International Islamic Bank.
Al Baraka Bank Tunisie
First Islamic bank in Tunisia, founded in 1983. It belongs to the Al Baraka group, based in Bahrain.
Banque Zitouna
Islamic bank opened in 2010, the largest of the three Tunisian Islamic banks.
Wifak International Bank
Institution converted to Islamic finance in 2017, after the 2016 banking law. Head office in Medenine.
AAOIFI
Bahrain-based body that publishes the accounting, auditing and compliance standards followed by many Islamic banks. Site in English and Arabic.
Académie internationale du fiqh islamique
Body of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Its resolutions on financial contracts are a reference.
Banque islamique de développement
Multilateral bank based in Jeddah. Several francophone African countries are members and receive its financing.
IFSB
Islamic Financial Services Board, in Kuala Lumpur: prudential standards for Islamic banks, insurers and markets. Site in English.
Mes questions d’argent
The public financial education portal: budget, savings, credit, insurance.