Saturday, May 5, 2018

Islamic finance in Europe (166)


Continuation
An Islamic financing is – after all – a financial product with certain characteristics.
One of these being that it is made in accordance with the Shari’ah.
The text that prohibits interest payments, i.e:
-      the Quran
-      and the Hadeeth
also prohibits the misappropriation of other people’s property (“the eating of other people’s money in an unlawful way”).
Those who choose to abide by one rule (i.e. the avoidance of interest payments) are also expected to have a higher propensity to follow another rule (i.e. “do not default”).
Therefore, if borrowers obtain Islamic financing because of their religious motives, one should observe a lower rate of default on Islamic financing.

From the research paper of European Central Bank
(Authors: F.Mauro, P.Caristi, S.Couderc, A.D.Maria, L.Ho, B.K.Grewal, S.Masciantonio, S. Ongena and S.Zaher)

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