Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Islamic finance in Europe (168)


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Banks may set the penalties on conventional loans lower than those for Islamic financing.
By this way they attract fees from borrowers that are expected to be only temporarily unable to repay their financing commitments.
Islamic financing contracts may further result in a swifter loss of access for the borrower to the financed object (e.g. a car) than a conventional loan contract.
It will happen particularly when the latter is uncollateralised.
In both cases, the probability of default of an Islamic financing may again be lower.
In addition, banks may be more concerned about judicial risk when granting Islamic financing.
(Jobst, 2007).
Not only can Islamic borrowers turn to Shari’ah courts, which rule on a case-by-case basis.
They can also seek redress in regular courts.
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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