SHARIAH-COMPLIANT STOCKS: HARMONIZING INDEX INSTITUTION SCREENING METHODOLOGIES

Harmonizing lung cancer screening guidelines.

N ew guidelines on lung cancer screening narrow the scope of who should be screened for the disease, as well as define where and how people should be screened. The guidelines were a combined effort of a pulmon-ologist and director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan– Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who chaired the panel. " Many organizations have established sepa...

Coupling Index and Stocks

In this paper, we are interested in continuous time models in which the index level induces some feedback on the dynamics of its composing stocks. More precisely, we propose a model in which the log-returns of each stock may be decomposed into a systemic part proportional to the log-returns of the index plus an idiosyncratic part. We show that, when the number of stocks in the index is large, t...

House Price Index Methodologies

Privacy Compliant Internal Fraud Screening

In the year 2009 several data privacy scandals have hit the headlines where major corporations had a legitimate need for detecting fraud conducted by their own employees, but chose inappropriate measures for data screening. This contribution presents architectures and pseudonymization technology for privacy compliant fraud screening or fraud detection, in order to reduce the number of undiscove...

Technology Adoption in Shariah Courts

Information and communication technogies have led to dynamic changes in the way courts of law perform thier duty to deliver justice. Courts of law depend on the availability, comprehensiveness and quality of information relating to the case in reaching a conclusive and fair verdict. Courts will not be able to deliver justice in the cases where records are not properly managed; thus, depriving t...