The controversy of whether modern-day commercial interest falls under the purview riba¯ and, therefore, prohibited or not was resolved globally by end 1980s resolutions, fatawa, and reports various forums committees. Accordingly, Islamic banking started evolving, Pakistan pioneer in this regard. Yet, as Constitution Republic required elimination from entire economy, certainly a difficult task, ...

3 Lucía D’Andrea, Francisco J. Pérez-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Costafreda, 4 Nerea Beguiristain, Cristina Fuentes, Teresa Aymerich, Susana Guix, 5 Albert Bosch and Rosa M. Pintó 6 7 Enteric Virus Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, School of Biology, University 8 of Barcelona, Diagonal, 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain 9 Enteric Virus Laboratory, Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Campus Torrib...

What is Islamic Finance? There are at least three characteristics which makes it different from the conventional debt finance. First, it prohibits riba or interest, or in other words a fixed and pre-determined rate of return to be paid on the deposits or to be received from the borrowers. The rate of return is variable and determined by the profit and loss that the bank makes during a given per...

Abstrak: Makna dasar larangan riba menurut Islam adalah untuk menghindari kezaliman dan dalam segala bentuk perekonomian. Kebijakan moneter menitikberatkan pada pola pengaturan memperkecil kesenjangan jumlah uang antara sektor riil dengan menghilangkan transaksi produk di pasar keuangan yang tidak didasarkan produktivitas riil. Peningkatan dapat mendorong arus perekonomian (velocity of money). ...

Fintech implementation still lacks legal protection for the parties involved. The rules imposed by Financial Services Authority (FSA/ Otoritas Jasa Keuangan/OJK) have aspects of riba that contradict sharia compliance principles. This study determines alternative solutions to unfair practices in conventional Fintech, especially peer-to-peer lending (P2P lending) Indonesian banking practices. res...

In this study of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection prevalence in France, the prevalence of antibodies to HCV (as tested by second generation ELISA, with RIBA-2 confirmation in ELISA 2 positive samples) was found to be low (0.3%) in the healthy general population. HCV infection prevalence increased in the general population in association with African or Asian origin and risk factors such as bis...