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Takaful

Islamic-compliant insurance – takaful – is finally getting off the mark, with Moody’s predicting a global market worth $7bn by 2015. Farhan Bokhari, in Karachi, reports.
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The fast paced growth of Islamic banks and Islamic bond offers may have lifted this sector’s global profile, but questions remain over the future of a less noticed product: the takaful or Islamic insurance market.

Analysts believe the growth of Islamic banking and finance worldwide will spur the growth of the Islamic insurance market, especially as businesses realise they must have Islamic insurance if they are to be eligible for Islamic loans.

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