KARACHI: Pakistan's Islamic banking windows of conventional banks continued to grow during the first half of the calendar year 2011 (1HCY11) with improved asset base. Total assets grew by 27.28 percent during the first half as the Islamic banking windows total assets stood at Rs 189.990 billion.
JEDDAH: The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), an affiliate of the IDB Group, is making intense efforts to increase trade among members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to 20 percent of their total trade by 2015. It has given $13 billion since 2008 to finance trade.