ASSAIF - the oldest Islamic finance consultancy in Europe - provides strategic institutional advisory worldwide to governments, central banks, public and semi-public institutions, regional and local authorities. It operates on a projects-basis model by establishing core teams of professionals and local experts in the legal and Shariah, fiscal and administrative, financial engineering and marketing areas.The long experience in Islamic finance (dating back to 1986) coupled with conventional and ethical finance achievements, enables ASSAIF  to provide informed opinion and analysis with an intellectually inclusive approach and to structure products and instruments that join the implementation of the values advocated by the Islamic political economy to the techniques proper to Islamic finance. ASSAIF focuses only on projects that are spiritually, socially, intellectually and economically beneficial to society at large and has been instrumental in bringing Islamic finance to new markets and extending its range of activities to new areas. Besides, ASSAIF  values and disseminates the culture of diversity and encourages the development of new forms of governance in Western societies that take into account the financial inclusion of the Muslim communities in full compliance with the national regulations, while at the same time satisfying their own cultural requirements