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INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC NEWS – “CAMPAIGNERS IN LONDON AND NEW YORK CALL FOR RETURN OF USURY LAWS”, 20 JULY, 2009
Imams, rabbis and priests join a campaign in London and New York for the return in the United Kingdom of usury laws. Bankers in London and New York will be targeted this week at the launch of a new transatlantic campaign to reinstate historic usury laws restricting the interest rates charged by loan sharks and credit card companies . Usury is deplored in the three great Abrahamic faiths. In his encyclical letter last week, Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI said that the weakest and most vulnerable members of society “should be helped to defend themselves against usury”
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MEINSURANCEREVIEW – ALBERTO BRUGNONI, “TAKAFUL IN EUROPE: A FERTILE GROUND”, JUNE 2009
The expansion of takaful may be more dramatic in Western Europe than in the traditional markets of Middle East and East Asia, provided the right products and regulatory balance can be found .. . The expansion of the takaful industry has been a growing feature of the insurance landscape in recent times. While the initial phase was dominated by domestic operators in Sudan, Malaysia and the Middle East, the latter stages of growth has enticed big conventional insurance and reinsurance providers – Allianz, Munich Re, Swiss Re etc – to enter the takaful fold …
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SF MAGAZINE – ALBERTO BRUGNONI, “TAKAFUL AND CONVENTIONAL INSURANCE”, MAY 2009
The risk-reward relationships that govern the investment decisions of Takaful companies and their conventional counterparts are similar as both groups insure their participants against the same kinds of risks with the additional constraint for the Takaful companies of Shariah-compliance . It is also true that Takaful companies, like conventional insurers, have fiduciary responsibilities vis-à-vis their customers similar to those of a quasi-trust
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REDATTORE SOCIALE – “UNA BANCA ISLAMICA IN ITALIA? ‘ITALIA IN RITARDO PSICOLOGICO”, 12 MAY 2009 – ALBERTO BRUGNONI, PRESIDENT OF ASSAIF, SPEAKS ON THE NEED TO DEVELOP THIS SECTOR
Le leggi islamiche, rispettose della Sharia, avrebbero impedito alle società di ”mettere fuffa nei loro bilanci”- È ancora presto per parlare di una banca islamica in Italia. Sia perché da parte dei musulmani presenti nel nostro Paese (circa 1,5 milioni di persone, ndr) non c’è ancora interesse per questo tipo di prodotti, sia per mancanza di attenzione da parte gli organi di governo del settore bancario “Eppure l’Italia è il primo esportatore al mondo con i Paesi “Mena”, dal Marocco allo Yemen, e con i Paesi del Golfo. Per questo non può ignorare lo sviluppo della finanza islamica -…
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