Amanie officially launches its Islamic Finance Learning Center in Dubai

AME Info :Amanie, the premier Islamic finance consulting company, launches its Islamic finance learning center in Dubai today.

Operating under the brand name of Amanie Islamic Finance Learning Center (AIFLC), the DIFC registered entity will offer a range of Islamic finance, banking and takaful training programs and services, AIFLC will meet the significant demand for training and human development from the Islamic finance industry in the Gulf region.

Apart from the focus of practitioners in the Gulf region, the center aims to attract practitioners from countries with large Muslim populations, including the USA, the UK, Germany, France and Holland. Amongst the core strengths of AIFLC is its deep pool of very experienced trainers and facilitators which includes many of the renowned Shariah scholars and practitioners from the Gulf and also from other parts of the world .

Commenting on the launch of AIFLC, Dr Mohd Daud Bakar, Managing Director said: 'To date the global Islamic finance industry has flourished since its humble beginnings 30 years ago. Our objective of setting up the AIFLC is to provide focused industry related training programs that will further spur the growth of the Islamic finance industry. We feel by making industry related knowledge available to more practitioners, it will help to encourage a healthy growth of the industry and set the platform for more innovations in Islamic finance products and services.'

AIFLC has already lined up its training programs for the next calendar year. These programs will be a mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced level to cater to the needs of the industry. On top of the training programs, AIFLC will also offer a tailor made in-house training programs to serve the specific need of any organization and organize various conferences on special topics and issues that are related to the Islamic finance industry.

Today's launch of the AIFLC coincides with the effort of the center to organize its initial programs before the end of 2008. These initial programs are to fulfill the urgent market demand of the GCC market.