The conceptual foundations of blockchain technology have a strong ethical dimension. It is usually associated with terms, such as, transparency, verifiability, traceability, immutability, all of which are bracketed with economically …
A “smart campaign” is a familiar term in the context of microfinance that seeks to help the poor. It is about being fully transparent in the pricing, terms and conditions of …
Large sections of Indian Muslims are poor. They also tend to get excluded from the formal banking and financial system for a variety of reasons including their aversion to Riba …
I was motivated to write this piece by the story of a poor farmer in India. The story of this 48-year old farmer Devidas Parvane from the Rasai village of …
It was an Indian scholar, Dr Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi who provided the first theoretical model for an Islamic bank in his celebrated book “Banking without Interest” in the 1960s. He went …