Archive for the ‘Sources of Financing’ Category
First Foreign Sukuk Listed On Bursa Saham Malaysia
In line with Malaysia’s aspiration to internationalize Bursa Malaysia as the Islamic investment centre, recently there is this foreign listing of US$500 million (RM1.7 billion) sukuk issued by GE Capital.
Details:
The five-year Islamic bond is structured based on the globally accepted Syariah principle of Sukuk Al Ijara.
First foreign sukuk listing on Bursa Malaysia and hope to [...]
December 1, 2009
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Bank Negara’s Decision on Overnight Policy Rate To Remain At 2 Per cent
Further to earlier article on the OPR’s outlook/forecast by the economists from various banks, at the Monetary Policy Committee meeting held on 26 August 2009, Bank Negara Malaysia decided to leave the Overnight Policy Rate unchanged at 2.00 percent.
Full Text(Source:Reuters):
Since the MPC in July, more signs have emerged to suggest that global economic and financial [...]
August 26, 2009
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Outlook On Overnight Policy Rate(OPR) Unlikely To Change
Bank Negara’s monetary policy committee holds its sixth meeting of the year today(25 August 2009). There are another two more Meetings until the end of the year.
The following 21 economists surveyed in a Business Times poll:
Action Economics,Affin Investment Bank, AmResearch, Bank Islam, CIMB Investment Bank, Citi, Credit Suisse, DBS Bank, HSBC Bank, Inter-Pacific Research, JPMorgan [...]
August 25, 2009
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Internal And External Sources Of Finance
We can generally differentiate two sources of financing which are:
INTERNAL SOURCES
Traditionally, the major sources of finance for a limited company were internal sources:
Retained profit
Working capital
Sale of assets
EXTERNAL SOURCES
Ownership Capital
Owners’ refers to those people/institutions who are shareholders. Sole traders and partnerships [...]
December 8, 2007
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Note Issuance Facility (NIF)
Note Issuance facility is merely a method of financing that involves repeat issues of a short term debt instrument to the most competitive bidder through auctions.
When combined with a Revolving Underwriting Facility (RUF i.e. an underwriting facility which is extended in every round of fund-raising), the issue will devolve on the underwriter, if the [...]
July 17, 2007
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Sukuk And Islamic Capital Market
The emergence of the Islamic capital market in 2002 with the inaugural sukuk issued by the Malaysian Governement spearheaded the capital markets exponentially as it became the blue print to an increasing variety of instruments which can be used to create an efficient Islamic portfolio in line with portfolio theory and financial planning.
Increasingly, many companies [...]
May 23, 2007
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Short Term Financing-Bank Overdraft Facility
One of the credit facilities that businessmen can obtain from Financial Institutions is the Bank Overdraft Facility.
This article looks at its characteristics as this is the commonest tool used in company’s debt financing:
Only granted by Commercial banks;
Very convenient ( cheques can be issued for amounts [...]
January 23, 2007
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