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5 Basic Shariah Principles in Financial Transactions #1 Prohibition of Riba
Shariah Compliance: Consistency is Critical ‘AQAD Principles MAQASID Benefits vsdisbenefits LEGAL/CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION Protection of Rights FINANCIAL REPORTING AAOIFI/IFSB/IFRS
Shariah Compliant Parameters • Aqad-based– Contract-based • Maqasid al-Shariah(purpose of the Law) – impact on society • Financial Reporting – actual strength and performance of companies • Legal documentation – identification and recognition of rights and obligations of contracting parties.
Approved Islamic Finance Products • BBA Home Financing • Bay InahHome Financing • Bay InahPersonal Financing/Overdraft/credit card • Tawarukmunazampersonal financing • Commodity murabaha • Ijarahthummaal-bay • Bai-bithamanAjil Islamic Debt Securities (BAIDS) • Discounted Bay al-daynMuNif • SukukIjarah • SukukMusharakah Islamic Bonds
Challenging issues in AQAD-based Islamic Finance Products • Benchmaking profit rate against interest rate (LIBOR,KLIBOR). • Profit Equalization Reserve (PER) – displaced commercial risk • Sale with condition to buyback at predetermined price between two and three parties. • Profit generated over installment payments – time value of money • Penalties on delayed payments • Benchmakingsukuk rates against LIBOR • Musharakah with Purchase undertakings – fixed profit to one party only. • IjarahSukuk - Sale with repurchase agreement at par value and not mark-to market • IjarahSukuk – Ownership of asset by SPV • Profit-rate swaps – speculation or gambling?
Contract of Sale • Example: Murabaha/BBA Sale • Buyer and Seller eg. Seller owns asset/subject matter before making sale 2. Subject matter eg. Mal mutaqawim – property with usurfruct 3. Price eg. Set on the spot 4. Offer & Acceptance eg. Verbal or in writing
Method #2: Maqasid al-Shariah/Objective of Shariah To protect the interest of the public (society)- maslahah al-ammah by: 1. removing the harm ( ibqa) 2. securing of benefits (tahsil)
Objective of Shariah Islamic financial products as defined by AQAD methodology, should contain more benefits (masalih) and less or no harm (madarah). “ in gambling (maisir) and liqour (qimar), there are some sins and some profits. But the sins are greater than the profits” (Al-Baqarah: 168).
“ in Gambling (maisir) and Liqour (qimar), there are some sins and some profits. But the sins are greater than the profits” (Al-Baqarah: 168). Gambling & Liqour
Financing BBA
Plain BBA
Maqasid • To analyse(theoretical) and measure( empirical) impacts of financial intermediation based on aqad-based Shariah compliant products. • Efficiency studies • Profitability studies • Studies on Consumer welfare and protection • Studies on Financial stability
Maqasid – protecting public interest. • Aqad-based products (ABP) SHOULD contain more benefits and less harm. • What if, it was proven than they (ABP) contain more harm than good? eg. Abandon projects – customer cannot make recourse against bank as selling party? Defaulted BBA customer are required to make settlement based on the selling price. Sale with no transfer of ownership. Giving away clean inah personal financing at high profit rates– a way towards subprime inah? Conflict between Aqad and Maqasid?
Method #3: Financial Reporting • Proper recording of transactions to evident TRUE SALE. • BBA – bank must put BBA asset on balance sheet prior to sale. I week, 1 month it depends. • Once sold, it is recorded as BBA receivables. • AITAB assets should be on banking book as leasing assets but now treated as “financing and advances”. • External auditors (PWC, KPMG etc.) are not required by the authority to conduct Shariah audit. And they may not be not capable to do so. Conflict between AQAD and financial reporting?
1st October 2008 15 October 2008 • 1/9/2008 Bank purchases Property from Vendor for $200,000 • 15/9/2008 Bank Sells Property to Customer for $280,000
‘Do not Sell what you don not Own” Hadith (Sahih Bukhari) High Court Judge Datuk Abdul Wahab Patail says that the sale element in BBA sale is not a bona fide sale BBA Legal Documentation Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) Property Purchase Agreement (PPA) Property Sale Agreement (PSA) Deeds of assignment/Charge 2. Bank do not have legal + beneficial ownership of property to make a valid sale 1. No transfer of title from Customer to Bank
Basel II and IFSB • High risk-weights for Musharakah Financing to imply that bank bears business risk and the general investment account holders (GIA) do not. • Recent PSIA guidelines will test risk appetite of depositors.
Method #4: Legal Documentation • BBA should be documented as a true sale and not as a loan. (Dato’ Nik vs. BIMB) • Ijarah should be documented as operating lease and not a loan (Tinta Press vs. BIMB) • Islamic bank has not practice fairness compared with conventional bank (Affin bank vs Zulkifli). Conflict between AQAD and documentation of AQAD?
‘Do not Sell what you don not Own” Hadith (Sahih Bukhari) High Court Judge Datuk Abdul Wahab Patail says that the sale element in BBA sale is not a bona fide sale BBA Legal Documentation Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) Property Purchase Agreement (PPA) Property Sale Agreement (PSA) Deeds of assignment/Charge 2. Bank do not have legal + beneficial ownership of property to make a valid sale 1. No transfer of title from Customer to Bank
Shariah Compliance: Consistency is Critical ‘AQAD Principles MAQASID Benefits vsdisbenefits LEGAL/CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION Protection of Rights FINANCIAL REPORTING AAOIFI/IFSB/IFRS
Why Islamic bonds? • Muslim Faith • Project finance, refinancing • Economic growth. • Reduce dependency on bank loans • Mopping up excess liquidity in Islamic banks and other IFIs. • All markets can buy – Muslim and non-Muslim markets
Conventional Securitization • Securitization is the conversion of assets in marketable securities. • Involving a true sale • Asset – financial assets such as loan receivables. • Fixed income and capital protection
Islamic securitization • IPDS - conversion of physical asset into marketable securities. • No true sale • Fixed income and capital protection • Contract – bay al-inah • Redemption – bay al-dayn at par value • Trading bay al-dayn at discount