Navigating Risks: Risk Management for Islamic Financial Institutions (Banking)
As Islamic financial institutions continue to grow in complexity and scale, effective risk management becomes critical to ensuring resilience and financial stability. This course provides a rigorous and applied understanding of risk management for institutions offering Islamic financial services (IIFS), anchored in IFSB-1: Risk Management for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services. The course opens with the foundational risk management cycle and examines how each stage is influenced by the nature of Islamic contracts and the Sharīʿah governance structures that underpin them. Participants will gain a clear understanding of both the risks common to all financial institutions (credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk) and the risks specific to Islamic banks, including equity investment risk, rate of return risk, displaced commercial risk, Sharīʿah non-compliance risk, and fiduciary risk. A key feature of the course is its contract-level analysis of risk. Participants will examine how credit and market risks arise and transform across different stages of Islamic financing contracts and how these transformations demand a holistic, interconnected approach to risk management. The course further covers Sharīʿah-compliant credit risk mitigation techniques, including Hamish Jiddiyah, Urbun, Kafalah, and Rahn. The course is ideal for regulators, supervisors, and practitioners with a background in Islamic finance