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Trade corridors link Gulf liquidity with fast-growing economies.<\/p>\n
The Islamic finance industry now holds approximately $6t in assets across nearly 100 jurisdictions, emerging as a major driver of international capital flows, trade finance, and digital infrastructure amid shifts in global trade.<\/p>\n
According to a new report by Standard Chartered, titled Islamic Banking for Financial Institutions: The Islamic Finance Connector Era, the sector is moving beyond traditional funding to connect liquidity-rich markets, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with fast-growing economies across ASEAN, South Asia, and Africa.<\/p>\n
The bank noted that whilst liquidity in Islamic finance continues to deepen, capital deployment remains uneven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Only six per cent of global sukuk capital currently reaches South Asia and Africa despite significant infrastructure and development needs in those regions, presenting a clear opportunity to bridge the funding gap.<\/p>\n The study highlights GCC-centred, China-centred, and Middle East-T\u00fcrkiye corridors as priority channels for trade, investment, and working capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It also points to private credit and digital assets, including tokenisation, as expanding avenues for Shariah-compliant capital, provided legal and governance frameworks continue to develop.<\/p>\n Khurram Hilal, CEO of Group Islamic Banking at Standard Chartered, stated that the primary challenge for many markets is not a shortage of liquidity, but connecting that capital to cross-border opportunities effectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He added that institutions building trusted links between capital, markets, and digital infrastructure will be best placed to support sustainable growth across emerging economies.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trade corridors link Gulf liquidity with fast-growing economies. The Islamic finance industry now holds approximately $6t in assets across nearly 100 jurisdictions, emerging as a major driver of international capital flows, trade finance, and digital infrastructure amid shifts in global trade. According to a new report by Standard Chartered, titled Islamic Banking for Financial Institutions:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-rubriki"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Istanbul-6-1140x445.jpeg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Istanbul-6-463x348.jpeg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Istanbul-6-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Istanbul-6.jpeg",1200,800,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}