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This book covers a research-based study on Islamic Banking and Conventional Banking: A Comparative Approach. It provides important insights for Islamic banks to improve their bank margin and profit by considering the significant variables affecting the bank profit margin. The awareness of Islamic banking products and cost of fund strategy are other important determinants of bank margin and profitability. This research also has the potential to enrich bank margin determinants'concept, theory, and practice.

What's in a Name takes readers to the often troubled centre of Malaysian politics and business over the last fifty years. Nazir Razak built CIMB Group into one of the most successful banks in ASEAN. In a career spanning three decades, he has been at the centre of the action. And when he was not, he had a ringside seat for all the biggest deals and power struggles, victories and defeats involving some of the most colourful characters of recent times. In this revealing memoir, Nazir recounts what it was like growing up in Malaysia's most prominent political family, honouring the legacy of his late father, Abdul Razak, Malaysia's revered second prime minister, while also being the brother of Najib Razak, whose term as prime minister ended with the ignominious 1MDB scandal – the fallout of which continues today. This is not just the story of Nazir's life as one of Malaysia's most successful businessmen; it is also a drama of family loyalty and what happens when that loyalty comes into conflict with deeply held principles. Nazir concludes with an analysis of the Malaysian political economy from his unique vantage point, and makes a compelling case for reforms and how they can be made.

Understanding International Finance is better learned from the basics. In writing this book, my aim was to provide a basic fundamental concept of international finance. Therefore, this book is specially written for undergraduates majoring in Finance, Banking and International Business. It is also a basic references for MBA students. This book provides a complete range of topics on International Finance, namely : - The history of international of exchange rate system and Malaysian foreign exchange market - Foreign exchange market, currency spot, forward and derivatives: futures and currency option - Forex rate determination, theories and market efficiency in foreign exchange market - Balance of payments and its components - Forex exposure (risk) management - Theory on the international portfolio investment and stock valuation - International capital budgeting on direct investment - International financing - Malaysian international banking and international financial centers - Methods of payment in international trade

The book provides students and academics in finance and banking with the most recent updates and changes in the Malaysian banking sector post-AFC period. The book explores the evolution of banking policies and practices after the'Tomyam Goong Crisis'and investigates the health of Malaysian banks via efficiency measurement. In addition, it also presents the evolution of bank risk management regulations and practices in Malaysia. The book also discusses the effectiveness of the Malaysian bank bailout strategy with comparison to the banks'bailout in developed countries such as the US.This book is important and timely since there are very limited books in the market that cover the recent developments on Malaysian banking sectors post-AFC period. Hence, this book serves as the valuable resource for all finance and banking students, academic researchers, and practitioners not limited to the Asian region that require in-depth insights on the latest policies and practices in the Malaysian banking sector.

This book offers an alternative framework for macroeconomic policy in Malaysia, derived from the universal principles of social justice espoused in the objectives of the Shariah. It attempts to holistically analyze issues related to public finance, which has been criticized for lack of transparency and justice in wealth distribution. This book explores these criticisms and discusses the principles of Islamic finance that may be applied to macroeconomic policymaking to create a better economy overall. It presents a case for a flat tax system, to make the economy more resilient to shocks, and financing methods that limit interest-rate-based debt contracts and allow greater risk sharing among the market participants on a broad scale. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book models the Malaysian economy based on policies that apply the fundamental Islamic finance principle of risk sharing to demonstrate its benefits in spurring growth, promoting distributive justice, rendering the economy more stable, strengthening the potency of monetary policy, enhancing fiscal governance, and improving financial inclusion. The book will be of interest to students, policymakers, financial institutions, researchers, ministries of finance, central banks, securities commissions, and anyone interested in alternative economic paradigms.

The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model developed by the Economic Modeling Division of the IMF for policy analysis and international economic research. Using a 5-region version of the GIMF, this paper illustrates the model's macroeconomic properties by presenting its responses under a wide range of experiments, including fiscal, monetary, financial, demand, supply, and international shocks.