• Shari'a compliant transactions

    • LR-1.2.27

      Conventional bank licensees may not hold themselves out as an Islamic bank. Conventional bank licensees may only enter into activities (c) to (e) listed in Rule LR-1.3.1, when dealing with governments, public sector entities and other licensed financial institutions. Conventional bank licensees may not undertake these activities with individual or corporate clients (whether resident or non-resident).

    • LR-1.2.28

      As an exception to the restriction in Rule LR-1.2.27, conventional bank licensees may invest for their own account in sukuks.

    • LR-1.2.29

      Conventional bank licensees may also freely deal in financial instruments or operate a Collective Investment Undertaking that happens to be Shari'a compliant (because of the nature of the financial instruments concerned).