Why I Voted for Algorand – IV
Let the green and clean technology win! These were the concluding lines of my last blog. Little did I realize then the current spotlight on…
Category: Fintech
Promise of IRSHAD: The Intelligent Robo Shariah Advisor
In one of my earlier blogs, I had proposed a model on the use of artificial intelligence to undertake a valuation of waqf assets based…
IBFx: The Future Currency of Islamic DeFi
IBFx is being designed as the crypto currency of IBF Net: The Islamic Business and Finance Network. With the introduction of this currency, the network…
Islamic DeFi: Back to Basics – V
In the first and second blogs dedicated to the subject of Islamic Decentralized Finance (DeFi) we attempted to trace the trajectory of what we know…
Islamic DeFi: Back to Basics – IV
Simplicity is not just a virtue. It is an imperative in Islamic finance. Let us keep the game simple and comprehensible. Let us play the…
Islamic DeFi: Back to Basics – III
In the current whirlpool of speculation at Digital Asset Exchanges, speculative cryptos will drive out non-speculative ones from circulation. Click here for Part 1 of…
Islamic DeFi: Back to Basics – II
DeFi, we should. Disrupt, we must. (Click here for Part 1 of this series) The positive contribution of Islamic microfinance to Islamic finance in general…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – V
We can take comfort with the forecast that AI will firmly stay within human control and conveniently, trash the forecast of some that machines will…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – IV
Text analysis may be useful, for instance, for a waqf organization to know what the neighborhood feels about the public goods (education, healthcare, orphan care…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the Lens of Islamic Economics – III
When a poor and needy individual (faqir/ miskeen) is wrongly classified as non-poor and deprived of zakat (a case of false-negative) or a rich is…