بنك التمويل الإسلامي يدفع ملياراته في البنية الأساسية بآسيا

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

ذكرت "شبكة رويترز" في تقاريرها الإخبارية المالية، أنه في ظل احتياج البنية الأساسية بدول آسيا لنحو 800 مليار دولار سنويًّا، تتدفَّقُ الأموال الإسلامية لتمويل هذه المشروعات؛ ولذلك تعكف الحكومات الآسيوية على وضع القوانين واللوائح التي تناسب الأحكام الشرعية للمعاملات المالية، والتغلب على العوائق الفنية والقانونية الحالية لجذب المستثمرين المسلمين.

وجدير بالذكر أن "بنك التنمية الإسلامي" - ومقراته بـ"جدة" و"تركيا" و"إندونيسيا" – أعلن عن نيته إنشاء بنك لتمويل مشروعات البنية التحتية؛ حيث تعهدت "تركيا" و"إندونيسيا" بتقديم 300 مليون دولار. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Islamic finance looks to jump on Asia's infrastructure bandwagon

Islamic finance aims to move into infrastructure, as governments and bankers plan a new organisation to handle deals and expand efforts to use sukuk for projects in majority-Muslim countries.

The asset-backed nature of Islamic finance should in theory make it ideal to build highway networks, ports and other big projects. An estimated $800 billion worth of infrastructure financing will be needed each year in Asia over the next decade, according to the Asian Development Bank.

But so far, technical, legal and political issues have mostly confined sharia-compliant infrastructure deals to mid-sized ones with shorter tenors. Only a handful of project finance deals have been done.

Governments are now trying to break the impasse. Indonesia, Turkey and the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank said last month that they planned to launch an Islamic infrastructure bank, with Indonesia and Turkey pledging at least $300 million each.

"We build this first, then we ask others to join," said Indonesia's Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro.

The IDB is in talks with Chinese officials to study the potential use of Islamic finance by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) which Beijing plans to establish. The IDB and the AIIB might co-finance projects.

An alliance between the AAIB and the IDB could be a powerful one - deals in which the Chinese-backed bank was involved might be seen to have China's foreign exchange reserves and political clout behind them, drawing fresh investors to Islamic finance.

Mohd Effendi Abdullah, senior vice president of Islamic markets at AmInvestment Bank, one of Malaysia's top arrangers of Islamic bonds, said increasing issuance of longer-dated sukuk was helping to set pricing benchmarks for future infrastructure deals.

In April, the Malaysian government sold $500 million of 30-year Islamic bonds, the world's first sovereign sukuk with such a tenor.

If sukuk are to play a bigger role in infrastructure, their arrangers will need to become comfortable working with longer tenors. Last year, $114 billion of sukuk were issued globally but only $24.5 billion had tenors of 10 years or more, according to Zawya, a Thomson Reuters company. Conventional Asian infrastructure bonds have tenors of up to 20 years, Abdullah said.