[Dave Birch] Joseph Divanna is an independent author, consultant and global public speaker. He is the Managing Director of Maris Strategies Limited, a financial services, global business and innovation think-tank providing research and advisory services. He recently wrote a book about Islamic finance,
"Understanding Islamic Banking: The Value Proposition That Transcends Cultures" , a topic of growing interest, so I thought it might be useful to get him to introduce the topic to the Digital Money world. In this
podcast, I talk to Joe about his book and ask him to help us to see where the electronic and Islamic worlds may be going.
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[Dave Birch] Islamic finance seems to be growth area generally, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Islamic payments growing similarly, even if I'm not entirely sure what that would mean. But with the first Islamic chip & PIN card now in the market, issued by the Kuwait Finance House in Bahrain, it might a good time for digital money thinkers to look at the area in more detail.
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