Set the rules
once. Properly.
A framework outlives every product under it.
Getting one product right helps one institution. Getting the framework right shapes every product a market will issue for the next decade.
We work with central banks, regulators and finance ministries on the frameworks, standards and supervisory capacity that a market needs before it has volume — not after.
What this work involves.
- Framework design.Governance requirements, board mandates and disclosure rules that a supervisor can actually enforce.
- Standards alignment.Where to adopt an international reference framework, where to adapt it, and where local practice has to lead.
- Supervisory capacity.Training examiners to read a structure, not only a filing.
- Sovereign issuance.Structuring and certification for sovereign and quasi-sovereign sukuk programmes.
We publish the standard.
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