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Thomson Reuters launches next generation Islami...
Thomson Reuters launches next generation Islami....
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n\n\n\n\n Trusted 'trading-ready' intelligent information, global connectivity and\n transaction capability for Islamic Finance 2.0\n\n\nDubai and Abu Dhabi, 16, February, 2010 - Thomson Reuters today announced that\nit has launched its next generation Islamic Finance Gateway to guide the\nemerging industry to the next stage of growth and development.\n\nRushdi Siddiqui, Global Head of Islamic Finance, Thomson Reuters, said; \"Despite\nits image as an emerging industry, Islamic finance has now grown to be worth\naround US$1trillion and the Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Gateway truly opens\nup this world of possibilities and opportunities for financial market\nparticipants and professionals. The conventional, western finance industry is\naccustomed to clean, crisp, robust information, real-time news, connectivity to\ncommunities and the ability to act and transact with trusted counterparties. By\nproviding these 'must have' features the Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Gateway\ndemonstrates the industry's true breadth and makes the transition for all to\nIslamic Finance a seamless one.\"\nThe Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Gateway is a global, neutral platform and\ndirectory consisting of details for and links to Islamic finance professionals,\nrating agencies, industry standards bodies, Islamic finance hubs, index\nproviders, consulting firms, 400 Shariah scholars and Islamic subsidiaries from\nover 25 countries. Reuters Messaging is embedded within the Gateway to foster\ncommunication and create the connections required to build and grow communities.\nAvailable on itsflagship Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra desktop, The Thomson Reuters\nIslamic Finance Gateway improves transparency through lower information search\ncosts and provides greater global connectivity and insight into the industry's\nopportunities.\nBy bringing together neutral, intelligent, Islamic, 'trading-ready' finance\ninformation and analytics on a common platform, the Thomson Reuters Islamic\nFinance Gateway addresses the complete Islamic Finance work-flow.\nMarket professionals will now be able to access comprehensive, trusted\nmulti-asset class information on a wide range of Islamic finance instruments\nsuch as Sukuks, Islamic leveraged loans, funds, Islamic money market, Takafol\nand currencies; alongside embedded real-time news stories from Reuters, and\nc...