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This Post Really Suk-kuks: Examining Islamic Finance

Posted May 11, 2008 - 14:04 by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance, Investment, Consumer Affairs

There is a burgeoning form of Islamic fundamentalism and it has nothing to do with hate speech or bombs -- Shariah-compliant financing. These loans, based on the premise that there is no production value in credit and that loan issuance must be based on tangilbe assets and require tight debt levels, are not only growing exponentially in use but are available to non-Muslims and well, kind of make sense in some cases.

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Behind the Times - I learn about Keep the Change

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Investment

I tend to ignore most promotions that banks send my way. I use Bank of America for my primary checking account, and they often interrupt my online banking log-in to try to sell me on some kind of promotion, and it’s usually crap.

So it was with Keep the Change – I just assumed that it was another little gimmick that wasn’t worth a second glance, and I would sigh heavily whenever the advertisement prevented me from immediately seeing my account balance when I logged into my online checking account. It wasn’t until a friend told me that she was participating that I started to pay attention.

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