| Date / Subject |
Event / News |
| News |
BEC members participated in two events of increasing interest and importance. The first was a seminar at the Cass Business School and the Strategic Planning Society on Business Models and Governance on the 15th of July 2010 and the second, was a conference organised by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) on "Governing Success: understanding culture in integrating strategy, risk and opportunity" on the 29th of September 2010. |
| News |
BEC held a "Strategy Away Day" at MCB office on 27 November 2010, attended by a dozen Executive Committee members. This provided an opportunity to assess the BEC 's current position and chart a way forward with fresh leadership including half of the dozen Executives now being women, probably a historic first for a MCB Executive Committee. |
| News |
The Islamic Finance Experts Group (IFEG) continues its activities through IFEGonline and Islamic Finance Intermediate Group (IFIG) seminars which have been held regularly every month. |
| Meeting Dates |
27th November 2010 (strategy day), 12th January 2011, 9th March 2011, 11th May 2011, 13th July 2011, 14th September 2011, 9th November 2011 (Starts 6:30pm) |
| June 2010 |
Download BEC AGM 2009 report here |
| 21 October 2009 |
The BEC will be having an informal annual dinner and get together for BEC members and friends, including those who might be interested in joining. Pay on the night. More detailed in the attached document |
| 25-26 July 2009 |
The BEC held the fourth successful running of its "Effective Negotiation Skills" course. The course flyer explains its objectives and gives details of the instructor, Shahzad Bhatti, who is a world renowned advisor on negotiation. The course photo album shows the interactive nature of the training and how much the participants enjoyed it. |
| 18 July 2009 |
Abid Shakeel, a BEC member, recently wrote a short introduction to Islamic finance and has agreed to it being shared here. |
| 14 July 2009 |
The "Islamic Finance Experts Group" is an invitation only discussion group whose convenor is Fazl Syed. By following the links, you can access the report of the first meeting which discussed sukuk, and papers prepared for the meeting by Mohammed Amin (who could not attend), Massoud Janekeh, Muhammad Nurullah Shikder, and Navshir Jaffer. |
| 1 March 2009 |
Sir Iqbal Sacranie led a delegation of 26 people to the Fifth World Islamic Economic Forum in Jakarta. Click here for the delegation brochure |
| 27 February 2009 |
Some BEC members have written an MCB briefing paper,"London and Islamic Finance" for the Mayor of London, outlining the contribution of Islamic finance to London. |
| 26 February 2009 |
In December 2008, HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority issued a,consultation document to address concerns that sukuk might be treated as collective investment schemes for UK regulatory purposes. The MCB submitted a response which can be found here |
| 28-29 October 2008 |
IFTC 08 Conference Click here for Conference account |
| 15 Sep 2008 |
On 26 June 2008 HM Revenue and Customs issued a consultation document with a proposed stamp duty land tax relief where companies transfer land to another company to enable sukuk to be issued. The BEC sent a response on behalf of the MCB. The law has now been amended in Finance Act 2009 Schedule 61. |
