Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Supervision of Islamic banks and Basel II : the regulatory challenge / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim -- 2. Banking and the risk environment / Hennie van Greuning and Zamir Iqbal -- 3. Risk characteristics of Islamic products : implications for risk measurement and supervision / V. Sundararajan -- 4. Capital structure and risk in Islamic financial services / Wafik Grais and Anoma Kulathunga -- 5. Inherent risk : credit and market risks / Abdullah Haron and John Lee Hin Hock -- 6. Operational risk exposures of Islamic banks / Simon Archer and Abdullah Haron -- 7. Law and Islamic finance : an interactive analysis / Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo and Michael J. T. McMillen -- 8. Supervisory implications of Islamic finance in the current regulatory environment / Hart Bhambra -- 9. Risk and the need for capital / Charles Freeland and Steven Friedman -- 10.

Measuring risk for capital adequacy : the issue of profit-sharing investment accounts / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim -- 11. Measuring operational risk / Elisabeth Jackson-Moore -- 12. Supervisory implications of Islamic banking : a supervisors perspective / Toby Fiennes -- 13. Securitization in Islamic finance / Abdulkader Thomas -- 14. The role of capital markets in ensuring Islamic financial liquidity / Stella Cox -- 15. Regulating Islamic capital markets / Robert Gray and Arshad Ismail -- 16. Corporate governance for banks / Harold Yunis -- 17. Specific corporate governance issues in Islamic banks / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim -- 18. Corporate governance and supervision : Basel pillar 2 / Chizu Nakajima and Barry A. K. Rider -- 19. Transparency and market discipline : Basel pillar 3 / Daud Abdullah -- 20.

Human resource management of Islamic banks : responses to conceptual and technical challenges / Volker Nienhaus -- 21. Concluding remarks / Simon Archer and Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim.