Publication:
Do sukuk credit ratings create a value effect?
Abstract
The Islamic finance industry has shown an extraordinary accomplishment in the last decade. A major contributor to this success can be attributed to a significant increase in sukuk issuance: from US$ 1.172 million in 2001 to US$ 138 billion in 2013. Malaysia is the world's largest sukuk market with about US$ 430.579 billion of the total US$ 551.357 billion of domestic sukuk in the financial world, a whopping 78.09% of the total global domestic sukuk market. This significant development has necessitated the need for an effective credit rating mechanism for the Sukuk issuance. Credit rating has become an important instrument to assesses the creditworthiness of an issuer, most often based on the history of the issuer's borrowing and repayment, its underlying assets, its outstanding liabilities and its overall business performance (Arundina, Azmi Omar, & Kartiwi, 2015).
Keywords
Sukuk , Credit rating , Islamic capital markets , Islamic finance
Citation
Al Homsi, Mahmoud. (2016). Do sukuk credit ratings create a value effect? CIAWM Bulletin, 2 (2016), pp. 14-16.
Publisher
CIAWM