Ethis Group wins second GIFA Award

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Ethis Group wins second GIFA Award


Ethis continues to set the usual, as the most recent award validates it as a frontrunner and pioneer inside the Islamic fintech and Islamic Crowdfunding sectors.

Ethis Group’s a number of crowdfunding licenses, together with the most recent from Oman, and its varied strategic partnerships sign the corporate’s evolution into a worldwide firm 

15 September 2022, Djibouti- Moral and Islamic funding and social finance platform operator, Ethis Group, just lately obtained its second Greatest Islamic Crowdfunding Platform award on the 12th World Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA). Ethis Group’s newest accomplishment takes the pioneer to new heights of excellence, significantly in world Islamic crowdfunding and, extra broadly, Islamic fintech. 

Ethis Co-Founder and Ethis Indonesia CEO, Ronald Yusuf Wijaya accepted the award throughout a ceremony held at Djibouti Palace Kempinski on September 14, 2022. The celebrated GIFA is without doubt one of the most extremely coveted and respectable market-led awards in Islamic banking and finance that recognises governments, establishments, and people who’ve exhibited excellent achievements contributing to the sustainability of Islamic banking and finance.

“Again in 2016, when Ethis gained this similar award for the primary time, I used to be cheering them on with the assumption that they might make a dent within the Islamic finance universe. At present, because the Chairman of the board, I’m really pleased with our progress, achievements and breakthroughs, which place us very strongly to proceed main and breaking new floor for Islamic fintech globally,” mentioned Daud Vicary, the Chairman of the Ethis Group Board of Advisors. 

The award follows shut on the heels of the Group’s latest notable achievements, which embody acquiring a crowdfunding license from the Capital Market Authority, the Sultanate of Oman’s regulator to run world crowdfunding actions by way of EthisX, the first-of-its-kind cross-border Moral Non-public Capital Market. With the addition of the brand new license, Ethis now holds three crowdfunding licenses from three completely different nations: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Oman. Ethis Group has additionally obtained conditional licensing by the Labuan Monetary Providers for fund administration exercise.

Notable partnerships embody the just lately established US$20 million Shariah-compliant co-fund between Ethis Group and Gobi Companions to shut by the top of 2022, in addition to the institution of a three way partnership with Singapore-based IBF DigiLabs to develop Islamic Worth Analytics, an AI-driven data-powered expertise to measure, monitor, and amplify optimistic social and environmental affect in opposition to targets set by the Shariah and the United Nation’s SDGs framework.

Based in 2014, Ethis focuses on sustainable and affect crowd investments, fundraising and donations. It operates regulated platforms in Malaysia, Indonesia and Oman, has secured mushy approvals from regulators in Dubai and Qatar and is at the moment increasing into a number of different jurisdictions together with Saudi and Turkey. 

As pioneers in Islamic Fintech, the Ethis co-founders additionally play a major position in constructing and main the Islamic Fintech business as leaders inside the area. Group MD and Co-Founder Umar Munshi is the Chairman of the Islamic Fintech Alliance and Ethis Co-Founder and Ethis Indonesia CEO Ronald Yusuf Wijaya is the President of the Indonesia Sharia Fintech Affiliation.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:

ABOUT ETHIS GROUP

Ethis Group operates crowd-investment platforms accredited by regulators in Indonesia, Malaysia and Oman.

Our platforms serve strange folks, high-net-worth people, and company, and authorities entities. Ethis constructed our preliminary monitor document from 2016 to 2020 in social housing in Indonesia the place our world neighborhood of buyers from greater than 50 nations funded improvement tasks to construct near 10,000 properties. Most just lately, we launched EthisX, the cross-border Moral Non-public Capital Market Platform. 

For the reason that onset of COVID-19, now we have launched well-liked new funding merchandise, together with short-term, high-yield supply-chain financing tasks in Indonesia and fairness funding in ‘future tech’ startups in Malaysia. Our social finance market GlobalSadaqah performs an important position in matching donors and Islamic financial system gamers to raised distribute social finance and zakat to NGOs and social enterprises. EthisX goals to handle the shortage of availability of Shariah-compliant and moral various funding and financing in rising and developed non-Muslim nations with sizeable sufficient Muslim populations. 

We exist to #circulategood. Our deep need to create a extra moral type of finance to uplift humanity has attracted vital finance and neighborhood leaders to help our imaginative and prescient and mission.

For extra details about Ethis Group, please go to https://ethis.co

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Anis Muslimin

Senior Supervisor, Advertising and marketing and Communication 

Ethis World Sdn. Bhd

E-mail: anismuslimin@ethis.co

Tel: +6 011 1639 0920

Afiqah Abdul Aziz

Public Relation and Advertising and marketing Government 

Ethis World Sdn. Bhd

E-mail: afiqah@ethis.co

Tel: +6 012 304 5041