MUSCAT: The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Alizz Islamic Bank expressed its appreciation of the sincere efforts made by the board and executive management to strengthen the Shari'a Supervisory Procedures, which in turn contributes to promoting the bank as a leading financial institution in the Islamic banking sector. This Annual General Meeting was held in the banks head office in Ruwi. It was chaired by Yahya Said al Jabri, Chairman of the board of directors and attended by shareholders and Sulaiman al Harthi, the Chief Executive Officer of the bank.
The board highlighted the bank’s role in promoting various packages of media and informative messages to increase awareness about the role played by Islamic banking and community initiatives. The bank, from time to time, appoints new resources with bright ideas to push Islamic banking forward. As part of these efforts, the general assembly approved the board’s proposal regarding the appointment of Shaikh Dr Ibrahim al Sawafi as a member in the Shari’a Supervisory Board.
In this context, Sulaiman al Harthi, Chief Executive Officer of Alizz Islamic Bank, said: “Our approach is based on a number of key principles, primarily investment in our communities and increasing media messages and packages to enhance awareness about the role of Islamic banking. Since I assumed my leadership position in the bank, I talked to the team about the importance of developing a prudent strategy so that Alizz Islamic Bank will be a leader of Islamic banking in the Sultanate. We already started implementation of this strategy by launching several initiatives, the last of which was ‘Manar Alizz : A will is a religious and cultural value’.
Such initiatives were widely welcomed as it revives the sunna practice of writing ‘wills’. We seek to implement this initiative across the governorates of the Sultanate. In addition, we launched the Orphan’s crowdfunding program in collaboration with the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs to support 1000 orphans in the Sultanate in aspects relating to financial management, as well as our Manar Alizz initiative that aims at increasing awareness about Islamic economy and its developmental role and the role of Islamic banks in sustainable economy, and providing researchers and scholars with necessary knowledge regarding Islamic economy, in general, and the Omani Islamic Banking experience, in particular. We have other initiatives in the pipeline to support the society.”
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