Comparative analysis of regulation and supervision of Islamic banking between Malaysia and Gambia

This paper attempts to provide analyse the regulation and supervision of Islamic bank in Malaysia and the Gambia. Islamic banking first gained its appearance in Egypt at Mit Ghamar by Ahmed El Najjar in 1963. As a result this paper aimed to discuss and analyse on regulation and supervision between Malaysia and the Gambia. Islamic banking has experience worldwide acceptance by early 2003. During that period, there were at least 255 Islamic banks around the world. It is also evidenced through pass studies that Islamic banking has developed tremendously within the past decades. However the industry is still not great as conventional in almost all the operating regions. This implies that there are still lot to be done in terms of issues facing the industry. It signals that majority of banking users in all operating areas still have not adopted and it might not have been aware of the Islamic banking system. Regionally, operations and models in the operation of Islamic banking are different. As a result, this study will look and analyses issue that are principally similar and will also look into operational difference that are peculiar to each nation and way forward. The study basically compares on the development standard, models issues and challenges on regulation and supervision of Islamic banking between these two nations. This study uses a qualitative approach. This study discovers that in Malaysia and Gambia banking institutions have a different Islamic banking system