Overview

Headquartered in Manama, Fajr Investment Advisory BSC (c) operates under a Category 3 Investment Company license issued by the Central Bank of Bahrain. Offering innovative solutions to the Islamic finance industry, Fajr is the only regulated, regional provider of Commodity Murabaha to MENA & International clients, transacting through its bespoke, e-platform cloud service.

Vision

Fajr is uniquely positioned as the longest standing provider to the Commodity Murabaha sector, giving its clients the confidence of a secure, professional service. Fajr also plays an instrumental role with its clients in evolving their requirements in the Islamic Capital markets, innovating new products and services such as: Structured trade finance and fund development in the commodities and clean tech/emissions markets, and also the Takaful sector.

About Us

Fajr Investment Advisory B.S.C.(c), was incorporated in May 2008 by Bahrain and UK investors with extensive collective experience in trading and Islamic finance, recognizing the requirement for a locally regulated group to meet opportunities in the Shari’a complaint capital markets.

Leveraging its Board’s expertise and through strong liaison with clients and Sharia advisors, Fajr has become the leading, regionally regulated provider of Commodity Murabaha and retail Tawarroq, to both private and public institutions in the MENA region.

With its strong links to the international trading fraternity and exchange traded markets, Fajr ensures the supply of compliant commodities such as Platinum Group Metals, LME Base Metals (i.e., Aluminum, Nickel, Copper etc.) and Crude Oil, as well as a range of locally supplied commodities. Fajr is also one of the few regional companies to hold membership of The London Metal Exchange.

Fajr Investment Advisory B.S.C.(c) works closely with its clients comprising more than 50 financial institutions, to provide expertise in transactional and regulatory procedures through its innovative electronic platform; a secure on-line cloud-based system designed exclusively to offer Islamic financial institutions with an efficient 24/7 commodity murabaha transaction service.

The electronic platform is fully compliant with industry standards to provide unique customer access and security, enabling purchase and sale transactions of diversified Sharia-compliant commodities, in an efficient and effective manner. It also delivers client access to real-time/historic transaction data and management accounts information, saving both time and costs.

Working closely with individual client banks, Fajr also develops in-house, bespoke white-labelled apps with compliant state of the art API-based system integration, to enhance clients’ retail business service.