RFI Insights is a data portal designed to share the results of the RFI Foundation’s research in a more accessible format for financial sector stakeholders and others to support the development of responsible finance in Islamic markets. The first data available on this new website will allow anyone interested in the intersection of ESG and Islamic finance to dig into the results of RFI Foundation’s groundbreaking study conducted with INCEIF. That research study looked at the investment performance impacts of combining environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens with Shari’ah screens.
RFI Insights also includes six country reports that RFI Foundation has completed analyzing the financed emissions of Islamic markets including Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh. These reports present the country-level findings of our top-down estimates for financed emissions risk across several Islamic markets encompassing bank and capital market assets across the entire economy.