Secretary-General of the IFSB Jaseem Ahmed said, “In the context of the heightened awareness of vulnerability of all financial systems to a range of risks, the PSIFI provides a new tool for monitoring the soundness and stability of Islamic finance.
"The support of multilateral organisations – such as the IMF, ADB and IDB – have greatly assisted the progress on this project. It is our aim to continue to expand the scope of the PSIFI to include the participation of new jurisdictions, as well as expansion of data to the Islamic capital market and takāful sectors of the industry.”
PSIFIs aim to provide data on the financial soundness and growth of the Islamic banking systems in participating IFSB member jurisdictions. The first set of data was released on 27 April 2015 covering the period up to December 2013. The second release adds the indicators for the four quarters of 2014, with necessary adjustments and revisions to the earlier data set. It thus provides more complete data than the earlier release as many member jurisdictions have improved their data collection and consolidation framework for the Islamic banking industry in line with the requirements of PSIFI project.
The Task Force on PSIFIs – which includes representatives from 16 member jurisdictions as well as international organisations such as the IMF – updated some indicators after the first release to enhance their clarity and consistency across jurisdictions. In the new release, a number of jurisdictions have also started reporting of the data on macro-prudential indicators such as assets held by domestic systemically important banks, leverage ratio, as well as liquidity coverage ratio (LCR).
The countries participating in this project are: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkey.
The IFSB is now collecting data for the first two quarters of 2015 which will be targeted for dissemination in Q1 of 2016.
The complete PSIFI Database, including metadata, is available on the PSIFI portal at the IFSB website
Read the IFSB PSIFI Brief for more background \