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April 16, 2012 Project Syndicate: Andrew Shang The Challenge of Islamic Finance by Andrew Shang Andrew Sheng, the chief adviser to China’s Bank Regulatory Commission, is a Professor at Tsinghua University’s Graduate School of Economics and Management and at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Previously, he served as Chairman of Hong Kong’s Securities...
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