In Room 4-370 at MIT (www.whereis.mit.edu)

Dr. Yahia Abdul-Rahman, the CEO of LaRiba Bank will speak about Riba-Free Banking in the US.

Dr. Yahia is known as the Father of Islamic banking in North America. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the Investment Banking industry with CitiGroup / Smith Barney where he started and co-managed the first ever Shari’aa compliant stock portfolio that was a precursor to the Dow Jones Islamic Index. Dr. Yahia was a member of the team that started the Industrial Bank of Kuwait and also started banks in Houston, Texas and in Kazakhstan. He started “American Finance House – LARIBA” in 1987 and the first Riba-Free National Bank in America: LARIBA Bank of Whittier, NA in 1998, using capital and assets exclusively from the American Muslim community. LARIBA and LARIBA Bank of Whittier serve all 50 US states. External Event Url
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States