The response has been simply overwhelming and bears testimony to the eagerness of each and everyone here to learn more about Islamic finance. We are acutely aware of the need to build up rapidly a local pool of experts in Islamic  4  BIS Review 62/2009  finance. Seminars such as these provide the appropriate platform for sharing and developing expertise.
A bridge has been created between the IFSB and Mauritius and we hope to be able to organize other seminars and workshops in future. We are confident that this will create the necessary synergies to enable Islamic finance to gather momentum in our part of the world.