Report: Training gap overshadows Malaysia's Islamic finance growth


KUALA LUMPUR: Finding a job is often harder than expected for graduates hoping to enter Malaysia's Islamic banking industry, the world's second-largest with US$124 billion in assets - employers are proving choosy about qualifications.

Thousands of students, a large number of them Muslims from across the globe, have flocked to the many Islamic finance courses offered in Malaysia, seeing them as springboards to a career.

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