Academic literature on the topic 'Rastin PLS banking'

In addition to removing Riba in banking activities, and by observing Islamic banking principles, and creating safe and public confidence environment, Rastin Banking can lead to important positive effects on growth and economic welfare through money and capital markets. In this paper, we refer to the headings set forth in Rastin Banking and its pillars of Rastin PLS banking. Rastin Banking is a new approach in the banking industry.

Rastin Group Funding (RGF) makes mobilization of limited and determined depositor’s resources for a specific project possible and shares depositors in the outcome of the projects with the intent of benefit and via the bank according to Rastin Banking rules. In Rastin Group Funding, after evaluation of the project proposal, and by observing the rules of the PLS Base System or the applied Financial Subsystem defined in Rastin Banking and considering the Rastin Banking Executive Bylaw; bank mobilizes the pre-specified depositors’ resources for a specific project; and after receiving necessary collaterals and guarantees allocates them to entrepreneur and performs supervision over the project execution. Bank receives capital management fee by supplying capital management services to depositors.

Purpose: This paper aims to explain the organizational structure of Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) Banking. Rastin Banking is a full Islamic Banking System with all necessary parts for banking operations that can be installed in conventional and Islamic banks both.
 Design: Rastin Banking complies with the nature of the financial intermediary activity (the partnership of depositor in the yields of the fund receiver via the bank). To fulfill this goal, particular organizational structure, accompanying with instruments and workflow are defined.
 Findings: To handle Rastin Banking, particular theoretical and operational regulatory frameworks should be defined to fulfill the participation operations. In this paper, we will have a look at the necessary organizational structure to setup Rastin Banking.
 Research limitations: This plan was formed and tested in Bank Melli Iran in order to propose a model for other banks as well.
 Practical implications: In this system, the investment return of the participation is distributed to the parties of the financial partnership (depositor, entrepreneur, and bank), and it is done by eliminating fixed interest rate, and it is based on the real economy profit (return) of the activity.
 Social implications: Rastin Banking can lead to important positive effects on growth and economic welfare through money and capital markets. Interest rate as an essential factor in conventional banking is not usable in Islamic banking and other similar institutions that work based on partnership, such as mutual funds and saving and loan associations.
 Originality/value: Approach of this system is entirely different from conventional banking. In addition to removing usury in banking activities, Rastin Banking uses the best practical ethic finance to creating safe and public confidence environment for banking operations.
 Article Type: Technical paper

Installment Financial Sharing (IFS) is a subsystem of Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) Banking System, and the guidelines, instructions, organization, workflow and electronic mechanism of Rastin PLS Banking have been put forward for this subsystem as well. Profit in this financial sharing method is based upon the yield of the real sector, and bank as an intermediary of funds, receives a commission as like as an agent, and provides capital management and financial services to financer (depositor) and participates in investment project of the entrepreneur on behalf of the depositor. In installment Financial Sharing, the contribution of the depositor is paid back by installments and ownership of the project is finally transferred to entrepreneur.Financial innovations of "Mughasatah Certificate" and "Musharakah Mughasatah Certificate" and "Rental Mughasatah Certificate" are used in this subsystem. The financer (depositor) of sharing project receives a certificate, which is negotiable in Rastin Certificate Market via the internet.

To cover producers and consumers against future prices fluctuation risk, depositors can forward-purchase raw materials or products to be delivered at a specified time in the future through Bail Financial Sharing (BFS). Bail Financial Sharing is a subsystem of Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) banking system, and in this regard, instructions, organization and application methods, and electronic devices and contracts are similar to the context defined in the Base System of Rastin PLS banking system. Bail Financial Sharing (BFS) enjoys from Bail Certificate innovation, which can play an important role in stabilizing and increasing efficiency of money and financial markets. Depositor (financer) receives digital Bail Certificate for this kind of participation, which is negotiable in the secondary Rastin Certificate market. Regarding the characteristics of this certificate and its clear substantial differences with futures derivative, it prevents unreal paper markets formation. The latest owner of the certificate is the owner of the commodity. Moreover, the depositor can ask the bank that the entrepreneur sells the commodity and pays the money –instead of commodity- to him at the end of the contract.

Low rate of return of National Development Fund (NDFI) resources and the concern regarding Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) motivations and incentives to distort financing toward those investments and companies that are influenced by different political pressure groups and other types of corruptions are important problems with these funds.We try to propose a different financing procedure by using Rastin Banking mechanism and standards to fulfill both non-usury financial operations and fruitful supervised investments. This goal is achieved through Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) system through Rastin Certificates financial instruments. Moreover, the governments operationally construct SWFs to use their surplus resources of the prosperity period in recession and crises years. We also show that Asset and Liability Management (ALM) of SWFs can be done by using Rastin Swap Bonds (RSBs) that are other Rastin Banking financial instruments.The proposed procedures positively improve NDFI regarding corruption reduction, supervision, preventing usury, availability of resources, funds stability, transactable instruments, operational ALM, rate of return, risk of bad loans, outstanding claims and transparency.

Purpose: This paper aims to explain new insurance products and policies in Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) Banking. Rastin Banking is a full Islamic Banking System with all necessary parts for banking operations that can be installed in conventional and Islamic banks both. In this paper, we are going to explain the milestones of new insurance products and policies.
 Design: Rastin Banking complies with the nature of the intermediary financial activity and has a new type of banking operations. The systems and instruments of this type of banking have different risk treatments, and new insurance policy and measures should be defined to cover the risks of the operations In order to fulfill this goal, appropriate insurance policies are described.
 Findings: Some new insurance products are defined such as Certificate Insurance, Insurance of Market Value of Certificate, Responsibility/Engineering Insurance, Insurance of Accidents Concerning the Article of Sharing, Collateral Insurance, Loss Margin Insurance, Profit Margin Insurance, Merchandise Transportation Insurance, Production Equipment and Installations Insurance, Product Quality Insurance, Insurance of Commodity under Production, Inventory Insurance, Production Limited Loss Insurance, Transaction Limited Loss Insurance to handle Rastin Banking.
 Research limitations: Many of these insurance policies are new and require more elaborations for further practical development and adjustment.
 Practical implications: These insurance products can be used both in Rastin Banking operations as well as conventional business and finance arrangements. These insurance policies have no conflict with indisputable legal principles, and insurance companies can supply these insurance products based on their own actuary calculations.
 Social implications: The introduced insurance policies actually change profit and loss sharing activity to just profit sharing.
 Originality/value: Approach of this system and the designed insurance policies is entirely different and new.

Despite the interest of bankers for using Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS)[1] banking for the last decades, it has not prevailed yet executively. The existence of different definitions of Riba, absence of appropriate operational, supervisory, and managing mechanism on PLS are some reasons that haven't allowed this kind of banking to be practiced yet. Here, we are going to introduce a practical method for Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) banking to overcome these problems. In this bank, the basis for determination of interest rate of loans is real economy return rate. The bank operates as an intermediary, who gets commission fee, collects saving resources and as an attorney or legal representative of the depositor, allocates them to investment projects, and supervises the detailed operation of the contractor. The yields of the investment will transfer to resources owners who are depositors whatever profit or losses.The PLS banking is a banking system with newly defined instruments of Mosharaka and Pazireh that not only stabilizes the financial and economic markets by preventing the banks, loanees /entrepreneurs and design, construction and contractor sectors in the economy from bankruptcy during crisis periods and volatile markets, but also makes the banks as an international firm which perform similar jobs as stock exchange markets for transactions of PLS products certificates through a secondary certificate market on virtual internet space. Depositors will earn more stabilized benefits too.In this designed method, a trustee (Amin) is a unit who supervise the contractor/entrepreneur operations on behalf of the bank for being honesty in carrying out the project, controlling on executive operations along with announced programs, resources allocation manner, and auditing financial statements.PLS banking will use new financial instruments and innovations such as Mosharaka (partnership) Certificates for projects with specific ends and Pazireh (Subscripted) Certificates for endless (productive) projects. Establishing of secondary exchange market for the transaction of certificates, and various insurance services will play important roles for activating and increasing the efficiency of newly established virtual markets.All of the activities in this method will be done on the basis of compiled instructions. The framework and the organization of the PLS banking have been analyzed in forms of required committees, units, and departments tailored for this type of Non-Usury Bank (NubankCo.) definition.
 JEL:L86 ,L87 ,G21 ,G24
 [1] - This invention has been protected by US patent law under the application number: US 12/588,188

In addition to discuss economic cycle’s theories in this paper by decomposing money market into two markets of "saving-depositing" and "investment-credit facilities", we study the time structure behavior of depositor-bank-investor and conclude that the traditional banking structure creates fluctuations in money sector and interest rate. These fluctuations affect the real sector through saving and investment and undulate the economy as well. Mathematical derivations show that banking structure is one of the main factors of economic cycles. Therefore, the abolition of usury (Riba) is proposed as the solution to relate directly investment to saving via The Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing Banking. In this framework, the bank offers investment management services and obtains commission. In The Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing Banking risks are practically transferred from credit facility sector (loans) to deposit sector and bank does not face any losses. On the other hand, the creation of a strong structural relationship between the interest rate of deposits and credit facility interest rate does not let any losses to occur in the capital market while there is profit in the deposit market. This concept is against the conventional banking system in which if the borrower obtains profit or loss; he has to pay interest (profit) to the depositor.The second pathological defect of economic crisis is the excessive consumption and economic greed and similar bad habits which expand economic cycles. The adjustment of mankind behavior, according to Islamic and other divine religions ethical and mystical tuitions, will practically prevent the intensity of crises. Prevention of extravagance frees a large portion of economic resources, and therefore, the magnitude of the business cycle will be reduced, and economic stability will be relatively increased.

Despite development and extension of different ways of financing in financial markets, encompassing Islamic and conventional financing, the mechanism of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) of project financing both as borrowed and non-borrowed methods has not been considered at most. Moreover overall IT infrastructures development namely Real Gross Settlement System (RTGS), Automatic Clearing House (ACH), Scriptless Security Settlement System (SSSS) and International Bank Account Number (IBAN) for authentication process and the international meta bank network of Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) and also international integrated banking networks including the Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) and Interbank Information Transfer Network (Shetab), and other accomplished endeavors are not efficient in absorbing international contributions for project financing through foreign exchange funds in the different countries, satisfactory E-Payment mechanism in informative portal systems for investment projects are weak. In this way, the role of applying E-Payment systems for attracting foreign investment through retail resources mobilization and design of financial instruments with the capability of transacting in the secondary markets should be reconsidered. In this paper by having a glance at different types of investment project financing, we introduce a new project financing mechanism based on E-Payment with non-usury financial instruments to complete investment project financing chain in the form of Rastin Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) banking.Sharia compliance of financing instruments in one side and accessibility in absorbing international retail foreign exchange sources on other side are two fundamental discussible items in this paper. In this way by designing a new system of "Non-Usury Scriptless Security Settlement System" (NSSSS) with non-usury mechanisms -avoiding legislative (Sharia) circumvention- can provide the two cited goals in designing non-usury financing instruments through IT-based non-usury financial innovations which includes of Rastin Certificates in Rastin PLS banking, and Non-Usury Bonds namely Rastin Swap Bonds.