• Standard Chartered report flags Islamic finance shifting from funding tool to cross-border connector for capital flows, trade finance, digital infrastructure.
• Islamic finance assets total about USD 6 trillion across nearly 100 jurisdictions, with liquidity increasingly routed into emerging-market investment corridors.
• Only 6% of global sukuk capital reaches South Asia and Africa, pointing to a gap between capital needs and deployment.
• New Islamic trade and investment channels center on GCC, China, Middle East-Türkiye, reshaping trade finance, payments, settlement demand.
• Tokenization seen as potential efficiency driver for Shariah-compliant investment, contingent on stronger legal certainty, interoperability, custody, governance.

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