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Retail Islamic Financial Services In North America: The (Upper) Michigan Connection, Brian A. Zinser
Retail Islamic Financial Services In North America: The (Upper) Michigan Connection, Brian A. Zinser
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how a small remote Midwestern bank reformulated itself into a major marketer of retail Islamic financial services in the United States and influenced Islamic financial services marketing in North America. The paper is based on a review of existing literature and a case study of how University Bank, now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has become the leading providerof Islamic financial services in the United States. University Bank whose principals are Roman Catholic identified the Muslim market in Southeast Michigan as measurable, differentiable, accessible and substantial. As part of the Bank’s reformulation …