The school that trained famed chefs such as Anthony Bourdain and Cat Cora is selling $15 million of tax-exempt municipal bonds Tuesday to raise cash for renovations at its California facilities, one of which it bought late last year. In September, the non-profit educator will sell $42 million for improvements to its Hyde Park, New York, headquarters and, in a bit of fiscal housecleaning, retire more expensive debt and finance payments to end derivative contracts.

As more traditional universities struggle to attract students amid rising costs, the Culinary Institute, which calls itself the "world’s premier culinary college," has seen steady enrollment. The school says it wants to expand its programs to all facets of the food business as its almost 50,000 alumni have helped create a landscape where evenUK is the capital of Fintech for Islamic finance. There’s certainly movement in the UK to try to promote Islamic fintech, and for fintech firms in the UK to show the route forward for a lot of the Middle Eastern market.

Shariah-compliant Fintech products are also being welcomed in Malaysia, a country with an Islam-majority population. In March, the Malaysian government opened its doors for Fintech startups and companies to “test and launch” Shariah-compliant products for the region and the global Islamic finance market by using Malaysia as a test-bed.

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