Islamic Finance Guru

Islamic Finance Guru (IFG) is the UK’s leading platform for halal financial education and investment, built around a simple but powerful mission: to help Muslim communities worldwide achieve financial equality. The platform addresses a structural gap in the financial services market — the majority of conventional investment, savings, and lending products involve interest or activities prohibited under Sharia law, leaving observant Muslims with dramatically fewer options for building wealth. IFG was founded to close that gap with accessible, expert analysis and, eventually, direct investment products.

What began as a blog written by two solicitors in their spare time has grown into a multi-product financial services business. IFG’s content platform reaches over four million people across its social channels and more than 100,000 monthly website visitors, covering everything from Islamic mortgage comparisons to Sharia-compliant investment reviews, halal ISA guidance, and zakat calculation tools. Its investment arm, Cur8 Capital, has grown to over £120 million in assets under management across real estate, fixed income, and private equity funds, all structurally vetted for Sharia compliance. IFG has also invested in and supported fintech companies building products for the Muslim consumer market, including Kestrl and Niyyah.

Islamic Finance Guru raised £3.8 million to accelerate its transformation from trusted media brand into the definitive financial platform for the estimated 1.8 billion Muslims globally — a community it argues has been consistently excluded from mainstream financial wealth-creation pathways. The funding is directed towards building out its product suite, deepening its investment offerings, and expanding its reach internationally, particularly to Muslim-majority markets and diaspora communities in the UK, US, and Gulf.