Japan investors interested in Islamic products-report

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 - Japanese investors have expressed interest in developing Islamic capital market products, a local newspaper quoted Aseambankers Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Rashdan Mohammed Yusof as saying on Tuesday.

Yusof did not name the interested Japanese companies or provide a timeframe of the proposed deal but said Aseambankers, the investment banking arm of Malaysia's state-controlled top lender Maybank , plans to develop the sukuk market in Japan.

"We are seriously looking into this market," the Business Times newspaper quoted Yusof as saying.