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The boom in Islamic banking is providing a crescent-shaped sliver of good news for the City, London's beleaguered financial district. It's fast becoming the main hub of Islamic banking outside the Middle East, a development encouraged by Britain's Labor government, which laid out the welcome mat to sharia-compliant banks several years ago. "The government sees it as another way to draw business to London, to bring investors to the U.K.," says Duncan McKenzie, director of economics at International Financial Services London.