Journal of finance and Islamic banking is a journal published by Sharia Banking Department IAIN Surakarta twice a year (January-June and July-December). As the name implies, this journal brings two major themes, namely Islamic Finance and Islamic Banking. The journal invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit articles to the management team. Articles submitted will be published after being verified and modified to suit the standard international journals.

Journal of finance and Islamic banking limited only publish articles related to two major themes that have been mentioned. First, Islamic finance includes all submissions related to Islamic finance only. Specifically is divided into two, namely Islamic monetary and microfinance. Islamic monetary can be broken down into a variety of examples of topics such as Islamic monetary system, sharia capital markets, ZISWAF (Zakat, Infaq, Sadaqah and Waqf), dinar and so forth. Subsequently, submissions related to sharia microfinance can be illustrated in a variety of topics related to sharia microfinance institutions; the cooperative sharia and Baitul Maal wa Tamwil (BMT).

The the second major theme is the Islamic Banking. The study of Islamic banking include all submissions related to Islamic banking, be it management, marketing, accounting, product, systems, and others. Specifically theme Islamic banking translated into various examples such as the role of Islamic bank in macroeconomics, funding of Islamic banks, Islamic banks products, systems technology, entrepreneurship program of Islamic banks, and so on.

Besides limited to two major themes above, this articles prioritizes posts that have a value interesting discussion. The attractiveness of the indicators measured of content writing that contains IMRaD (Introduction, Method, Reseach, and Discuss). The articles does not classify the types of journals whether qualitative or quantitative, as long as the text does not contain plagiarism and we do not receive article has been publishing in other journals before