NICE

NICE Ltd.

HALAL

Score: 89/100

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Is NICE Halal?

Cloud contact-center and customer-experience software — permissible enterprise SaaS business.

What You Should Know

NICE is a global enterprise software company specializing in cloud contact-center-as-a-service (CXone), customer-experience analytics, workforce-engagement management, and AI-driven conversational and agent automation. The company is a leader in the AI-augmented contact-center category alongside Genesys and Five9. Enterprise SaaS for customer service is unambiguously permissible. NICE operates a near-debt-free balance sheet, generates substantial free cash flow, and has historically been a clean pass on every standard Sharia screen at most major boards. NICE also has a compliance and financial-crime business (legacy from the Actimize line), which is anti-money-laundering and surveillance software sold to financial institutions; this is a permissible compliance-technology business and does not change the screen. Most major Islamic indices include NICE.

⚠️ Concerns

•Minor interest income on cash reserves
•Compliance/financial-crime software is sold to banks and financial institutions (permissible compliance technology)
•Some contact-center customers include gambling operators (general-purpose CCaaS, not the gambling product)