General Electric may tap the Islamic bond market again in "the near future," after the company last year became the first US corporate to issue a sukuk, GE's president for the Middle East and Africa said on Monday.

"We were very excited about that issue, I think it was very successful," Nabil Habayeb, who is also GE's chief executive officer for the region, said at a press conference. "We will be looking at another set in the near future."