Drivers of income diversification in credit unions: Do size, resource, liquidity, and environment matter?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Amoah ◽  
Godfred A. Bokpin ◽  
Kwaku Ohene‐Asare ◽  
A. Q. Q. Aboagye
Keyword(s):  
Credit Unions ◽  
Income Diversification

Income structure, diversification strategy and owners’ benefit in cooperative financial institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-500
Author(s):  
Hoang Van Cuong ◽  
Hiep Ngoc Luu ◽  
Loan Quynh Thi Nguyen ◽  
Vu Tuan Chu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
Credit Union ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Diversification Strategy ◽  
Income Diversification ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Common Bond

PurposeThe purposes of this paper are twofold. First, it analyses the income structure in cooperative financial institutions and examines how traditional and non-traditional incomes are related. Second, it evaluates whether increasing diversification towards non-traditional incomes facilitates or hampers the benefits of financial cooperative owners.Design/methodology/approachData are collected from over 3,100 US credit unions over the period of 1994–2016. A number of modern econometric techniques are employed throughout the analysis, including the use of panel fixed effect, generalised method of moments (GMM) and two-stage least square (2SLS) methodologies.FindingsUsing US credit unions as the empirical setting, the empirical results reveal that the expansion of traditional income leads to a corresponding increase in income from non-traditional activities. However, an increasing reliance on non-traditional income causes a significant drop in interest margins. The authors also find that the extent to which income diversification affects owner benefit varies across credit union types and period of time. While income diversification negatively affects owners' benefits in single common bond credit unions, it has no significant influence on multiple common bond and community credit union owners' benefits. Third, diversification can be beneficial during crisis time, but can be detrimental to owner benefit during normal time.Originality/valueThis paper provides some of the first empirical investigations on the diversification strategy of cooperative financial institutions. Therefore, the results offer significant policy implications for policymakers and market participants on whether financial cooperatives should diversify or specialise.

ANALYSIS OF THE ACTIVITY AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREDIT UNIONS IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.M. Krykhovetska ◽  
L.R. Foros
Keyword(s):  
Credit Unions

Income Diversification and Bank Efficiency in Vietnam

2017 ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Sang Nguyen Minh
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
Commercial Banking ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Income Diversification ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Impact

This study uses the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method to estimate the technical efficiency index of 34 Vietnamese commercial banks in the period 2007-2015, and then it analyzes the impact of income diversification on the operational efficiency of Vietnamese commercial banks through a censored regression model - the Tobit regression model. Research results indicate that income diversification has positive effects on the operational efficiency of Vietnamese commercial banks in the research period. Based on study results, in this research some recommendations forpolicy are given to enhance the operational efficiency of Vietnam’s commercial banking system.

Growth of Credit Unions

1963 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Leslie B. Schwinn
Keyword(s):  
Credit Unions

STATE REGULATION OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKET IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Akimova ◽  
Alla Vasilievna Lysachok
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
State Pension

The essence of such concepts is “financial service”, “financial ser- vices market”, and “participants of the financial services market”; determined the purpose of state regulation of the financial services market; forms of state regu- lation of the financial services market; financial services that are present in the financial services market; the structure of state regulation bodies of the financial services market in Ukraine is given; The role of state bodies in the regulation of the financial services market was studied; to characterize the regulatory le- gal regulation of the financial services market in Ukraine; the main problems of functioning of the domestic market of financial services are revealed; ways to solve existing problems. It is grounded that the state regulation of financial ser- vices markets consists in the state’s implementation of a set of measures aimed at regulating and overseeing financial services markets to protect the interests of financial services consumers and preventing crisis phenomena. It is concluded that the financial services market is an important element of the development of the economy as a whole, in particular, it concerns not only the state but also society. We must understand that when this market is settled, that is, all bodies that carry out state regulation are competent in their powers, only then will we make informed, effective decisions about the normal and effective functioning of the RFP. It is important that the data of the subjects of control do not overlap, their activities should be fixed at the legislative level. It is also worth bearing in mind that appropriate conditions must be created to create compensatory mecha- nisms in the financial services markets by developing a system for guarante- eing deposits and providing for payments under long-term life insurance contracts, non-state pension provisions, deposits with deposit accounts to credit unions, etс.

Credit Unions-(Continued)

1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Lewis Froman
Keyword(s):  
Credit Unions

Developing a socio-psychological model explaining farmers’ income diversification in response to groundwater scarcity in Iran

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi ◽  
Ann Kinzig ◽  
Hallie Eakin ◽  
Joshua K. Abbott ◽  
Reza Sedaghat
Keyword(s):  
Income Diversification ◽  
Psychological Model

scholarly journals The Effect of Bundling Trade Association Monitoring and Female Board Representation on Loan Losses in Community Credit Unions

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110014
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Ward ◽  
John Forker ◽  
Barry Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Agency Theory ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
Credit Union ◽  
Trade Association ◽  
Complementary Effect ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Board Representation ◽  
Loan Losses ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Loan book management is important to community credit union survival, particularly in deprived localities. Consistent with agency theory, prior studies of credit unions report an association among individual monitoring mechanisms, trade association monitoring, and female board representation, respectively, and reduced loan losses. This study provides a more nuanced understanding by investigating the moderating influence of these monitoring mechanisms on the relationship between loan losses and deprivation and by considering the effect of bundle combinations of different levels of the two monitoring mechanisms on loan losses. The results reveal that credit unions subject to trade association monitoring have the lowest loan losses. However, in the absence of trade association monitoring, female board representation has a moderating effect on loan losses as deprivation increases. Finally, trade association monitoring and female board representation have a substitutive, rather than a complementary effect on loan losses.

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