Are Islamic Banks Really More Solvent Than Conventional Banks in a Financially Stable Period?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 346-366
Author(s):  
Achraf Haddad ◽  
Anis El Ammari ◽  
Abdelfettah Bouri

The knowledge value produced by this research was established in particular by the methodological challenges of the comparative study. Based on a process of bibliographic research, available conditional observation and the using of the Financial Ratio Analysis Method, the objective of this article is to solve the ambiguity of previous comparative research and innovated an equiprobable comparison between the solvencies of conventional and Islamic banks over the period (2010-2018). Our study is not only a matter of dealing generically with the financial solvency of conventional and Islamic banks but also, we analyzed the inherent implications that may alter the results of a banks’ operative evaluation. Two samples were taken from two reference populations existing in the selected countries. The choice of banks is limited to countries whose banking systems incorporate both Islamic and conventional banks. Subsequently, each list bank was reduced based on qualitative and quantitative filtering criteria. Therefore, each conventional bank has its closest Islamic equivalence. This restriction reduced the sample size to 63 banks each. The selected banks are all large and listed in different stock exchanges. In conclusion, we found that conventional banks are more solvent than Islamic banks during a financial stable period.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achraf HADDAD ◽  
Anis EL AMMARI ◽  
Abdelfettah BOURI

The knowledge value produced by this research was established in particular by the methodological challenges of the comparative study. Based on a process of bibliographic research, available conditional observation and necessary statistical tests, we innovated an equiprobable comparison between the solvencies of conventional and Islamic banks over the period (2010-2018). Our study is not only a matter of dealing generically with the financial solvency question of conventional and Islamic banks, but also, we analysed the inherent implications and difficulties that may alter the results and influence the establishment of an operative evaluation of financial institutions. Two samples were taken from two reference populations. The core populations are all existing conventional and Islamic banks in the selected countries. The choice of banks is limited to countries whose banking systems incorporate both Islamic and conventional banks regardless of the proportion of each system in the country's banking market. Subsequently, each list bank was reduced on the basis of qualitative and quantitative filtering criteria. Therefore, each conventional bank has its closest Islamic equivalence in terms of capital and size taken from the same country. This restriction reduced the sample size to 63 banks each. The selected banks are all large and listed in different stock exchanges around the world. In conclusion, we found that conventional banks are more solvent than Islamic banks during a financial stable period.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achraf Haddad ◽  
Anis El Ammari ◽  
Abdelfettah Bouri

Due to the failure of several conventional banks and the closure of some Islamic banks around the world, both types are exposed to the risk of liquidation and bankruptcy. Theoretically, knowledge production has until recently been the monopoly of academic research (Vinck, 2000). The choice of the most liquid type of bank and which maximizes the liquidity of its customers is a problem to be solved. Since most of the previous studies that have dealt with relative or comparative banking liquidity are unconfirming, our research interest is to overcome these constraints in order to provide a more optimistic answer. Two samples were removed from two reference populations over the period (2010-2018). Samples were selected from 16 countries. Basic populations consist of all existing conventional and Islamic banks in the selected countries. The choice of banks is limited to countries whose banking systems incorporate both types. Subsequently, the list for each type of banks was reduced on the basis of qualitative and quantitative filtering criteria. Therefore, each conventional bank has its closest Islamic equivalence in terms of capital and size taken from the same country. This restriction reduced the sample size to 63 large banks each. All selected banks were listed in different stock exchanges around the world. Empirical results showed that Islamic banks are more liquid than conventional banks during a financial stable period.


Author(s):  
Arindam Banerjee

Banking framework establishes the central mainstay of any economy. Banks functions as monetary conduits between sectors that have abundance reserves and those that are in deficiency. The historical backdrop of banking in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) traces all the way back to 1918 with the foundation of the primary bank in Bahrain. The territorial financial evolution is attributable to oil abundance and loaning business that spotlights on building, land and client advances. Throughout the long term, the financial framework worldwide has advanced in its contributions to suit the changing customer requests. One of the essential determinants of this change came about because of the strict convictions of individuals bringing about the remarkable development of Islamic Banking System. The prevalence of these banks are in nations with critical Muslim populace like Iran, Pakistan and Sudan but not limited to them. Islamic banks work under Sharia standards of hazard sharing and premium preclusion as appeared differently in relation to customary banks that purchase cash-flow to pool assets and offer cash-flow to produce revenue pay or benefit. This paper applies banks' endogenic elements identified with their monetary record and pay explanation and utilizing an aggregate of 24 financial ratios relating to the banks’ performance and seeks to thoroughly analyze the same among customary and Islamic banks. This examination clarifies the design, activity and the board of traditional banks in the GCC combined with the working of Islamic banks. The paper likewise intends to decide the beneficial and proficient banks among the chosen sample. The study incorporates 20 institutions, similarly dispersed among Islamic and customary banks utilizing information between the time of 2014 - 2017. The example is comprehensively ordered dependent on benefit ratios, proficiency ratios, asset indicator ratios and risk ratios. Further sub categorization is done to show up at an aggregate of 24 ratios. An independent T-test is used to determine a substantial ratio between Islamic and conventional banks.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tariq Majeed ◽  
Abida Zainab

PurposeIn recent years, the fast growth of Islamic banks (IBs) has generated debates among policymakers and economists about the sustainability and performance of these institutions. This paper aims to undertake a comparative analysis of the financial performance of IBs and conventional banks (CBs) in Pakistan over the period 2008–2019 to evaluate how IBs are faring compared to their conventional peers.Design/methodology/approachThis paper considers financial ratio analysis (FRA) to analyze and compare the performance of the top-10 IBs and CBs operating in Pakistan. The sample includes five full-fledged IBs and five CBs which offer Islamic windows in Pakistan. We have selected the top-5 best performing CBs offering Islamic windows. This study offers a comparative analysis of Islamic v/s conventional banks.FindingsThe results show that Islamic banks are better capitalized, less risky and have higher liquidity. In contrast, the profit of Islamic banks is found lower than CBs. The logical reasoning behind these performance indicators has been discussed in detail.Research limitations/implicationsThe study has provided an analysis of financial performance only for Pakistan. A cross-country analysis could be more representative of the performance of Islamic Banks.Practical implicationsThe size of Islamic banking industry should be enhanced by opening new branches and promoting Islamic finance literacy.Originality/valueThe study assists investors, borrowers and managers in making better decisions. It also provides the latest valuable information to regulators and policymakers in making rules and policies for the financial industry in Pakistan.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achraf Haddad ◽  
Anis El Ammari ◽  
Abdelfettah Bouri

According to the literature review, the analysis results of the impact of ownership structure quality on financial performance within conventional and Islamic financial institutions are contradictory. In our study, we performed a fine differential analysis aimed at resolving this ambiguity. The financial performance and ownership structure variables of conventional and Islamic banks were collected from 16 countries located in three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa. Two samples were collected that each of them is composed of 63 banks. By using the OLS method, these panel data were compared to the impact of ownership structure on the financial performance between both types of banks in the agency theory framework during the period 2010-2018, giving us 567 bank-year observations in each sub-sample. Results revealed that the ownership structure of conventional banks has had an explained ambiguous impact on its financial performance, whereas that of Islamic banks has a positive effect. Overall, the impacts of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) shareholding and the board’s chairman shareholding are more significant on the financial performance of conventional banks than those of impacts related to Islamic banks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayel Ramadhan ◽  
Mohammad Selim ◽  
Ahmad Sahwan

The main purpose of this study is to identify the variables that influence the financial performance of both types of banks, Islamic and conventional, and compare their financial performance over the period of 2003–2016. Banks listed on the Bahrain Bourse as of December 31, 2016 were used in the study, with a total of seven banks, of which three are Islamic and four are conventional. To make an appropriate comparative study, financial ratio analysis is used. Multiple regression and paired sample t-test are used to analyze the data. Return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) are considered as the basis for measuring financial performance and are set as dependent variables. The analysis of the results shows that conventional banks perform better than Islamic banks in terms of profitability. The results also show that ROA is significantly related to risk, cost of intermediation and efficiency ratios, while ROE is highly influenced by risk ratios only. Moreover, it was found out that the relationship between asset size and the performance of banks is insignificant, while the relationship between the number of branches and both ROA and ROE is significant.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Azwar

This study aims to compare the financial performance of conventional commercial banks with sharia commercial banks in Indonesia in the period 2012-2016 using financial ratios. The financial ratios used consist of CAR, NPL, ROA, BOPO and LDR. The type of research used in this study is quantitative research. The data used in this study are data of bank financial statements for 2012 to 2016 obtained through several websites from the bank concerned. The sampling method used was purposive sampling, based on the sample selection criteria, obtained a sample of 6 banks, 3 banks for Islamic commercial banks and 3 banks for conventional commercial banks. Data analysis techniques used to compare the performance of conventional commercial banks with Islamic commercial banks are normality test and independent sample t-test. Analysis shows that there are significant differences between the financial performance of conventional banks and Islamic banks. Based on the comparison of financial ratio analysis, conventional bank financial performance is better in terms of CAR, NPL, ROA and BOPO ratios, while the financial performance of Islamic banks is better in terms of LDR ratio


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosylin Mohd Yusof ◽  
Farrell Hazsan Usman ◽  
Akhmad Affandi Mahfudz ◽  
Ahmad Suki Arif

Purpose This study aims to investigate the interactions among macroeconomic variable shocks, banking fragility and home financing provided by conventional and Islamic banks in Malaysia. Identifying the causes of financial instability and the effects of macroeconomic shocks can help to foil the onset of future financial turbulence. Design/methodology/approach The autoregressive distributed lag bound-testing cointegration approach, impulse response functions (IRFs) and forecast error variance decomposition are used in this study to unravel the long-run and short-run dynamics among the selected macroeconomic variables and amount of home financing offered by both conventional and Islamic banks. In addition, the study uses Granger causality tests to investigate the short-run causalities among the selected variables to further understand the impact of one macroeconomic shock to Islamic and conventional home financing. Findings This study provides evidence that macroeconomic shocks have different long-run and short-run effects on amount of home financing offered by conventional and Islamic banks. Both in the long run and short run, home financing provided by Islamic banks is more linked to real sector economy and thus is more stable as compared to home financing provided by conventional banks. The Granger causality test reveals that only gross domestic product (GDP), Kuala Lumpur Syariah Index (KLSI)/Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) and house price index (HPI) are found to have a statistically significant causal relationship with home financing offered by both conventional and Islamic banks. Unlike the case of Islamic banks, conventional home financing is found to have a unidirectional causality with interest rates. Research limitations/implications This study has focused on analyzing the macroeconomic shocks on home financing. However, this study does not assess the impact of financial deregulation and enhanced information technology on amount of financing offered by both conventional and Islamic banks. In addition, it is not within the ambit of this present study to examine the effects of agency costs and information asymmetry. Practical implications The analysis of cointegration and IRFs exhibits that in the long run and short run, home financing provided by Islamic banks are more linked to real sector economy like GDP and House Prices (HPI) and therefore more resilient to economic vulnerabilities as compared to home financing provided by conventional banks. However, in the long run, both conventional and Islamic banks are more susceptible to fluctuations in interest rates. The results of the study suggest that monetary policy ramifications to improve banking fragility should focus on stabilizing interest rates or finding an alternative that is free from interest. Social implications Because interest plays a significant role in pricing of home loans, the potential of an alternative such as rental rate is therefore timely and worth the effort to investigate further. Therefore, Islamic banks can explore the possibility of pricing home financing based on rental rate as proposed in this study. Originality/value This paper examines the unresolved issues in Islamic home financing where Islamic banks still benchmark their products especially home financing, to interest rates in dual banking system such as in the case of Malaysia. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, studies conducted in this area are meager and therefore is imperative to be examined.


Author(s):  
Normaizatul Akma Saidi Et.al

Banks play a significant role in financing the economy and take on risky financial activities based on information and trust as they specialized companies with their own specificities. This study was propelled to unravel the determinants that affect financial risk (liquidity risk and credit risk) for conventional and Islamic banks. The bank-level data of conventional and Islamic banks in the regions of Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia between 2006 and 2014 were collected from the Bankscope, which is a commercial database produced by the Bureau van Dijk. Thus, for conventional banks the obtained results exhibited significantly positive relationship between regulatory quality towards liquidity risk. Then, the relationship between regulatory quality towards credit risk was negatively significant for conventional banks. Meanwhile, as for Islamic banks, the relationship between government effectiveness and regulatory quality towards financial risk was insignificant. Hence, the regulators or policymakers are able to identify specific mechanism to improve the risk management of these banks as well through this study.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Faraz Ali ◽  
Muhammad Naeem

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to unfold the relationship between service quality and level of performance of conventional and Islamic banks. Also, it intends to uncover what are the features of service quality which can raise the level of performance either in conventional banks or Islamic banks. There is rare literature available that focused on comparative study between above stated banking systems based on emerging parameters of SERVQUAL model. Design/methodology/approach To meet the objectives of this investigation, research data has been from 450 customers who have had accounts and dealings with conventional and Islamic banks in the previous five years. The customers are selected based on cluster sampling from regional offices of conventional and Islamic banks. Findings The collected data have been analyzed by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) technique followed by common method variance (CMV), multiple regression test and independent sample t-test used to examine the parameters of service quality in the context of banks performance. The purpose of CFA is to find the model validity, while multiple regression and t-test is performed in order to examine the influence of service quality parameters on banks performance. Originality/value The study used compliance as a one of the emerging and unique dimension of service quality. This dimension is rarely investigated in the context of measuring the level of bank performance of conventional and Islamic banking systems. Findings reveal responsiveness and assurance is the strongest predictor of conventional banking performance. Compliance and reliability has significant and positive impact on the level of performance of Islamic banks. Moreover, the study has practical implications for the top management and stakeholders of conventional and Islamic banks to increase the level of performance by using SERVQUAL model.


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