Determinants of Islamic Banking in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-188
Author(s):  
Sheereen Fauzel
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 depicted that conventional banking has many weaknesses. Hence, there has been much debate on the strength of Islamic banking to confront such crises. There are various advantages of using Shari'ah-compliant financial products pointed out by researches. Moreover, people who abide by their religious belief are mainly those who demand such financial services. But research relating to the determinants of Islamic banking is scant. This chapter examines the determinants of Islamic Banking in Africa over the period 2005-2018. The result shows that if the share of the Muslim population is high compared to other religions, Islamic banking is better diffused. Furthermore, important determinants of Islamic banking obtained from the results are the growth rate of the country and the extent to which the financial system is developed. Interestingly, it is observed that interest rate affects the diffusion of Islamic banking as it represents an opportunity cost.

Twin Peaks Regulation After the Global Financial Crisis: A Reform Model for China?

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Han
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Peak Model ◽  
Twin Peak

AbstractThe global financial crisis (GFC) has been defined as the worst financial crisis after the Great Depression of the 1930s. Reforms underway, as well as debates in discussion, revolve around both regulatory philosophy and approaches towards better supervisory outcomes. One of the most radical institutional reforms took place in the United Kingdom (UK), where the Twin-Peak model replaced the previous fully integrated regulator – the Financial Services Authority (FSA) under the Financial Services Act 2012. This paper argues that China should also introduce twin peaks regulation, but it is rather based on the resources of risk in its financial sector than the direct GFC challenge. In theory, the core arguments focus on the structure of agencies responsible for prudential regulation and the role played by the central bank as well. The Twin-Peak model has been further examined in terms of regulatory objectives and instruments. By method, this paper is a country-specific comparative study; Australia, the Netherlands and the UK are selected to represent different Twin-Peak models. This paper contributes to the relevant literature in two main aspects. First, it has displayed the principal pattern of the Twin-Peak model after detailing the case studies, including the relationship involving in two regulators, central bank and finance minister in particular. Based on this, second, it becomes possible to design a very specific model to reform China’s current sector-based financial monitoring regime. As far as the author knows, until end-2015, this is the first paper which has proposed such a particular model to China. It is argued that the appropriate institutional structure of market regulation should fit well in with a country’s financial market. Accordingly, the Twin-Peak model will be able to balance the regulatory tasks for the over-concentrated risk in China’s large banking sector but the underdeveloped securities market. Even though, regulatory independence will continue to be challenged.

scholarly journals Comparison of the Approach of the Czech National Bank and the European Central Bank to the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-46
Author(s):  
Andrea Cecrdlova
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
European Central ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The latest global crisis, which fully erupted in 2008, can have a significant impact on central banks credibility in the long run. During the last crisis, monetary authorities encountered zero interest rate levels and, as a result, started to use non-standard monetary policy instruments. The Czech National Bank decided to use a less standard instrument in November 2013, when it started to intervene on the foreign exchange market in order to keep the Czech currency at level 27 CZK / EUR. However, the European Central Bank also adopted a non-standard instrument, when chose a path of quantitative easing in 2015 in order to support the euro area economy by purchasing financial assets. The question remains whether the approach of Czech National Bank or the approach of European Central Bank in the crisis and post-crisis period was a more appropriate alternative. With the passage of time from the global financial crisis, it is already possible to compare the approaches of these two central banks and at least partially assess what approach was more appropriate under the given conditions. When comparing the central banks approaches to the crisis, the Czech National Bank was better, both in terms of the rate of interest rate cuts and the resulting inflation with regard to the choice of a non-standard monetary policy instrument. The recent financial crisis has revealed the application of moral hazard in practice, both on behalf of the European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank, which may have a significant impact on their credibility and independence in the coming years.

scholarly journals The social orientations and ideologies of UK finance employees at the onset of the Global Financial Crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Cebulla
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Behavioural Factors ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Fairness

Debates about the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 have pointed at institutional and individual-behavioural factors as its causes. Using the British Household Panel Survey, this article highlights marked differences in perceptions of societal and economic fairness among financial services employees in investment or management positions in the United Kingdom and the general working population at the brink of the Global Financial Crisis. Panel data analysis suggests that financial services and occupations did not necessarily attract employees with pro-market attitudes, but that employment in these institutions and occupations made it more likely that employees came to display these perceptions, contributing to the construction of a distinct attitudinal profile of finance employees.

scholarly journals Global Financial Crisis of Islamic and Conventional Banking in Middle East – A Case Study in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Ayman Abdal-Majeed Ahmad Al-Smadi ◽  
Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir ◽  
Muzamri Bin Mukthar
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The financial tools all over the world become extremely decisive in these days. The main goal of this paper is to measure then to discuss the impact of performance of conventional and Islamic banking in Turkey during the financial crisis. some variables such as profitability, liquidity, operational efficiency and business growth are used as a measuring factor to determine the performance for both financial models. The period of study is taken during the financial crisis in 1997 and during the global financial crisis in 2007. The comparison in this study is made between the performances of Islamic banking  and conventional banking in Turkey.Some secondary data had examines in this study which was drown from the annual report from one of Turkey bank since 2002 until 2013. SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) “18.0” has been used to compare between Islamic finance model and other model. The findings of this paper shows that Islamic financial system is performing superior than conventional financial system for the period of this study. Hence, it can be concluded that the system of Islamic banking is able to sustain and compete with the conventional banking system especially during any financial crisis.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ISLAMIC BANKING AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ISLAMIC COMMERCIAL BANKS AND ISLAMIC BUSINESS UNIT BANKS IN INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Laili Rahmi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Risk Ratio ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

<p>The global financial crisis has affected some industries or non-industries around the world. It has also impacted to Islamic banking in Indonesia, especially after 2007-2008. It has been recorded the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia shows a speedy recovery from the impact of the global financial crisis. Thus, this study aims to evaluate and examine the differences of Islamic banking’s financial performance after the global financial crisis in Indonesia. The financial performances in this study are profitability ratio (Return on Asset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE)), liquidity ratio (Financing to Deposit Ratio (FDR) and Current Asset Ratio (CAR)) and solvency risk ratio (Equity Multiplier (EM) and Debt to Equity Ratio (DER)). The samples in this study are the six Islamic banks from Islamic Commercial Banks (Bank Usaha Sharia (BUS)) and Islamic Business Unit Banks (Unit Usaha Sharia (UUS)) in Indonesia. Based on the results shows by the descriptive statistic, UUS is more effective in using their assets to generate income compared to BUS, but BUS is greater to manage their financing and more liquid than UUS whose has higher risk than BUS during 2009-2013. Independent sample t-test shows that there is significant difference in terms of profitability, liquidity and solvency risk ratio between BUS and UUS Indonesia during 2009-2013</p>

Financial Crisis and Interest Rate Pass-Through in Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milind Sathye
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Oecd Country ◽  
Lending Rate ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The study contributes to the extant literature on interest rate pass-through in two ways. First, we examine the impact of the global financial crisis on the historical relationship between policy rate and the home lending rate. Second, we provide evidence from a hitherto unexplored OECD country (Australia) using data from recent years and provide new insights for advancing the pass-through literature. We found complete or near-complete pass-through in the money market rates and a statistically significant temporary change in the relationship between the policy rate and home lending rate since the onset of the financial crisis.

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