scholarly journals Determinants of Bank Profitability in Ghana: New Evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Anarfi ◽  
Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah ◽  
Eunice Boateng

<p>This study examines the determinants of profitability in the Ghanaian Banking Industry for an eight (8) year period of 2007 to 2014. Using a sample from 9 local banks and 12 foreign banks in Ghana, the study combines bank-specific determinants and macroeconomic variables to access bank profitability with Return on Assets (ROA) as the dependent variable. The Hausman specification test was performed on a panel regression to determine the appropriate model for this study. The estimation results shows that, bank SIZE and DEPOSITS are not significant and does not impact profitability. However, LOANS, CAPITAL and OVERHEADS were found to be significant and impacts on profitability. The study concludes that banks in Ghana should be technological in their operations to reduce staff cost since the OVERHEAD was highly significant and impacts negatively on ROA.</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Puji Sucia Sukmaningrum ◽  
Kashan Pirzada ◽  
Sylva Alif Rusmita ◽  
Fatin Fadhilah Hasib ◽  
Tika Widiastuti ◽  
...  

Objective – Islamic Banks have a distinct advantage that is not only conduct a commercial operation, but to also conduct social operations. Therefore, Islamic Banks plays an important role in developing the Indonesian economy. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external factors that affect the profitability of Islamic Banks in Indonesia. Methodology/Technique – The methodology of this research is multiple regression. The object of this research is the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia. Internal factors include size, liquidity, asset quality, management, and efficiency ratio. External factors include interest rate and inflation. Return on Assets is used to measure profitability. The monthly data is collected from the financial reports of Islamic Banks between 2011 to 2016. Findings – The findings show that size, liquidity, assets quality, management ratio, interest rate and inflation lead to a greater Return on Assets (profitability) in Islamic Banks in Indonesia. Efficiency however does not have a significant effect on profitability of Islamic Banks in Indonesia. Novelty – Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that the Islamic banking industry can use those variables to improve the profitability of Islamic banks in the future. In addition, there are two variables that affect the profitability of Islamic banking industry. For the Islamic banking industry should anticipate the movement of inflation and interest to improve the profitability of Islamic banks. Type of Paper: Empirical paper. Keywords: Islamic Banks; Profitability; Internal Factors; External Factors; Indonesia. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Sukmaningrum, P.S; Pirzada, K; Rusmita, S.A; Hasib, F.F; Widiastuti, T; Hendratmi, A. 2020. Determinants of Islamic Bank Profitability: Evidence from Indonesia, J. Fin. Bank. Review, 5 (1): pp. 01 – 13 https://doi.org/10.35609/jfbr.2020.5.1(1) JEL Classification: G21, G24.


Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
Yaser A. AlKulaib ◽  
Musaed S. AlAli

This study aims to examine whether or not Kuwaiti banks are overstaffed based on the data of ten Kuwaiti banks listed at Kuwait stock exchange (KSE) over the period 2010-2018. Using panel regression analysis, the results show that six banks were overstaffed while the remaining four banks were understaffed. Kuwait Finance House (KFH) was the most overstaffed bank in Kuwait while Commercial bank was the most understaffed bank. Gulf bank was the closest to the estimated number of staff followed by AlAhli bank. The results also revealed that there was a statistically significant inverse relationship between staffing level and return on assets (ROA) while, on the other hand, there was a statistically significant direct relationship between total assets and the number of branches with staffing level.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sahyouni ◽  
Man Wang

This paper estimates the amount of liquidity created by Syrian banks between 2004 and 2016, and further investigates the effect of liquidity creation on bank performance, controlling for a set of bank-level, industry-level, and macroeconomic variables. The findings show bank liquidity creation improved during the pre-war period and showed positive figures, but started to decline sharply during wartime. The results also show a negative relationship between liquidity creation and bank profitability (return on assets) during wartime; however, this relationship was insignificant before the war. Finally, this study conducted robustness checks to confirm its findings.


Author(s):  
Mohamed Galal Abobakr

This paper aims to explain the elements that affect banks' profitability in the Egyptian banking sector during the period from 2006 to 2015. The researcher uses unbalanced panel annual data for 26 working banks in the Egyptian market. Generalized methods of moments (GMM) estimators are applied to define the most affected factors. Return on assets (ROE) and the return on equity (ROA) have been used as measurements of bank profitability. The findings of the study reveal that high profitability are associated with large bank size, large capital ratio and large operating income, while lower profitability is associated with higher non-interest income. As macroeconomic variables do affect profitability significantly, the researcher suggests that macroeconomic strategies that encourage low inflation and sustain growth rate, enhances loans expansion, boost banks' profitability.


Author(s):  
Karigoleshwar .

In financial sector the banking industry is the largest player, has also been undergoing a major change. Today the banking industry is stronger and capable of withstanding the pressures of competition. Today, we are having a fairly well developed banking system with different classes of banks – public sector banks, foreign banks, private sector banks – both old and new generation, regional rural banks and co-operative banks with the Reserve Bank of India as the fountain Head of the system. In the banking field, there has been an unprecedented growth and diversification of banking industry has been so stupendous that it has no parallel in the annals of banking anywhere in the world. The banking industry has experienced a series of significant transformations in the last few decades. Among the most important of them is the change in the type of organizations that dominate the landscape. Since the eighties, banks have increased the scope and scale of their activities and several banks have become very large institutions with a presence in multiple regions of the country.' The paper examines the new trends in commercial banking. The present era the cashless transactions, E-cheques, mobile wallets. The paper attempts to present the emerging trends and its challenges that recently emerged in the banking sector with special emphasis on digitization. It will be useful to the academicians, banking and insurance personnel, students and researchers. Common readers also know the latest innovations in banking sector


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Ghazy Aziz

AbstractThis study empirically investigates the impact of bank profitability, as a complementary measure of financial development, on growth in the Arab countries between 1985 and 2016. Using a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation to test the impact of the bank profitability on growth, this study utilises two variables in the econometric model which are return on assets and return on equity. This study reveals that both variables of bank profitability are positive and significant. This confirms that the bank profitability, beside other financial development variables, has positive impact on the growth. This study points out some important implications based on this result.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haris ◽  
Yao ◽  
Tariq ◽  
Javaid ◽  
Ain

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance characteristics and political connections of directors on the profitability of banks in Pakistan. The study uses the data of 26 domestic banks over the latest and large period of 2007–2016. Our findings firstly affirm that bank profitability is negatively affected by the presence of politically connected directors on the board, reporting significantly lower return on assets, return on equity, net interest margin, and profit margin. Secondly, our findings also affirm the negative political influence on the sustainability of the banking industry, reporting significantly lower return on assets, return on equity, net interest margin, and profit margin during the government transition of banks having politically connected directors sitting on their board. Our findings further report an inverted U-shaped relationship between board size and bank profitability, suggesting that a board size beyond 8–9 members decreases the profitability. The study further finds a positive impact of board composition, board independence, and director compensation on bank profitability, while also finding a negative impact of frequent board meetings, presence of foreign directors, and audit committee independence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Sandi Fitra Yusuf ◽  
Mike Triani

This study explains the extent of the influence of macroeconomic variables on the profitability of BUKU 4 banks in Indonesia. The macroeconomic variables consist of economic growth (X1), inflation (X2), Bank Indonesia Interest Rate (BI Rate) (X3, and Profitability is measured by the ROA (Return) ratio. On Asset). This study combines cross section data of 7 banks with time series from 2010-2019, with the Panel Regression method with the Random Effect model selection test. The results show that: (1) Economic growth has a positive and significant effect on bank profitability. conventional BUKU 4 in Indonesia, (2) Inflation has a positive and insignificant effect on the profitability of conventional BUKU 4 banks in Indonesia, (3) the Bank Indonesia Interest Rate (BI Rate) has a positive and insignificant effect on the profitability of conventional BUKU 4 banks in Indonesia.


Author(s):  
Dudi Rudianto

The Risk-Based Bank Rating approach (RBBR) is used to determine the health of banks in Indonesia, both for national banks, joint venture banks and foreign banks. This approach uses five (5) proxies, i.e. Non Performing Loan (NPL), Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR), Return on Assets (ROA), Net Interesr Margin (NIM), and the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR). The overall result of the 5 (five) variables studied show that national banks are healthier than the other two types of banks, namely venture banks and foreign banks, because the national bank has a value beyond the provisions of Bank Indonesia. The partial variable LDR consistently varies significantly between national banks, joint venture banks and foreign banks. The LDR of joint venture banks and foreign banks is higher than the national bank. These conditions indicate that the bargaining position of joint venture banks and foreign banks in serving the needs of public borrowing is much higher than the national bank, which results in increasing the ability of both types of banks in generating profit. Simultaneously throughout the study variables was significantly different among the national banks, joint venture banks and foreign banks..  


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