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A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas

In recent times, the financial sectors become an important tool to the economics growth and stability due to the few reasons such as technology improvement and financial services innovation that will give an implication on the cost and revenues and on the profitability of banks. Thus, the purpose of...

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Main Author: Abbas, Syafiqah Alimah
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Language:English
Published: 2017
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General works. Financial institutions
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spelling my.uitm.ir.913052024-03-14T06:54:52Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/91305/ A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas Abbas, Syafiqah Alimah General works. Financial institutions In recent times, the financial sectors become an important tool to the economics growth and stability due to the few reasons such as technology improvement and financial services innovation that will give an implication on the cost and revenues and on the profitability of banks. Thus, the purpose of this research is to determine the bank specific factors that influence the profitability of foreign and local bank in Malaysia. The data for this study is a secondary data that collected from several sources such as BANKSCOPE. The duration of this study are from 2009 until 2015. This research is only focusing on (10) commercial banks in Malaysia that consists of five (5) foreign banks and five (5) Domestic banks. In this study, researcher applying a Panel Data analysis and various methods in order to test the significant of the variables towards the profitability of both groups of banks. The finding of this study shows that Liquidity Ratio have a significance impact with a positive relationship to the domestic banks profitability. This may be due to the fact that the domestic banks in Malaysia have more opportunities to invest in various short term liquid asset. In contrast with the foreign banks profitability that have a significance impact with negative relationship towards Liquidity Ratio, Asset Quality and Bank Size. This may possibly be due to the fact that the foreign banks in Malaysia have high liquid asset to decrease the liquidity risk of bank. Moreover, Asset Quality are expected to give a positive relationship, but according to the coefficient Asset Quality bad loans are expected to reduce the profitability of foreign banks in Malaysia. Lastly, Bank Size give negative impact towards profitability of foreign banks in Malaysia that possibly due to the larger diseconomies scale and cause a difficulty for management to conduct. 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/91305/1/91305.pdf A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas. (2017) [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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Abbas, Syafiqah Alimah
A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
description In recent times, the financial sectors become an important tool to the economics growth and stability due to the few reasons such as technology improvement and financial services innovation that will give an implication on the cost and revenues and on the profitability of banks. Thus, the purpose of this research is to determine the bank specific factors that influence the profitability of foreign and local bank in Malaysia. The data for this study is a secondary data that collected from several sources such as BANKSCOPE. The duration of this study are from 2009 until 2015. This research is only focusing on (10) commercial banks in Malaysia that consists of five (5) foreign banks and five (5) Domestic banks. In this study, researcher applying a Panel Data analysis and various methods in order to test the significant of the variables towards the profitability of both groups of banks. The finding of this study shows that Liquidity Ratio have a significance impact with a positive relationship to the domestic banks profitability. This may be due to the fact that the domestic banks in Malaysia have more opportunities to invest in various short term liquid asset. In contrast with the foreign banks profitability that have a significance impact with negative relationship towards Liquidity Ratio, Asset Quality and Bank Size. This may possibly be due to the fact that the foreign banks in Malaysia have high liquid asset to decrease the liquidity risk of bank. Moreover, Asset Quality are expected to give a positive relationship, but according to the coefficient Asset Quality bad loans are expected to reduce the profitability of foreign banks in Malaysia. Lastly, Bank Size give negative impact towards profitability of foreign banks in Malaysia that possibly due to the larger diseconomies scale and cause a difficulty for management to conduct.
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title A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
title_short A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
title_full A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
title_fullStr A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
title_full_unstemmed A study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in Malaysia / Syafiqah Alimah Abbas
title_sort study on the impact of bank-specific factor on bank's profitability: an investigation between foreign and local banks in malaysia / syafiqah alimah abbas
publishDate 2017
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