Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad

First of most, banking sector is the backbone for a country’s economy as banks performance can generate spill over impacts on different sectors (UNDP, 2009). The commercial banking industry of Malaysia is developing rapidly and has been acted as one of the cr...

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Main Author: Yob Ahmad, Nurul Amirah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business Management 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23958/2/PPb_NURUL%20AMIRAH%20YOB%20AHMAD%20J%20BM17_5.pdf
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description First of most, banking sector is the backbone for a country’s economy as banks performance can generate spill over impacts on different sectors (UNDP, 2009). The commercial banking industry of Malaysia is developing rapidly and has been acted as one of the critical diving forces of economy growth of the country. According to Abdul Jamal, Abdul Karim & Hamidi (2012), until 2011, commercial banks account the bulk of RM1, 7138.3 trillion assets and they represent the largest segment of all financial institutions in Malaysia. Therefore, this research is only focused on commercial banks since they are the largest fund provider in a country. The main purpose this research is to find out the profitability determinants of commercial banks in Malaysia. ROA was chosen as dependent variables to estimate the commercial bank’s profit, and 3 independent variables which are capital adequacy, credit risk and bank size. The duration for this study is from 2005-2015and is collected based on annual basis. This paper also examines the impact of bank specifics on profitability of commercial banks in Malaysia. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method as used to analyze the data collected from 7 commercial banks in order to understand the determinants Commercial banking profitability in Malaysia In the findings the bank specific variables show that the capital adequacy and bank size have positively influenced the bank’s profitability
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spelling uitm.eprints-39582019-05-31T08:36:35Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23958/ Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad Yob Ahmad, Nurul Amirah Banking Profits. Corporate profits First of most, banking sector is the backbone for a country’s economy as banks performance can generate spill over impacts on different sectors (UNDP, 2009). The commercial banking industry of Malaysia is developing rapidly and has been acted as one of the critical diving forces of economy growth of the country. According to Abdul Jamal, Abdul Karim & Hamidi (2012), until 2011, commercial banks account the bulk of RM1, 7138.3 trillion assets and they represent the largest segment of all financial institutions in Malaysia. Therefore, this research is only focused on commercial banks since they are the largest fund provider in a country. The main purpose this research is to find out the profitability determinants of commercial banks in Malaysia. ROA was chosen as dependent variables to estimate the commercial bank’s profit, and 3 independent variables which are capital adequacy, credit risk and bank size. The duration for this study is from 2005-2015and is collected based on annual basis. This paper also examines the impact of bank specifics on profitability of commercial banks in Malaysia. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method as used to analyze the data collected from 7 commercial banks in order to understand the determinants Commercial banking profitability in Malaysia In the findings the bank specific variables show that the capital adequacy and bank size have positively influenced the bank’s profitability Faculty of Business Management 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23958/2/PPb_NURUL%20AMIRAH%20YOB%20AHMAD%20J%20BM17_5.pdf Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad. (2017) [Student Project] (Submitted)
spellingShingle Banking
Profits. Corporate profits
Yob Ahmad, Nurul Amirah
Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title_full Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title_fullStr Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title_short Determinants of local commercial bank’s profitability: evidence from Malaysia / Nurul Amirah Yob Ahmad
title_sort determinants of local commercial bank s profitability evidence from malaysia nurul amirah yob ahmad
topic Banking
Profits. Corporate profits
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23958/2/PPb_NURUL%20AMIRAH%20YOB%20AHMAD%20J%20BM17_5.pdf
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