Syed Musa Syed Jaafar Alhabshi

Effects of Intellectual Capital on Microfinance Institutions’ Performance

The survival and competitive success of microfinance institutions (MFIs) depends on their intellectual capital. The strategic management of intellectual capital provides greater contribution to the company success as compared to the strategic allocation of physical and financial resources. Ultimately, the top management is uncertain on the valuable resources processed by the firm that will cause the success of new strategies. This is due to the fact that they do not understand the nature and value of intellectual capital, how to create, extract and optimize value and wealth through intellectual capital. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of intellectual capital on the performance of MFIs. This study was conducted in the form of a survey and the respondents comprised MFIs managers who were considered to have knowledge on the internal management and involved in the development of the institutions. Data collected were tested using multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that intellectual capital as a whole has a significant effect on the performance of MFIs. However, the relationship between human capital (knowledge) and structural capital on MFIs performance is insignificant.

Measuring Bank Stability: A Comparative Analysis Between Islamic and Conventional Banks in Malaysia

The present study provides new empirical evidence of bank stability measures for 50 banks in Malaysia, for a period from 1999 to 2015. There are two methods of measuring bank stability that is using Z-score and CAMELS variables. After calculating, these variables are ranked, with the highest average is ranked as one, and the lowest average is ranked last, or fifty. This is following the method by (Roman and Procedia Economics and Finance, 6(13), 703–712 Roman and Şargu 2013) and (Procedia—Social and Behavioral Sciences, 24, 1530–1545 Dincer et al. 2011) and extending it by introducing the average of total ranking for all variables. The empirical findings suggest that both local Islamic and conventional banks are ranked favourable in overall average bank stability score, sensitivity to market risk, asset quality, earning and profitability, but local conventional banks are recorded favourable ranking in liquidity. Comparing the two types of local banks, conventional banks are ranked better in liquidity, sensitivity to market risk and earning and profitability.

Bank stability measures for dual banking system

Bank stability is of paramount importance in the growth of the economy, sustainability and going concern of the financial sector. Thus, it places high reliance on the measures to indicate the stability of the financial institution. There are many indicators used as measures for bank stability. However, the recent Global Financial Crisis showed that despite reports of ‘healthy’ financial institution prior to crisis, these institutions suffered many problems including liquidity, during the crisis. Thus, this led to confusion on reliance of important components of a healthy financial institutions as indicators, leading to loss of confidence on the overall stability of the financial system. Therefore, there is an urgent need for review of the current measures of bank stability that look at the indicators used as measures of banking stability across different jurisdictions. This study aims to develop bank stability index as a measure of bank stability in countries with dual banking system. This methodology rely on qualitative review of literatures and report produced by central banks of different jurisdictions.