BANK SPECIFIC AND MACROECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING ISLAMIC BANKS DEPOSITS

Sazana Ab Rahman,Noraziah Che Arshad,Nor Hayati Ahmad

doi:10.32890/ijib2021.6.2.4

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Deposits are like the bloodline for banks as they determine banks' lending capacity and a country's economic savings. However, the existence of a dual banking system poses a challenge to Malaysian Islamic banks competing for deposits. Despite this problem, few investigations were done to comprehensively identify the factors that could help banks attract deposits, particularly for Islamic banks. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap on deposits of 16 Islamic banks in Malaysia. Secondary data from the bank's annual reports and the Department of Statistics of Malaysia from 2015 to 2019 were analyzed, comprising Islamic Bank Deposits and seven predictors in an empirical model using STATA. The result shows a strong model fit with 92% R squared value that Return on Assets, bank concentration, and Business Enterprise Depositor affect Islamic Bank Deposits positively and significantly while Capital Adequacy Ratio showed negative and significant influence on the deposits. These factors are strongly effective to deposits, significant at 1% level. In contrast, Financing Deposit Ratio and Gross Domestic Product do not significantly influence Islamic deposits. Contrary to economic theory, this study found that an increase in inflation encourages customers to increase their saving deposits in Malaysian Islamic banks. The findings from this study are unique to Malaysian Islamic banks. They indicate important policy implications for Islamic banks practitioners, namely, to increase their focus on business enterprise customers, improve bank's market share and profitability in order to increase deposits while taking advantage of high inflationary period to attract more depositors.

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Due to the tremendous rise of Islamic banking and finance during the last two decades, there has been an increase in interest of Islamic banking research
Which type of depositors has a significant influence on Islamic bank deposits? This study found that Business Enterprises play a significant role in increasing Islamic Banks Deposits (IBD) as evidenced by the Business Enterprise Deposit (BED) coefficient estimate = 0.4899; significant at 1% level
This study aimed to gather empirical information concerning the factors that have a significant impact on Islamic bank deposits in Malaysia

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Due to the tremendous rise of Islamic banking and finance during the last two decades, there has been an increase in interest of Islamic banking research. For Malaysia, the government aims the Islamic banking assets to account for 40% of the whole banking industry by 2020, in line with the aspiration to make Malaysia the center in Islamic finance and banking globally. This target is yet to be achieved as the proportion has only reached 28.2% as of 2018, equivalent to 771,807.61 million but dipped down to 29.5% in 2019 (Bank Negara Malaysia [BNM], 2020). As of the end of 2020, Islamic banking performed better with 30% growth in assets. The quest for Malaysian Islamic banks continues to reach the growth target by increasing their assets

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