Bank Disclosure Research Articles

Risk disclosure and financial performance of Islamic banks in Jordan: the moderating role of financial technology

<p>Risk disclosure (RD) is important to inform investors. However, few studies examined this variable in developing countries and in Islamic bank context. This research investigates how RD affect financial performance (FP) of Islamic banks in Jordan. It also examines the moderating role of financial technology (FinTech). We use a quantitative method to examine how mandatory risk disclosure (MRD) and voluntary risk disclosure (VRD) impact return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) in Islamic banks operating in Jordan. Our results show that both MRD and VRD have a significant effect on FP of Islamic banks. Moreover, FinTech acts as a moderator in the connection between risk disclosure (MRD and VRD) and FP performance. The effect was compared before and after coronaviruses disease 2019 (COVID-19) and it shows that the COVID-19 has increased the effect of MRD and VRD on FP of Islamic banks. More focus on VRD and MRD will enhance the FP of Islamic banks in Jordan.</p>

Green banking disclosure and firm value: a research study at the commercial bank of Vietnam

ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of green banking disclosure on the firm value of Vietnamese-listed commercial banks and examines the moderating role of non-performing loans (NPLs) from 2010 to 2023. Using panel data regression and content analysis, we employ the Circular 96/2020/TT-BTC disclosure index to measure green banking disclosure and Tobin’s Q to assess firm value. Our findings reveal that green banking disclosure generally reduces firm value. However, when accounting for NPLs, this negative relationship reverses, indicating a moderating effect. This research uniquely incorporates banks’ intrinsic value alongside Tobin’s Q to test the robustness of our results.

Green Banking Disclosure in Indonesia: Do Financial Performance and Board Characteristics Matter?

Green Banking Disclosure in Indonesia: Do Financial Performance and Board Characteristics Matter?

Development of an Index for Measuring Islamic Bank CSR Disclosures in Indonesia

Measuring the disclosure of social activities carried out by Islamic banks is very important. However, the results of measuring the disclosure of social activities of Islamic banks in Indonesia still need to be higher when measured by the current CSR disclosure measurement index. The CSR disclosure measurement index often used in related research comes from research results in various countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. This is one of the considerations that causes the level of CSR disclosure of Islamic banks in Indonesia to be relatively low. Studies on developing an index for measuring CSR disclosure of Islamic banks in Indonesia are based on Sharia enterprise theory (SET). Based on the results of literacy studies of related research conducted in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia, several assessment dimension criteria need to be developed, including those related to the obligation of Islamic banks to report their social activities from the start of their establishment, environmental awareness education for employees, use of environmentally friendly materials. to support operational activities and collaboration with social communities in order to achieve acceleration and equal distribution of community welfare.

Assessing climate-related disclosures of European banks through text mining

Assessing climate-related disclosures of European banks through text mining

Investigating the Impact of Green Banking Disclosure, Profitability, Company Size, and Non-Performing Loans on Company Value

Investigating the Impact of Green Banking Disclosure, Profitability, Company Size, and Non-Performing Loans on Company Value

Green banking disclosure from the perspective of corporate governance, financial slack and human resource slack in Indonesia

Green banking is a long-term business strategy with the main target of achieving sustainable benefits and preserving the environment. Determining the ability of corporate governance to influence green banking disclosure in banking companies in Indonesia was the aim of the study. Annual reports and sustainability reports of banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange are used as secondary data. 84 data were used after selection using the purposive sampling method. The technique used to analyze the research data is SmartPLS. The findings show that good corporate governance can improve green banking disclosure. Financial slack and human resource slack, as moderating variables, can moderate the influence of corporate governance on green banking disclosure. The results also indicate that green banking disclosure has the potential to encourage positive changes in sustainable banking practices and information transparency. In the end, good corporate governance can stimulate bank management to care more about environmental issues. Financial and human resource slack in banking strengthens the relationship between the two and increases a company’s role in maintaining environmental and social sustainability.

Content Analysis of Green Banking Reports as an Effort to Fulfill Sustainability

Research Aims: This research aims to explore green banking disclosure among banks listed on IDX-IC shares in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach: The method used involves conducting content analysis using indicators from research by Bose et al. (2018) and Handajani (2019). The total number of indicators is 21 items, covering the reporting period of 2019-2022. Research Findings: The research results help explain the development of the quality of disclosure in bank sustainability reports (green banking) in Indonesia, as well as the effectiveness of mandatory sustainability reports in the banking sector. Previously, some people believed that banks' contribution to environmental damage was relatively low. However, research results show that banks are beginning to concentrate on sustainability programs. In 2019, the percentage of disclosure was 50.71%; in 2020, it was 56.19%; in 2021, it was 57.76%; and in 2022, it was 62.74%. Although still relatively low, there has been a notable improvement in the quality of sustainability report information from 2021 to 2022. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This research contributes to the literature related to bank disclosures in their activities supporting the SDGs and discusses the extent to which banks prioritize environmentally friendly banking activities. Keywords: sustainable bank, green banking, content analysis

Are Banking Financial Performances and Green Banking Disclosure Associated with Bank Profitability?

This study examines how banking financial performance and green banking disclosure influence profitability. Financial performance in this research consists of capital adequacy ratio, non-performing loans, efficiency ratio, and loan-to-savings ratio. The research sample consisted of 30 samples selected using a purposive sampling method from 6 banking sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2018-2022, which consistently reported their green banking practices and did not experience losses during the research period. The analytical method in this research is panel data regression analysis. The research results show that the capital adequacy ratio and efficiency ratio have a negative effect on profitability. On the other hand, non-performing loans and the loan-to-deposit ratio positively affect company profits. Furthermore, green banking disclosure has a negative and significant effect on profitability. Implementing Green Banking can cause a decrease in profitability due to additional costs associated with its implementation. This research provides additional literature related to the implementation of green banking in Indonesia.

Relationship of Environmental Disclosure of Renewable Energy, Carbon Emissions, Waste Management, Water Consumption, and Banks’ Financial Performance

In recent years, sustainable banking principles have been employed in the daily operations of deposit money banks in Nigeria. This study examines the relationship between environmental sustainability and the financial performance of 14 deposit money banks listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group. It focuses on the impact of environmental disclosure of renewable energy, carbon emissions, waste management, and water consumption (i.e. proxies for environment sustainability) on the bank’s return on assets (ROA i.e. proxy for financial performance). The research spans an 8-year period from 2013 to 2021, using panel data and multiple regression analysis to analyze the data. The data is collected from the annual reports of the deposit money banks listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group. The research design is ex-post facto, utilizing secondary data collection methods. The findings suggest that there is a positive but insignificant association between environmental sustainability indicators (renewable energy, carbon emissions, waste management, and water consumption) and financial performance (ROA). In conclusion, the study finds no significant relationship between and financial performance (ROA).

Exploring Contributing Factors to Environmental Disclosures in Islamic Commercial Banks of Indonesia

This study aims to provide an overview and analysis of the influence of policy and corporate governance, including Sharia supervisory board, firm size, firm age, and leverage on green banking disclosure in Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia from 2017 to 2021. This study uses a quantitative approach with panel data regression analysis to examine the causal relationship between the independent variables (policy, board size, board of commissioners, Sharia Supervisory Board, firm size, firm age, and leverage) and green banking disclosures. Islamic commercial banks registered with FSA and IDX are the study population. The sampling method in this study was purposive sampling, with a total sample of six Islamic commercial banks for five years of research. The results of this study show that the company's age, the size of the company, the size of the board of directors, and the board of commissioners have a significant effect on the disclosure of green banking. Meanwhile, Sharia board and leverage do not significantly affect green banking disclosure. This study implies that applying green banking to overcome environmental problems can only be realized by regulation alone, considering the importance of other factors from the bank's side.

Exploring the association of green banking disclosure and corporate sustainable growth: the moderating role of firm size and firm age

Exploring the association of green banking disclosure and corporate sustainable growth: the moderating role of firm size and firm age

The Influence Of Good Corporate Governance On Product And Service Disclosure Of Islamic Banks With Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure As A Moderating Variable

This research aims to examine the effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure as a moderating variable for Corporate Governance (GCG) using indicators of institutional ownership, size of the board of directors and sharia supervisory board on product and service disclosure as proxied by the ISR Index. The sample used in this research is Sharia Banks in Indonesia for the period 2018-2022. The type of research carried out in this study is quantitative research, where the sampling method uses a purposive sampling method. By referring to the established criteria, 10 Islamic banks were selected as research samples, and 50 observation data were obtained. The analysis method used is inner model and hypothesis testing using the WarpPLS 8.0 program. The research results show that Institutional Ownership has a positive and significant effect on Product and Service Disclosure, the size of the board of directors and sharia supervisory board has a negative and significant effect on Product and Service Disclosure. Meanwhile, CSR disclosure as a moderating variable is able to moderate the relationship between these three variables on Product and Service Disclosure.
 
 Keywords : Good Corporate Governance, Product and Service Disclosure, Revealing Corporate Social Responsibility

Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Decoupled Relationship Between CSR Bank Disclosures and SME Financing: A Case Study of Alpha Banks in Lebanon

Evaluation of the Implementation of the Green Banking Concept at Bank XYZ

Indonesia is committed to Undang-Undang Nomor 16 Tahun 2016 concerning the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. To support this commitment, the role of banking, including Bank XYZ, is crucial in financing clean energy projects and other business sectors. Although Bank XYZ has shown growth in green financing since 2016, there are notes regarding financing in the coal sector between October 2018 and October 2020, as well as a decline in the ranking in the 2022 Bank Ranking Report. Therefore, an evaluation of the concept of green banking at Bank XYZ is needed to maintain its growth and ensure the effectiveness of its implementation from 2017 to 2022. This research employs a qualitative approach to analyze the implementation of green banking at Bank XYZ. The evaluation is conducted through interviews with the Risk Management Division and an analysis of sustainability reports using the Green Banking Disclosure Index (GBDI). Bank XYZ has proven to implement the concept of green banking transparently, but there are shortcomings such as a lack of transparency in sustainability budgeting, attention to debtors, internal controls, sustainability campaigns, and the use of renewable technology. This research is expected to enhance the quality of green banking implementation at Bank XYZ, support environmental preservation, and address existing weaknesses.

Disclosures of banks’ sustainability reports, climate change and central banks: An empirical analysis with unstructured data

Climate change will impact the economy in the long term but also in the medium run potentially affecting financial stability and the whole economic system (Nyambuu & Semmler, 2023). Some studies suggested that climate change may hit financial actors even if there are few studies related to the role of banks’ sustainability disclosure and central banks’ mandates. This paper examines the sustainability reports disclosures of the banks listed on the FTSE Italia All-Share Italian Stock Exchange for the year 2021–2020. It applies five kinds of multivariate techniques on unstructured data using Iramuteq (www.iramuteq.org) and SAS Viya (www.sas.com). The article tries to assess how and whether banks are disclosing transition and physical risk, and how and whether they conducted scenario analysis through the lens of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework. Even though banks provided environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure, they paid scant attention to furnishing climate change information to market and central banks, and to prioritize their complying with international frameworks. The article addresses the main research gap in the literature review and focuses on the role of disclosures and central banks’ mandates, sustainability data gap and solutions through machine learning, analysis of deep uncertainty for monetary policy, and the use of scenario analysis when it is impossible to apply deterministic or probabilistic approaches and text mining for central banks in the context of unstructured data.

A Systematic Review On Green Banking Disclosure

This paper presents a systematic review of the topic of Green Banking Disclosure (GBD). GBD has been a growing concept since 2008, with its development bringing about changes, both in terms of the natural and social environments. As such, it is crucial to give it due attention. The study reviewed 50 papers, including 65 empirical ones, and yielded four main findings. Firstly, in terms of theory, legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory, and the concept of Spider profit growth, which serves as an indicator of a company's fund utilization efficiency, were prevalent in the literature. These theories provide a basis for evaluating company management performance, motivating management, and controlling economic resource allocation, ultimately aiding in forecasting future profits and economic events. Secondly, the Green Coin Rating (GCR) concept, comprising six points, played a significant role in the discourse on green banking. Thirdly, the majority of GBD studies were conducted in Muslim-majority countries. The research population included all financial reports of Islamic Commercial Banks during the period 2016-2019. The sample consisted of nine Islamic Commercial Banks that published annual reports up to 2019 and met the criteria for implementing the Green Banking concept. The study suggests that future research endeavors should consider integrating both primary and secondary data to assess the implementation of Green Banking and green financing in banking institutions. This approach would lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the subject and provide a more communicative perspective for customers.

Bank opacity, systemic risk and financial stability

This paper examines the impact of bank opacity on European financial stability. Based on a panel dataset of listed European banks covering the period 2002–2018, I find that bank opacity has a significant influence on the institution-specific contribution to the ∆Conditional Value at Risk and Marginal Expected Shortfall. The enforcement mechanism and the policies introduced by accounting standard setters and regulators for the risk disclosure of banks have a positive impact on the reduction of systemic risk. Both the risk reporting in accordance with IFRS 7 and the measures introduced by the Basel Committee in the form of the Basel Pillar 3 regulation led to an increase in transparency and thus an improvement in financial market stability. As an independent enforcement mechanism, the country-specific strength of the external auditing profession plays a significant role in fostering stability. The results are robust, by using both alternative opacity measures and instrumental-variable estimations (2SLS) to control for potential endogeneity.

The effect of financial performance on islamic ethical identity disclosure of ASEAN sharia banks

This research aims to analyze the influence of Risk Profile, Good Corporate Governance, Earnings and Capital (RGEC) on the disclosure of Islamic ethical identity in Sharia banks in ASEAN. The method used in this analysis is descriptive analysis and regression testing on 23 Islamic banks from 11 ASEAN countries. The research results show that non-performing financing (NPF), which measures risk profile, negatively influences the disclosure of Islamic ethical identity. In contrast, audit committee competency (KAA), as an indicator of good corporate governance, has a positive influence. Likewise, the return on assets (ROA) ratio, which measures earnings, positively influences the disclosure of Islamic ethical identity. However, as a capital indicator, the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) does not have a significant influence. Based on this research, Sharia banks in ASEAN are expected to increase the optimization of their Islamic ethical identity disclosure through risk management, good corporate governance, improving financial performance, and paying attention to capital adequacy. However, this study has limitations, such as a limited sample size and high variability in the dependent variable. Therefore, further research is recommended to expand the sample, add variables, and reduce subjectivity in identifying disclosures of Islamic ethical identity.

The Impact of Green Banking on Profitability (Study on Banking Sector Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Period 2016-2022)

The objective of this study is to determine the impact of green banking on profitability of banks in Indonesia. The sample of this research is the Indonesian banking sector during the period 2016 to 2022. The data utilized in this study were obtained from secondary sources, specifically from 9 banks. In total, there were 63 observations. The measurement of profitability ratio is conducted through the utilization of Return on Asset (ROA). The study using data panel analysis resulting green banking using 21 reported items of Green Banking Disclosure Index positively have impact on profitability of banks. It implies that the increasing green banking practices will increase the profitability of banks, highlighting the use of the separate green banking index measurements outside of the total green banking index might be considered by future researchers