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Liquidity risk management: conventional versus Islamic banking system in Egypt

Nevine Sobhy Abdel Megeid (Accounting and Finance Department, College of Management and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt)

Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research

ISSN: 1759-0817

Article publication date: 13 February 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

This research aims to analyze and compare the effectiveness of liquidity risk management of Islamic and conventional banking in Egypt to ascertain which of the two banking systems are performing better.

Design/methodology/approach

A sample of six conventional banks (CBs) and two Islamic banks (IBs) in Egypt was selected. Using the liquidity ratios, the investigation involves analyzing the financial statements for the period of 2004-2011. The data were obtained from Bank scope database.

Findings

The research found that in Egypt, CBs perform better in terms of liquidity risk management than IBs. The liquidity risk management significant differences between IBs and CBs could be attributed more cash availability to CBs than to IBs, in addition, Egyptian Central Bank regulations on capital and liquidity requirements for IBs disconcert IBs’ performance.

Practical implications

This research facilitates the bankers, academician, scholars and bankers to have an alluded picture about Egyptian banking developments in liquidity risk management. The results can be used by bankers’ policy decision-makers to improve and enhance their consideration for liquidity risk management.

Originality/value

This research covers a period and a country that compares CBs’ and IBs’ liquidity risk management. Its value is attributed to the increasing differentiation between CBs and IBs.

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Citation

Abdel Megeid, N.S. (2017), "Liquidity risk management: conventional versus Islamic banking system in Egypt", Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 100-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIABR-05-2014-0018

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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