The influence of corporate governance practices on banks' financial health / Nurul Ameera Lokman

This study examines the relationship between disclosure and transparency, board of directors' characteristics, shareholder rights and investor relations and financial health of 54 Malaysian banks. Data has been collected through annual reports in selected bank's website from 2014 to 2016 with a total sample of 162 banks. The findings shown that the financial health of Malaysian banks was influenced by implementation corporate governance in their management processes. Hence, the result shows a significant relationship between board of directors’ characteristics and financial health of Malaysian banks. Nevertheless, the findings discover that and transparency as well as shareholder rights and investor relations provided negative relationship with the financial Malaysian banks. This study makes a few contributions. This study provides empirical evidence on the positive relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and financial health of Malaysian bang Other than that, knowledge derived from this study will assist in minimizing the gap corporate. governance and finance teaching at univesi level · Malaysia. This study also can assist the bank itself in forecasting their financial health to prevent poor financial performance in the future.