The determinants of Islamic bank's profitability in Asean countries / Muhammad Hafizuddin Abd Jalal

This paper is aims to investigate the factor that affect the Islamic Bank's profitability in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. This study will focus on six Islamic banks in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore that registered under Bank Negara Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore bank. The internal factors that may influences the bank profitability will be observe closely. The dependant variable in this study is Islamic Bank's profitability that will be measure by Return on Equity. Four selected independent variable in this study is non performing loan, base lending rate, interest rate, inflation rate and gross domestic product. The data from the sample of six Islamic Bank from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore are pooled for 8 years (2010-2017). The data will be relied on the annual statement of Islamic Bank. Total number of observation is 48. The data can be obtained from Websites, Thompson Reuters and Annual Report. This study used quantitative secondary data.