The factors that affect the commercial bank’s profitability in Malaysia / Salfillah Sider

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of bank-specific and macroeconomics factors on commercial bank’s profitability in Malaysia during 2005- 2014. This study focus on the 20 commercial banks includes local and foreign banks. The data of this study is analysed by using panel data Analysis (Fixed Effect Model).The result shows liquidity, bank size and inflation are significant influence to the bank’s profitability while gross domestic product, credit risks and interests rate spread are not significant towards banks’ profitability.