Evidence has shown that Islamic banking is experiencing tremendous development since the last three decades, especially in Malaysia. This study is aimed at investigating factors thatdetermine the Islamic banking performance in Malaysia, particularly in the period of 2006 to 2010. The predictors are loan loss provision to total assets, net loans to total assets, total overhead cost to total asse...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all I would like to thank my ALLAH Almighty Who gave me the courage, health, and energy to accomplish my thesis in due time and without Whose help this study which required untiring efforts would have not been possible to complete within the time limits. key elements required from the supervisor(s) to write and complete a thesis of a good standard and a quality within d...

The Central Bank of Malaysia is facing unique challenges in transmitting its monetary policies due to Islamic banking, which strictly prohibits the interest payments. This article develops new methodology to calculate the demand for money function in the presence of Islamic banking. It indicates some weaknesses in the existing mechanism and raises thought that would be helpful in revising the m...

In this paper, we examined an effective business model for the ecosystem of Islamic FinTech for Resalat Islamic Bank. The article discussed three phases of Resalat Bank development as a Platform in formulating social business models that require new value propositions, value constellations, and profit equations, and as such, resembles business model innovation. The result of the qualitative met...

This study is aimed at examining the long run and short run relationships between both Islamic and conventional financial development with the economic growth in the Bahrain dual financial system. Using quarterly data (2000:1-2010:4) retrieved from Monthly Statistical Bulletin of Central bank of Bahrain (CBB) and International Financial Statistics (IFS) of International Monetary Funds (IMF), th...

This study examines the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction regarding Islamic banks as well as conventional banks in Pakistan. It also investigated how service quality affects customer satisfaction by assessing the magnitude of the relationship between selected variables. This study is important due to an emerging trend of Islamic banking practices in Pakistan in the ...

In the Western world, consumers complain about the soaring of non-interest bank fees during the recent years, the post global financial crisis in particular. Commercial banks charge a variety of non-interest fees for their transactions. This paper empirically tests whether the free charges are significantly different between conventional commercial banks and interest free Islamic banks. The ave...

The core principles of Islam lay great emphasis on social justice, inclusion, and sharing of resources between the haves and the have nots. Islamic finance addresses the issue of “financial inclusion” or “access to finance” from two directions — one through promoting risk-sharing contracts that provide a viable alternative to conventional debt-based financing, and the other through specific ins...

This paper aims to identify factors distinguish Islamic and conventional bank customers in Indonesia. It tries to relate between bank customers’ religiosity, assessment upon certain factors such as bank performance, bank advertisement and main reasons of using banking services towards their decision on which bank they had joined. Logistic regression and neural networks models are used to answer...

Islamic finance in Australia has witnessed the rapid growth since it was first introduced in 1989 with the Muslim Community Cooperative Australia (MCCA). The operation of Islamic Financial Services Providers in Australia is still subject to basically the same laws and regulations as their conventional counterparts and applies the same conventional interest-based framework for regulatory and sup...