What enables Islamic banks to contribute in global financial reintermediation?

Abstract

Conventional banks which once were competing with non-banking financial institutions and capital markets today face the new challenge of being reintermediated by Islamic banks. Earlier academic research has been debating over disintermediation and reintermediation of conventional banks, but consistently failed to address reintermediation through Islamic banks as a possibility. This study, however, fills the void by addressing the novel possibility of reintermediation “within” the banking sector and is the first attempt to analyze and compare Islamic and conventional banks from the perspective of reintermediated financial markets. After identifying the reintermediation trends led by Islamic banks we investigate several bank specific financial and non-financial characteristics that might have enabled Islamic banks to emerge as an important player in reintermediated financial markets. By keeping our focus on slightly modified version of CAMELS framework where ‘S’ represents “Service Quality” we find that along with better capitalization (C) and improved liquidity (L), better service quality (S) is another distinguished feature of Islamic banks that might be linked with their high degree of intermediation.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2017.12.001
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing
Additional Information: © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publication ISSN: 0927-538X
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 08:24
Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2018 15:02
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-12
Published Online Date: 2017-12-05
Accepted Date: 2017-12-01
Authors: Naqvi, Bushra
Rizvi, S.k.a.
Uqaili, Hina Ahmed
Chaudhry, S.m. (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8769-8920)

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