The purpose of this study is to examine the United Arab Emirates (UAE) national banks' practices of corporate governance regarding the role of the board of directors in the formulation and implementation of bank policies and strategies. A modified questionnaire has been used with two parts; the...

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of ownership structure and competition on risk-taking behaviour of UAE banks during the period 1998–2010. The study covers 15 national banks, including eleven conventional banks and four are Islamic banks. The proportion of ownership by...

The Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”) has become an important component of an increasingly significant global market for Islamic finance. However, the state of academic discussion has not necessarily kept pace with its growing economic import. This paper improves the current...

This paper empirically analyzes the profitability of the four Islamic banks operating in the UAE during the financial period between 2004 and 2009 using three profitability indicators, return on total income, return on assets and return on equity. The researcher uses a variety of techniques,...

The purpose of this study is to determine the Gap between the assets and the liabilities of Islamic and conventional banks. It also finds the impact of liquidity risk, capital adequacy, management efficiency, operating cost, and transaction size on net interest margin for Conventional Banks...

The objective of this paper is to measure the degree of the corporate sustainability disclosure using annual data for listed banks in the UAE financial markets during the period 2003-2013. The results show that the overall level of sustainability disclosure based on sustainability reporting for...

The aim of this paper is to measure the degree of mandatory corporate governance disclosure and examine its impact on the bank's growth using annual data for listed banks on the UAE financial markets during the period 2003-2013. Our empirical results show that the degree of mandatory corporate...