, Malaysia and present factor and cluster analyses to identify the importance of choice criteria for Islamic mortgage selection … mortgage providers (i.e. Islamic banking institutions such as full-fledged Islamic banks, conventional banks with Islamic … windows and conventional banks with Islamic subsidiaries). In addition, this paper adds to the literature in the area of home …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to validate the concern that banks' increasing involvement in securitization … activity restrains banks' lending, as well as their degree of risk tolerance. Theoretical frameworks claim that securitization … reduces risk, hence decreasing banks' degree of risk aversion. Subsequently, banks would be motivated to increase their …

Islamic banks. Most importantly, this study considers establishing a specific rank of choice criteria for Islamic home … of 150 Malaysian bank customers in Labuan, Malaysia. Of these, 141 questionnaires were returned with a response rate … which is confined to Labuan, Malaysia. Second, this study restricted the use of factor analysis since the data did not allow …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to validate the concern that banks' increasing involvement in securitization … activity restrains banks' lending, as well as their degree of risk tolerance. Theoretical frameworks claim that securitization … reduces risk, hence decreasing banks' degree of risk aversion. Subsequently, banks would be motivated to increase their …

the Islamic and conventional banking systems in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach - Both long- and short …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the main factors that motivate customers to deal with Islamic banks … particularly in a dual banking environment, like in the case of Malaysia. A discussion on factors relating to corporate social … four different regions in Malaysia. The Islamic banking criteria ranking as perceived by the respondents are analysed using …

comprised of 150 customers of two fully fledged Islamic banks in Malaysia: Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad and Bank Muamalat Malaysia … the case of conventional banks, Islamic banks are expected to offer products that consider the needs of their customers … study is the narrow focus of the survey on the customers of two fully fledged Islamic banks. The second limitation of this …

the Islamic and conventional banking systems in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Both long‐ and short …

Purpose -The purpose of this study is to examine the factors which affect loss provision for loans and investment in … Murabaha, Musharka, and Mudarabah for banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The effect of prior period earnings … provisions of banks are examined for the period 2000-2003. Design/methodology/approach -To test the factors that explain the loan …

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine income smoothing practices in Islamic banks. It first focuses on detecting income …/methodology/approach – The paper explores income smoothing practices on a sample of 66 Islamic banks over the period 2001‐2006 using Beidleman …'s and Eckel's coefficients. Data are obtained from the Bankscope database. To test the use of LLPs to smooth Islamic banks …