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This book looks at how risk management of banks in Malaysia has evolved and what the banking industry's key challenges are. The book also evaluates the overall health of the banking industry in Malaysia through bank efficiency analyses and compares the conventional and Islamic banks. It examines the effectiveness of bank bailouts in Malaysia.
List of contents
1. The Malaysian Banking Industry. Policies and Practices after the Asian Financial Crisis 2. The Health of the Malaysian Banking Industry 3. Bank Risk Management 4. Bank Bailout Efficacy 5. Conclusion 6. Special Topic: Practitioner Insight on Risk Management Practices
(Eric H.Y. Koh)
About the author
Rozaimah Zainudin is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the banking sector for seven years and was attached to a Banking Operations and System Department. Her areas of research include risk management, derivative markets, corporate finance, and international finance. Her research projects currently involve banking and financial wellbeing.
Chan Sok-Gee is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her commitment to research and publication, especially on the topic of bank performance, has led her to publication in world-recognized journals, such as the
Global Economic Review,
Review of Managerial Science,
Prague Economic Papers, and others. Besides bank performance, her research areas include corporate governance and bank efficiency, economic efficiency analysis, and value-added tax. She has also been recognized as an outstanding young researcher by the University of Malaya. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the
Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting.
Aidil Rizal Shahrin is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research focuses on applied econometrics in the areas of finance and macroeconomics. He has been published in internationally refereed journals, such as the
Journal of Economics and Statistics, the
Romanian Journal of Forecasting, and the
International Journal of Statistics and Economics. Recently, he has focused on bank efficiency, emphasizing the econometrics methodology.
Summary
This book looks at how risk management of banks in Malaysia has evolved and what the banking industry's key challenges are. The book also evaluates the overall health of the banking industry in Malaysia through bank efficiency analyses and compares the conventional and Islamic banks. It examines the effectiveness of bank bailouts in Malaysia.
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'This book is important reading for anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the Malaysian banking industry and how it has come out of and changed since the 1997 crisis.' — Jens Hagendorff, Professor of Finance, The University of Edinburgh
