Faruque and Rahman: Performance Evaluation of Private Commercial Banks of Bangladesh: A Trend Analysis (35-40)
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categories conventional PCBs and Islami shariah based
PCBs. There are nine Foreign Commercial Banks (FCBs)
are operating in Bangladesh as the branches of the banks
which are incorporated in abroad. There are now six non-
scheduled banks in Bangladesh. There are thirty-four FIs
are also operating in Bangladesh (Bangladesh Bank 2018,
https://www.bb.org.bd/fnansys/bankfi.php). 70.18%
schedule banks in Bangladesh are private commercial
banks (PCBs). So, it is an undutiful statement that these
PCBs are the lifeblood of Bangladesh. So the development
of the country highly depends on the development of
these banks. Their performance encourages the
performance of a state. So, for the growth and
development of Bangladesh is depends on the
performance of PCBs development.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Chowdhury (2009) tried to analyze the development and
growth of Selected Private Commercial Banks of
Bangladesh. It is observed that all the selected private
commercial banks can achieve stable growth of branches,
employees, deposits, loans, and advances, net income,
earnings per share during the period of 2002-2006.
Chowdhury and Islam (2007) stated that deposits and loan
advances of Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs) are
less sensitive to interest changes than those of Specialized
Banks (SBs). So SBs should not make an abrupt change in
lending or deposit rates by following the NCBs. If NCBs
change their lending or deposit rates, their deposits or
loans and advances will be affected less than those of SBs.
Moreover, deposits of NCBs have higher volume and
higher volatility than those of SBs. On the other hand,
loans advances of NCBs show a higher volume and higher
volatility than those of SBs.
Siddique and Islam (2001) pointed out that, the commercial
banks, as a whole are performing well and contributing to
the economic development of the country. The average
profitability of all Bangladeshi Banks collectively was 0.09%
during 1980 to 1995 which means that a profit of Tk.0.09
was earned by utilizing assets of Tk.100 in every aspect of
profit; banking sector contributes the national economy as
well as the individual organization.
Almazari (2011) in his study measured the financial
performance of some selected Jordanian commercial
banks for the period 2005-2009. The study used simple
regression analysis. In the study, bank size, asset
management, and operational efficiency were taken as an
independent variable, and the dependent variable was
taken as financial performance represented by; return on
assets and interest income. The study concluded that
banks with higher total deposits, credits, assets, and
shareholders’ equity does not always result in better
profitability performance.
Nimalathasan (2008) undertook a comparative study of
the financial performance of the banking sector in
Bangladesh using the CAMELS rating system. The study
was done on 6562 Branches of 48 Banks in Bangladesh for
the financial year 1999-2006. The study revealed that out
of 48 banks, three banks were rated 01 or Strong, 31 banks
were rated 02 or satisfactory, seven banks were rated 03 or
Fair, five banks were rated 04 or Marginal and, two banks
obtained 05 or unsatisfactorily rating. 1 Nationalized
Commercial Bank (NCB) had unsatisfactorily rating and
other 3 NCBs had the marginal rating.
Dey and Kabir (2012) reveals that all executives of the three
sample banks have placed high emphasis on knowledge of
banking rules and regulations, writing skill and knowledge
about the bank’s products, services and polices, appearance
and dress code, creativity & innovative ideas, attendance and
punctuality, personality, discipline, capacity to taking
independent decision, perseverance, ability to adopt in
changing circumstances, attitude / temperament, human
quality, dynamic /proactive leadership, Initiative, Drive and
Enthusiasm, Ability to negotiate, Power of Judgment in
decision making, Ability to plan, organize and supervise
work, Sense of responsibility of assigned jobs and
commitment to work, Managing capabilities including crisis
Management, marketing ability, ability to collect deposits as
per set target, ability to market company’s banking products
to existing corporate and retail customers, ability to motivate
existing customers to pay the dues in time, ability to enhance
business of both clients and the bank, ability to recover the
outstanding loans of the classified accounts, customer client
Relationship/ dealing with bank’s client and problem-
solving ability in customer need satisfaction.
Malhotra et al. (2011) analyzes the performance of
commercial banks in India during the period 2005 to 2009.
This period covers the pre-credit crisis and the crisis
period. Specifically, the paper examines the behavior of
profitability, cost of intermediation, efficiency, soundness
of the banking system, and industry concentration for
public and private sector Indian commercial banks.
Haque (2013) attempts primarily to measure the financial
performance of some selected private commercial banks
in Bangladesh for the period 2006-2011 and to identify
whether any relationship exists between a bank’s years of
operation and its performance. The study concluded that
there is no specific relationship between the generation of
banks and its performance.
Uddin and Bristy (2014) evaluates the performance of
selected private commercial banks in Bangladesh. In the
study, best efforts have been put on evaluating the
performance. The growing pattern of branches, employees,
deposits, loans, and advances, classified loan, net income
and earnings per share of selected private commercial
banks have been considered to analyze the performance
evaluation of the selected private commercial banks.
Anbalagan and Gurusamy (2013) attempts to analyze the
data with the help of mean, standard deviation, a coefficient
of variation and ratio. The scope of the study is limited to