Banks’ non-traditional activities under regulatory changes: impact on risk, performance and capital adequacy

Jean-Pierre Gueyié, Alaa Guidara and Van Son Lai

Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 51, issue 29, 3184-3197

Abstract: Using the big six Canadian chartered banks quarterly financial statements and daily stock market data from 1982 to 2018, we examine the impact of non-interest income on Canadian banks’ risk, performance and capital under the different major regulatory changes made to the Bank Act of Canada. Our results show that Canadian banks’ expansion into non-traditional activities had slightly decreased their risks and significantly improved their performance benefitting from income diversification. Moreover, while adhering to capital adequacy regulation, reshuffling banks’ portfolio towards non-traditional activities did not reduce Canadian banks’ capital ratio. In spite of the re-regulation towards universal banking against ring-fencing, this feature buttresses the effectiveness of capital adequacy regulation in Canada in linking banks capital allocation with their risk taking.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1569197

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