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

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  • Jean-Pierre Gueyié
  • Alaa Guidara
  • Van Son Lai

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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.

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  • Jean-Pierre Gueyié & Alaa Guidara & Van Son Lai, 2019. "Banks’ non-traditional activities under regulatory changes: impact on risk, performance and capital adequacy," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(29), pages 3184-3197, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:51:y:2019:i:29:p:3184-3197
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1569197
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    1. Suha Alawi, 2019. "Relationship between Capital Requirement, Ownership Structure, and Financial Performance in Saudi Arabian Listed Companies," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 9(9), pages 1077-1090, September.
    2. Mohamed Dia & Amirmohsen Golmohammadi & Pawoumodom M. Takouda, 2020. "Relative Efficiency of Canadian Banks: A Three-Stage Network Bootstrap DEA," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-25, April.
    3. Di Johnson & John Rodwell & Thomas Hendry, 2021. "Analyzing the Impacts of Financial Services Regulation to Make the Case That Buy-Now-Pay-Later Regulation Is Failing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-20, February.

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