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Banking is a risk-taking industry and its performance ought to be appraised by including risk- taking as a prime consideration in the overall framework. Major objectives of both the Islamic and conventional banks are same. What distinguishes both types of banking are the way these banks pursue to achieving their goals and particular objectives. This study explores relationship of corporate governance with the performance of Islamic and conventional banks by using moderating effect of risk-taking. It aims at finding any difference in the impact of governance and risk taking in banks of two Islamic countries: Malaysia and Pakistan. Our sample consists of eighteen banks from Pakistan and Malaysia which include three Islamic banks and five conventional banks of Pakistan while five Islamic banks and five conventional banks from Malaysia. In Islamic banks, results show that firm size has significant relation with performance in terms of return on assets (ROA). Though effect of Corporate Governance (CG) is insignificant on performance (ROA) but it has significant impact on performance with moderating role of risk in Islamic banks whereas CGI have insignificant relation with performance measure ROE. In Conventional banks, CGI has insignificant impact on performance (ROA) of conventional banks even with moderating effect of risk while CGI has significant effect on ROE with moderating effect of risk. This study provides new insights to management of Islamic and conventional banks that how they can manage risk in managing each type of banks

Allah Bakhsh, Misbah Akram, Shoaib Aslam, Mumtaz Ahmad. (2020) Corporate Governance, Risk-Taking and Financial Performance of Islamic and Conventional Banks: Evidence from Pakistan and Malaysia, Paradigms , Vol 14, Issue .
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