Title:
EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT ON BANK CAPITALIZATION RATIO: EVIDENCE FROM COMMERCIAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL BANKS IN TANZANIA

Authors:
Daud Mkali Fadhil*, Dr. Salvio Elias Macha and Dr. Salama Yusuf Yusuf, Tanzania

Abstract:
Financial market development in many developing countries is a series of financial market reforms aimed at improving the market and the financial system in general. Theoretically, major reforms that improve the stock market are expected to increase bank performance by reducing bank risk of default by increasing the bank capitalization ratio. This results in stability in the financial market and banking sector. Nonetheless, empirical literature in addition shows that the quality of the financial market may be at high risk following the reforms process because of the integration effects of the markets across the countries or regions. A good example of this is the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. Based on this background, the present study investigates the extent to which the financial market development in Tanzania influences the bank's capitalization ratio (commercial and non-commercial banks). Employing a two-step system GMM technique in a dynamic panel dataset regression model for the investigation for a period of 2012 to 2021, while macroeconomic and bank-specific variables have been used as control variables. We proxy financial market development as stock market development. This study finds that stock market development in Tanzania measured in terms of stock market turnover ratio improves bank capitalization ratio with the goals of enhancing the financial market and maintaining stability in the banking sector.