Continuation
Comparison of the financial risks facing conventional and
Islamic banks
Type of financial risk
|
Items of concern
|
|
Conventional banks
|
Islamic banks
|
|
Credit risk
|
Default value at risk
|
Default value at risk Income
expectation for sharing-based assets
|
Market risk
|
Volatility of market variables
|
A lower degree of market
volatility
|
Liquidity risk
|
Maturity mismatches and
alternative funding sources
|
Maturity mismatches and
alternative funding sources
|
Operational risk
|
Hardware/system problems and
fraud
|
Hardware/system problems and
fraud, Compliance with Shari’ah rules, fi duciary risk
|
Legal risk
|
Compliance with local legal
framework
|
Compliance with local legal
framework Compliance with Shari’ah rules
|
Capital structure
|
Level of capitalisation
|
Level of capitalisation
Composition of capital instruments issued by IIFS
|
Source: KFH Research
From the research paper of
European Central Bank
(Authors: F.Mauro, P.Caristi, S.Couderc, A.D.Maria, L.Ho,
B.K.Grewal, S.Masciantonio, S. Ongena and S.Zaher)