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Financial system has a significant impact on national economic development. The banking industry, which particularly plays a decisive role in the financial system, not only serves as the bridge for provision of social funds, but also helps stabilize and facilitate economic development. Therefore, the operational performance of the banking industry is of great importance. However, owing to the influence of the meager profit age, our domes-tic financial institutions perform less favorably than foreign financial institutions on opera-tional performance and operating profit. This study aimed to examine the differences in operational performance among different bank branches by analyzing several indices of operational performance, including branch marketing capability, credit quality, and profit-ability. It is hoped that findings of this study can serve as a reference for bank managers when they manage the operational performance of bank branches. This study focused on a domestic financial institution, Bank C, because it had the greatest number of bank branches in Taiwan. The valid samples included a total of 264 branches, whose operational performance was analyzed by examining factors such as their operating years, operating scale, major credit customers, and location. Their respective marketing capability (i.e., total credit amount, fee in-come and risk-free rate of employees to obtain certificates), credit quality (i.e., overdue amount, ratio of overdue and bad debt amount) and profitability (i.e., contribution of each employee and losses, operating profit and loss, deposit and loan spreads) and other variables were analyzed by means of correla-tion analysis, one-way analysis of variance and cluster analysis. Findings of the study in-dicated that operating year, operating scale, major credit customers, and location of bank branches significantly influenced their overall operational performance. Through cluster analysis, all bank units were further divided into three clusters: (1) the high-quality-low- performance type, (2) the low-credit-quality type, and (3) the high-performance type. By means of identifying the common attributes of each branch cluster, this study also provides suggestions for bank managers in judging the feasibility of establishing new bank branches, enhancing bank profitability or merging different bank branches.
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