Comparison of Financial Performance of Participation and Conventional Banks Using Multicriteria Methods: Case Study in Turkey

Abstract

The participation Bank is the one dealing with Islamic banking system, while the conventional bank deals with the interest in its loan which falls under the rule of usury that is a sin in Islam. Nowadays Islamic banking system is considered as the alternative to the conventional banking system, that's why, it's important to compare the financial performances of conventional and participation banks. This study aims to compare the performance of participation banks represented by 3 Islamic banks with the performance of conventional banks represented by 6 conventional banks in Turkey through ranking each bank alone using multi criteria data analysis using MAUT and TOPSIS methods, which depend on some financial ratios were collected from the annual financial reports, for the period of 5 years during 2011 to 2015; To rank the years from best year to worst year of each bank according to their performance; first the most common five financial ratios are calculated for each banks during 5 years, then applying the MAUT and TOPSIS methods to those indicators. The final findings of this research use MAUT and TOPSIS methods with each bank approach and all banks together approach. The result showed the best performance of all selected Turkish banks occurred in 2011 for Islamic banks, 2011 and 2012 for Conventional banks, and it is not highly affected by the method is used; it might have different findings using a higher number of banks, a different period, or applying other methods.