Measuring and analyzing the impact of foreign investment banking on the performance of foreign banks - Iraq case study after a year (2005)

Abstract

The research aims to know the influence exerted by foreign investment banking on banking performance indicators, as well as studying patterns with identifying strengths and weaknesses that affect attracting foreign banking investments, and evaluating foreign participation and its impact on the performance of banks, the study sample, by highlighting the relationship between foreign investment banking and the performance of foreign banks in the Iraqi banking sector, using advanced standard methods based on longitudinal time series models (Panel Data) and according to the developed statistical program (Eviews12), and verifying the extent of influence between the independent variable and the variables of foreign banks participating in the Iraqi banking sector.

The most important findings of the researcher, the research proved that some performance indicators are indicative of foreign banking investment, and this means that some banks exploited these investments in achieving profits and others did not exploit those investments in achieving profits, and despite their huge capitals and their many numbers, these did not contribute Foreign banks that are very involved in transferring expertise, improving the quality of banking services, or providing financing to the Iraqi economy, due to the pattern of entry of the majority of these banks and the quality of the banks involved, and because of the areas of profitability that are not related to the provision of real banking services.