Strategies to reduce credit risk and liquidity risk to increase bank profitability

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of credit risk and liquidity risk on profitability with loan restructuring and income diversification as moderating variables. The research population is all general banking companies, which were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the period 2018-2021. The research sample was created using the purposive sampling technique and 160 observations were obtained. This study conducts panel data regression analysis using EViews 12 software. The results of this study indicate that an increase in credit risk reduces profitability, liquidity risk does not affect profitability, a loan-restructuring strategy can reduce the effect of credit risk on profitability, and an income-diversification strategy can reduce the effect of liquidity risk on bank profitability. The research findings provide an understanding of banking strategy, namely loan restructuring and income diversification can increase banking profitability under urgent conditions. This study provides support for contingency theory and stakeholder theory. The limitation of this research is that it does not discuss Islamic banking because the policies of those companies are different in terms of rules and there are limited data.