Market risk management and its impact on financial performance in commercial banks

Abstract

The research aims to study the impact of market risks on the financial performance ofprivate commercial banks, targeting a sample of Iraqi private banks for the period from 2004-2018. Thefinancial performance was measured using the camel’s model, while the market risk was measuredthrough the index of investment in securities Current assets. The cross-sectional data was adopted for thepurpose of including the data in the simple regression model that was adopted to study the effect of theindependent variable on the dependent variable. The results of the research indicated that there was astatistically significant effect of market risks on the financial performance of private commercial banks,which amounted to 25%.