Abstract:
The main objectives of this study were to examine the Roles of Capital Markets on the Financial Performance of Commercial Bank. The study was guided by three objectives such as: To examine the effect of equity market on the financial performance, to assess the effect of bond market on the financial performance, to establish the effect of securitized products on the financial performance of Bank of Kigali. The study adopted quantitative approach to collect data from 32 respondents’ employees of BK by using purposive sampling technique. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS, and the instruments of data collection were questionnaire, interview, and documentary techniques.
The results show that perceptions of respondents about effect of bond market on the financial performance of Bank of Kigali Rwanda show that more than 84.4% of respondents confirmed that Size of Equity market affects market capitalization for generating net profit margin for BK; and 84.4% that size dimension of equity market reflects turnover ratio of BK.
The R-Square was .759 while ANOVA shows the Sum of Squares of 7.875. The results on the effect of bond market on the financial performance of Bank of Kigali confirmed by 84.4% of respondents who said that Bond market of BK helps to increase its interest income; and 78.1% of respondents confirmed that accessibility of Bond market facilitates an increase of capital gain to BK in Rwanda. R-Square was .610 and ANOVA table shows that Sum of Squares of 7.875. The effect of securitized products on the financial performance of Bank of Kigali confirmed by more than 84.4% who said that commercial mortgages offered by BK increases the internal return of this commercial bank; 78.1% of respondents participated in the study confirmed credit card receivables facilities BK to increase income from borrowers of this bank; and 68.8% agreed that the Auto loans and student loans of BK increase the net profit margin. R-Square was .743 and its adjusted R-Square was .638.
ANOVA table shows that Sum of Squares was 7.875 combining the regression of 5.850; and residual of 2.025. Mean Square was .650 for regression while .092 was on the side of residual in the Mean Square. The relationship between Capital Markets and financial performance of Bank of Kigali was shown by The Linear Regression Test between Capital Markets and profitability of BK Rwanda show the result of
As conclusion, based to the findings, there is significant positive effect of Capital Markets on the financial performance of Bank of Kigali in Rwanda. By recommending, BK should continue do improvement of capital market because they are not yet achieving the needed level of performance.
