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Bank Performance Determinants: State of the Art and Future Research Avenues

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  • 1. Department of finance (LAREF), The Higher Institute of Commerce and Business Administration (Groupe ISCAE), Casablanca, Morocco

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This paper aims to bring an up-to-date and organized review of literature on the determinants of banks
performance and suggesting new research avenues. This paper discusses the main approaches that
molded the debate on banks’ performance and their determinants. Understanding them allows bank
managers and regulators to improve the sectors’ efficiency and to deal with the new trends of their
industry, and academicians to enrich research and knowledge on this field. We show that despite the
importance of the existent literature, this paper’s subject is still a ripe field for research, especially when
considering the evolution of FinTechs and digitalization.

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