The objective of this study was to investigate on weight lost achieved by participants in Weight Loss Program in Klinik Kesihatan Beserah (KKB) and to find the percentage of successful weight maintainers for at least 1 year after the program. A total of 34 participants who had successfully lost at least 5% of their initial weight after the 6 months

As interest is prohibited, the reliance of Islamic banking towards deposits from depositors is higher than conventional banking. This study is aimed at investigating individual factors that may influence the withdrawal behavior of Malaysian Islamic banks customers. The withdrawal behavior studied here is in conjunction with three major issues which

Problem statement: Diminishing partnership or musharakah mutanaqisah contract in home financing is recently introduced by the Islamic banking industry as an alternative of the bay bi’thaman ajil contract which has received many criticism from shariah scholars as mimicking conventional loan. This study aims to examine customers’ attitude upon di

This paper aims to identify factors distinguish Islamic and conventional bank customers in Indonesia. It tries to relate between bank customers’ religiosity, assessment upon certain factors such as bank performance, bank advertisement and main reasons of using banking services towards their decision on which bank they had joined. Logistic regress

The purpose of this study is to investigate the opinion of scholars of Islamic economics and finance upon which issues should be given higher priority based on its roles in achieving the ultimate goals of Islamic economics and finance. Library study is firstly used to determine research areas in Islamic economics and finance. Afterwards, the pairwi

The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency and performance of five Islamic banks in Bangladesh namely, Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Al- Arafah Islami Bank Limited, Social Islami Bank Limited, Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited and First Security Islami Bank Limited. Data are collected through their published annual reports from the year o

An Islamic bank is now not only facing competition from its peer Islamic banks but also from conventional banks, which offer Islamic banking products through their Islamic subsidiary. When the competition becomes tougher, customers are given more options to choose their banks and switch from their current bank to other Islamic banks. Thus, the obje

The nature of Islamic banks is different from conventional banks which may lead to a different deposit behavior of their depositors. This study aims to analyze the dynamic effects of interest and profit rate changes, production level, inflation and financial crisis towards the fluctuation of total deposits in Malaysian Islamic banks. Using monthly

Islamic banks were experiencing tremendous growth by showing high profitability level and less affected by the financial turmoil. Thus, the objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of bank-specific as well as industry-specific and macroeconomic indicators upon Islamic banks profitability, particularly in Malaysia, for the period of 2006

This paper examines the impact of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors upon the profitability performance of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia using panel data regression analysis. The sample comprises of seventeen conventional banks and thirteen Islamic banks covering the period of 2005-2009. The results show that liquidity ratios and