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Bank margins and relatedprofitability in South Africa 
A study
KPMG20 November 1998
This report contains 58 pages
 
 
  Bank margins and related profitability in South Africa20 November 1998
kpmg
 
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Contents1 Introduction and scope of study 
1
2 How the banking industry works 
3
2.1 An overview 
3
2.2 Banking risks 
3
2.3 Bank profitability 
4
2.4 Minimising interest rate risks 
7
2.5 Interest rates are key to bank profits 
7
2.6 How to analyse a bank  
8
3 Interest rate formation 
14
3.1 What is an interest rate? 
14
3.2 Forms that interest might take 
14
3.3 Markets for credit 
15
3.4 Changes in the supply and demand for credit 
17
3.5 The changing value of money 
18
3.6 The role of risk in determining interest rates 
22
3.7 The role of the Reserve Bank in determining interest rates 
23
3.8 Interest rate margins 
25
4 Determinants of bank interest margins and profitability 
28
4.1 Background 
28
4.2 The data 
28
4.3 Empirical results 
32
4.4 Conclusions 
34
5 Banking in South Africa 
36
5.1 Introduction 
36
5.2 Overview 
36
5.3 Capital 
38
5.4 Return 
40
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