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Effect of Cash Reserves on Performance of

Commercial Banks in Kenya: A Comparative Study

between National Bank and Equity Bank Kenya

Limited

Aloys Jared Oganda

MBA Candidate School of Business and Economics, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science

and Technology, Kenya

Vitalis Abuga Mogwambo

Lecturer School of Business and Economics, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and

Technology, Kenya

Simeyo Otieno

Lecturer School of Business and Economics, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and

Technology, Kenya

Abstract

Banks optimize their liquidity risk by assuming the externalities posed by their choices on the overall

risk of the financial system. The banking sector in Kenya has experienced liquidity challenges ranging

from funding to market risks. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of cash reserves on

performance of commercial banks in Kenya. The study found that cash reserves had a strong negative

correlation with return on equity giving a significant negative relationship with performance of Equity

bank. The study recommended that banks should minimize cash reserves and instead invest this

money in productive investments, diversify their sources of funding, diversify their investments of

these funds.

Introduction

The banking sector plays a critical role in the development process and is expected to drive high levels

of savings and financing of Kenya’s investment needs. Despite its importance, the sector’s growth

including other monetary intermediation declined from 10.1 per cent in 2015 to 7.1% in 2016.

Moreover, ROE declined to 24.8 percent in December 2016 from 27 percent in September 2016 (KNBS

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report, 2017). Further, the Kenyan banking sector has experienced a number of challenges including

funding and market risks (CBK, 2016). For instance, Imperial Bank Limited and Chase Bank Limited are

under receivership while Dubai Bank Kenya Limited was liquidated in 2015 (CBK report, 2016).

National Bank is also experiencing liquidity challenges and despite the government ownership of

70.55% (22.5%, Treasury and 48.05%, NSSF), it has the highest cost to Income ratio at 64.6% against

the industry average of 47.1% and the largest NPLs to loans at 42.1% against the industry average of

10.6%, with one of lowest NPL coverages at 18.1% against the industry average of 35.4% (Cytonn

Investments report, 2016).

Despite Equity bank having had an improvement in NIM from 10.6% in 2015 to 11.1% in 2016, ROE

however reduced from 25.5% in 2015 to 21.5% in 2016 while ROA declined to 3.7% in 2016 from 4.5%

in 2016 (Cytonn Investments report, 2017).These banks are exposed to liquidity related risks and

inadequate framework to support the banking business. The review of empirical studies showed

mixed results as to how and to what extent liquidity risk management affects performance of

commercial banks. Therefore this study sought to close the gaps by providing a deeper understanding

of the effect of liquidity risk management on the performance of commercial banks in Kenya using a

comparative analysis approach.

Objectives of the Study

The study sought to determine the effect of cash reserves on performance of commercial banks in

Kenya.

LITERATURE REVIEW

This chapter presents the concept of commercial banks, managing cash reserves, sources of liquidity

risk, empirical and theoretical literature on liquidity risk management and the performance of

commercial banks.

The Concept of Commercial Banks

A commercial bank is a financial institution, which provides services such as accepting deposits, giving

business loans and auto loans, mortgage lending and basic investment products like savings accounts

and certificates of deposit. The Banking industry in Kenya is governed by the Companies Act, the

Banking Act, the Central Bank of Kenya Act and the various prudential guidelines issued by CBK. Kenya

has a total of 42 commercial banks with two banks; Chase bank and Imperial bank in receivership, 1

mortgage finance company, 12 microfinance banks, 8 representative offices of foreign banks, 86

foreign exchange bureaus, 14 money remittance providers and 3 credit reference bureaus (Cytonn,

2017).

Sources of Liquidity Risk for Banks

Liquidity risk is the possibility that over a specific time period, the bank will become unable to settle

obligations with immediacy (Drehmann & Nikolaou, 2009). The vulnerability of banks to liquidity risk

is determined by the funding risk and the market risk. The funding liquidity risk is caused by the

maturity mismatch between inflows and outflows and/or the sudden and unexpected liquidity needs

due to contingency conditions. The market liquidity risk refers to the inability to sell assets at or near

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the fair value, and in the case of a relevant sale in a small market; it can emerge as a price slump

(Brunnermeier & Pedersen, 2009).

On the liability side, there is a large uncertainty on the amount of withdrawals by depositors or

renewal of rolled-over inter-bank loans. This is especially so when the bank is under suspicion of

insolvency, when there is a temporary shortage of liquidity or when the economy undergoes a

macroeconomic shock. On the assets side also, there is some uncertainty on the size of new requests

for loans to expect or renewal of existing loans. The bank could refuse to grant these new loans and

lead to the contraction of profit due to the foregone interest income. Off-balance sheet operations

are a significant source of liquidity risk for banks such as credit lines and other commitments (Rochet,

2008).

Managing Cash Reserves

These comprise of required reserves and excess reserves. Required reserves are the proportion of

deposits Commercial banks are required by law to keep at the Central Bank. When the Central Bank

needs to significantly adjust the amount of money circulating in the economy, it can increase or

decrease the cash reserves. These reserves are held in the CBK at no interest. They are currently set

at 5.25 percent of the total of a bank’s domestic and foreign currency deposit liabilities. To facilitate

commercial banks’ liquidity management, commercial banks are currently required to maintain their

cash reserves based on a daily average level from the 15th of the previous month to the 14th of the

current month and not to fall below 3 percent on any day (CBK, 2017). Excess reserves are any deposit

by a bank with the central bank in excess of the reserve requirement. In a bank’s statement of

financial position, the cash reserves are referred to as cash and balances with the central bank and

they shield the bank against unexpected events such as unusual large withdrawals by depositors or

bank runs. A bank always tries to avoid capital injection from the government because it may place

it at the government’s mercy (Jeanne & Svensson, 2007). Therefore to avoid this, the bank should

hold highly liquid assets as reserves since they can be sold or pledged to meet the funding risks in a

short time improve the maturity transformation (Goodhart, 2008).

Bank Performance

Financial measures are considered the most used parameter of business performance measurement,

especially in the current economic climate. These performance indicators are important to the

shareholders and depositors who are major beneficiaries of a bank. Profitability is the most important

measure of success of a business and it measures the extent to which a business generates a profit

from the factors of production; labor, management and capital. Most growing businesses ultimately

target increased profits. Bank profitability is the bank’s ability to create revenue in excess of cost, in

relation to its capital base. A sound and profitable banking sector contributes significantly to financial

system stability as it is better placed to withstand negative economic shocks Brissimis, Athanasoglou,

& Delis, (2005). Profitability and liquidity are indicators of corporate health and performance of

commercial banks and all profit oriented ventures, (Eljelly, 2004). Profitability analysis focuses on the

relationship between revenues and expenses and on the level of profits relative to the size of

investment in the business (Mesquita & Lara, (2003). It is measured by ratios; ROA, ROE and NIM that

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summarize large quantities of financial data to make qualitative judgement on performance

(Velnampy and Niresh, 2012).

Cash Reserves and Performance of Banks

Arif and Anees (2012), studied Liquidity risk and performance of banking system in Pakistan focusing

on conventional banks. Unstructured interviews were used to gather primary data while secondary

data from annual reports was extracted for 22 banks covering a period of 6 years from 2004 to 2009

and used a correlational research design. The study found that increase in cash reserves increases a

bank’s earnings because adequate cash reserves will also the bank to avoid fire sale risk and decrease

the bank’s reliance on the repo market thus reducing the cost associated with overnight borrowing.

This study recommended that a bank should maintain sufficient cash reserves to mitigate liquidity

risk. Despite the recommendation that banks should maintain sufficient cash reserves, the study did

not consider the opportunity cost of holding these reserves rather than investing them in earning

assets.

Udeh (2015), studied the impact of monetary policy instruments on profitability of commercial banks

in Nigeria: a case of zenith bank Plc experience using a descriptive research design. The study utilized

time series data collected from published financial statements of Zenith Bank Plc as well as Central

Bank of Nigeria Bulletin from 2005 to 2012. Four research questions and four hypotheses were raised

for the study. Pearson Product moment correlation technique was used to analyze the data

collected while t-test statistic was used in testing the hypotheses. The found a very low positive

relationship exists between Profit Before Tax of Zenith Bank plc and the cash reserve rate implying

that cash reserve ratio does not have any significant effect on profitability of Zenith Bank Plc and

recommended that management of banks should look beyond monetary policies to enhance their

profits.

Adebayo, Adeyanju and Olabode (2011) examined liquidity management and profitability of

commercial banks Nigeria. The findings of this study indicate that there is significant relationship

between liquidity and profitability, meaning that profitability of commercial banks is significantly

influenced by liquidity. When banks hold adequate reserves, their profitability would improve.

Adequate liquidity helps the bank minimize liquidity risk and financial crises. The bank can absorb any

possible unforeseen financial position. However, if liquid assets are held excessively, profitability

could diminish because they have no or little interest generating capacity. The opportunity cost of

holding low return assets would eventually outweigh the benefit of any increase in the bank’s liquidity

resiliency as perceived by funding markets (Mashhad, 2013).

Punita & Somaiya (2006) investigated the impact of monetary policy on the profitability of banks in

India between 1995 and 2000. The monetary variables were bank rate, lending rates, cash reserve

ratio and statutory ratio, and each regressed on banks profitability independently. Lending rate was

found to exact positive and significant influence on banks profitability, which indicates a fall in lending

rates will reduce the profitability of the banks. Also bank cash reserve ratio and statutory ratio were

found to have significantly affected profitability of banks negatively.

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Mwangi (2014) studied the effect of liquidity risk management on financial performance of

Commercial Banks in Kenya. The study involved all the 43 Commercial Banks in Kenya analyzed for a

period from 2010-2013. The results of the research showed that liquidity risk management has a

significant negative relationship with financial performance of Commercial Banks and concluded that

holding more liquid assets as compared to total assets would lead to lower returns to Commercial

Banks in Kenya whereas holding more liquid assets as compared to total deposits would lead to lower

returns to Commercial Banks in Kenya because the idle liquid assets are not generating income to

offset the interest to be paid on the customers deposits.

Tom (2015), studied the effect of liquidity on profitability of commercial banks in Kenya using a

descriptive research design approach over a period of 5 years from 2010 to 2014. Secondary data

was used and focus was on current ratio, liquidity ratio, deposits and interest rate on profitability and

found out that liquidity has a positive effect on profitability of commercial banks. The study

concluded that if Liquidity problems are not addressed at the earliest opportunity, depositors

demands may prove difficult to meet, bank’s profitability and capital would be impaired and in

extreme circumstances, it may cause the collapse a bank and recommended that liquidity risk may

be mitigated by maintaining sufficient cash reserves. Adequate cash reserves will decrease the bank’s

reliance on the repo market which consequently will reduce the cost associated with overnight

borrowing and insurance cost. The study did not consider the effect of foregone opportunity to invest

in the market despite the need to maintain sufficient reserves. Sufficient reserves were not

operationalized in the study thus being ambiguous, thus this study will shed light as to the level of

cash reserves to hold considering the need to diversify the revenue to the banks and take advantage

of current investment opportunities.

Research Gap

The review of literature show mixed results and conclusions on the effect of liquidity risk

management on the performance of a bank. For instance, Otieno et al (2016), found a significant

positive relationship between liquidity risk management and financial performance of microfinance

banks in Kenya. Macharia (2013) found a positive relationship between liquidity and profitability of

banks in Kenya, Lartey et al., (2013) established that there was a very weak positive relationship

between the liquidity and the profitability of the listed banks in Ghana while Abera (2012) concluded

that the impact of 24 Ethiopian banks’ liquidity on their performance remains uncertain and further

research is required. Most of the studies relied only on secondary data and thus had the limitation of

being obsolete since in our rapidly changing environment, information becomes quickly outdated.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This study adopted a descriptive survey research design with a comparative analysis approach for it

portrays an accurate profile of situations and all the subjects that form the population are included

in the sample (Cooper, 1999). The target population for this study comprised of two commercial

banks operating in Kenya. To obtain a full view of liquidity risk management and performance of

commercial banks in Kenya through a comparative approach, a census of the selected commercial

banks was done and for each bank, data was collected for 10 years from 2007 to 2016. Operations

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Directors, Chief Finance Officers, Credit Directors and Treasury Directors of the commercial banks

were also interviewed. The data was obtained from published financial statements (audited

statements of financial position and income statements) and annual reports obtained from the banks

websites and publications from the head offices of the banks. Qualitative data was gathered through

an interview schedule. The data analysis for this study was carried out using both descriptive and

inferential statistics. SPSS Version 21 software was used to generate descriptive and inferential

statistics. Data analysis was guided by correlational matrix.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Performance of commercial banks

The study sought to establish the performance of commercial banks using three constructs namely

ROA, ROE and NIM. The results are presented as in tables below

ROA (%)

Statistics

Equity

NBK

Mean

4.828

1.619

Median

4.83

1.715

Std. Deviation

0.64475

1.4139

Variance

0.41571

1.9991

Minimum

3.56

-0.94

Maximum

5.64

3.37

Source: Research data (2017)

ROE (%)

Statistics

Equity

NBK

Mean

25.3

10.95

Median

26.615

11.995

Std. Deviation

6.46

10.44

Variance

41.68

109

Minimum

12.67

-10.84

Maximum

33.39

22.54

Source: Research data (2017)

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NIM (%)

Statistics

Equity

NBK

NIM%

Mean

11.82

8.221

Median

11.83

8.39

Std. Deviation

2.181

1.138

Variance

4.755

1.294

Minimum

6.53

6.44

Maximum

14.87

10.63

Source: Research data (2017)

Equity bank had a positive financial performance through 2007 – 2016. The mean of ROA, ROE and

NIM was 4.83%, 25.30% and 11.82 % respectively. Their median was 4.83%, 26.62% and 11.83%

respectively with a minimum of 3.56%, 12.67% and 6.53% and a maximum of 5.64%, 33.39% and

14.87%. as indicated by tables 4.1, 4.2 and table 4.3. This suggests that the utilization of assets to

generate returns for the bank is low compared to the returns generated by shareholders equity and

the positive NIM indicates that there is adequate usage of liabilities to generate wealth in the form

of interest income to the bank. There is low variation as indicated by standard deviation of 0.64%,

6.46% and 2.18% for ROA, ROE and NIM.

The performance of NBK was negative for one year and then improved thereafter. The mean of ROA,

ROE and NIM was 1.62%, 10.95% and 8.22 %. This implies that the ability of NBK to generate wealth

in relation to its asset base is low as compared to the returns generated using shareholders’ funds.

The positive NIM indicates that the bank is generating more interest income hence it is paying less

interest expense to depositors. The median was 1.72%, 11.995% and 8.39% for ROA, ROE and NIM

respectively with a minimum of -0.94%, -10.84% and 6.44% while the maximum was 3.37%, 22.54%

and 10.63% respectively as indicated by tables above.

Cash Reserves and Bank Liquidity

The study sought to determine the descriptive statistics for cash reserves as a variable for liquidity

risk management. The results obtained are as in table below

Cash Reserves and Bank Liquidity

Statistics

Equity

NBK

Cash

Reserves

(billions

Mean

12.672

8.173

Median

11.165

6.725

Std. Deviation

7.70331

4.83588

Variance

59.341

23.3857

Minimum

5.15

3.37

Maximum

30.71

16.97

Source: Research data (2017)

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The mean of cash reserves for Equity bank was 12.672 billion, with a minimum and maximum of 5.15

billion and 30.71 billion. There is a high variation in cash reserves maintained by the bank as reflected

by a standard deviation of 7.70 billion which is 60.77% (coefficient of variation) of the mean as

indicated in table 4.4. The cash reserves held are in excess of the required reserves. These excess

reserves are necessary to shield the bank against liquidity problems by providing a liquidity buffer

and hence funds to depositors when needed so as to improve its reputation and win their trust. On

the other hand, NBK has a mean of cash reserves of 8.173 billion and a minimum cash reserve level

of 3.37 billion and a maximum of 16.97 billion. The variation of cash reserves is high as shown by the

standard deviation of 4.84 billion as shown in table 4.4 which translates to 59.22% which is slightly

lower than the percentage variation in Equity bank. Generally, it is observed that Equity bank

maintained higher levels of cash reserves as compared to NBK.

Correlation Matrix

Equity Bank.

Correlation Matrix of Dependent and Independent variables

ROA

ROE

NIM

Cash

Reserves

(billions)

ROA

1.000

ROE

0.361

1.000

NIM

0.797

0.527

1.000

Cash

Reserves

(billions)

-0.03

0.672

0.267

1.000

Source: Research Data (2017)

Table 4.27 presents correlations between dependent and independent variables. It is seen that Cash

reserves have a negative and insignificant relationship with ROA as shown by the correlation

coefficient of -0.03 which implies that banks which maintain high cash reserves as a liquidity risk

management variable risk a deterioration in return to the assets since the cash reserves do not

generate any return to the bank and thus holding more of them deprives the bank an opportunity to

invest the money elsewhere resulting to lower returns to Commercial Banks in Kenya because the

idle liquid assets are not generating income to offset the interest to be paid on the customers deposits

(Mwangi, 2014). The correlation coefficient is insignificant because normally the cash reserves held

form a small proportion to the total assets of a bank. There is a fairly strong and significant positive

correlation with ROE of 0.672. This suggests that concerns that maintain high levels of cash reserves

as a liquidity risk management practice result in a significant improvement in return to shareholders

wealth and equity. There is however a weak positive and not significant coefficient between cash

reserves and NIM (r = 0.267). This implies that as cash reserves increase, the NIM increases but at a

slower rate because an increase in these reserves deny the banks the opportunity to invest this

money on one hand but on the other hand, the reserves shield the bank during times of huge cash

withdrawals as they can go for them instead of selling the earning assets at a fire sale price to avail

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the cash to depositors money during withdrawals and therefore, holding adequate cash reserves

could assist to even out profits during bad economic times and this could maintain confidence of

shareholders and in some instances the reserves could be run down for use in redemption of shares

to avoid dilution in ownership, hence the positive significant correlation with ROE of the bank.

National Bank of Kenya

Correlation Matrix of Dependent and Independent variables

ROA

ROE

NIM

Cash

Reserv

ROA

1.000

ROE

0.975

1.000

NIM

0.740

0.677

1.000

Cash

Reserves

(billions)

-0.767

-0.756

-0.777

1.000

**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

Source: Research data (2017)

Table 4.28 presents correlations between dependent and independent variables.It is seen that Cash

reserves have a negative, strong and significant correlation coefficient with ROA, ROE and NIM as

indicated by correlation coefficients of -0.767, -0.756, and – 0.777 respectively. This concurs with

Punita & Somaiya (2006), who found that cash reserves significantly affected profitability of banks

negatively.This because cash reserves do not generate any return to the bank and thus holding more

of them deprives the bank an opportunity to invest the money elsewhere resulting to lower returns

to Commercial Banks in Kenya because the idle liquid assets are not generating income to offset the

interest to be paid on the customers deposits (Mwangi, 2014).

This result differ with equity bank which had a weak negative and insignificant correlation coefficient

of -0.03 between cash reserves and ROA, a fairly strong positive and significant correlation of 0.672

between cash reserves and ROE and a weak positive and insignificant correlation coefficient of 0.267

between cash reserves and NIM.

From the interview, respondents described their views on cash reserves, The Director Operations

gave an opinion as regards cash reserves and said that “the cash reserve have been fluctuating with

both increases and decreases and this depends on the level of cash available and cash needs of the

bank but generally, the trend in cash reserves for the past 10 years has been high”. This is an indication

that the bank had adequate cash levels.

The respondent pointed out that “holding more reserves improved liquidity risk management since

the excess reserves held shielded the bank from unforeseen shocks like massive cash withdrawals or

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in times of immense funding pressure as they can withdraw the excess reserves and meet their

commitments and thus avoid overnight borrowing which is highly expensive”. Therefore, the cash

reserves improved bank performance as they acted as a buffer and came handy when the bank

needed funding in a short time.

Summary of Findings

Pearson correlation matrix was obtained to determine the association between cash reserves and

performance; ROA, ROE and NIM. For Equity bank, Cash reserves were found to have a negative and

insignificant relationship with ROA r = -0.03, for ROE a fairly strong and significant positive correlation

with ROE at r = 0.672 and a weak positive correlation with NIM as shown by correlation coefficient of

0.267. For NBK, the cash reserves had a negative, strong and significant correlation coefficient with

ROA, ROE and NIM as indicated by correlation coefficients of -0.767 (p<0.01), -0.756 (p<0.05), and –

0.777(p=<0.01) respectively. Therefore, the study concluded that an increase in cash reserves is

detrimental to profitability as these huge reserves are non-income generating assets.

The study recommended that banks should minimize cash reserves and instead invest this money in

income generating investments that boosts financial performance. Instead of banks holding their

reserves in form of cash, they should hold them in form of near money assets which have a ready

market but have also stability in pricing and also adopt an appropriate cash management model that

minimizes the possibility of running out of cash. This can be achieved by proper forecasting of cash

needs based on past patterns on minimum and maximum cash levels by the bank.

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