Investigating Bank Capital on Firm Rating Analysis

Abstract

This paper examined the correlation between firm ratings of banks and financial risks assessment of PEFINDO using profitability, asset quality, and liquidity as independent variables. This paper also investigated the impact of bank capital as controlling variable on bank ratings. The data which have been observed are financial reports from publicly-held banks in Indonesia and firm rating analysis released by PEFINDO during 2017-2021 consecutively, then was analyzed with regression model. This paper finds that profitability, asset quality and liquidity have no correlation with bank ratings without the existence of bank capital. As bank capital are taken into account, the correlation analysis had a significant difference and bank capital becomes determining factor in bank rating analysis.

Keywords

• firm rating
• bank capital
• profitability
• asset quality
• liquidity