Indicators to Assess Financial Security of the Banks

Abstract

Ensuring liquidity and sustainability of commercial banks enables to satisfy the needs for loans extended to individuals and legal entities, as well as to provide continuity of the payments in the economy. In turn, banking liquidity and ensuring solvency are considered to be a crucial precondition for ensuring their financial security. As far as we know in the world practice there is no single approach to the financial security of banks and the system of assessment indicators. Statistic data used in various countries required to the calculation of assessment indicators vary in different countries. This, in turn, does enable to entirely assess the financial security of banks. Methodology of the study was based on modern foreign scientist`s research works. In the article was used indicators coefficients and the data provided from the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In this regard this article is devoted to the research of scientific-theoretical aspect of financial security. In addition, the article specifies the indicators used to assess financial security of commercial banks. The research has been conducted on the case-study of joint-stock commercial bank “Asaka” operating in our republic. Moreover, the article presents assessment of the financial security of “Asaka” JSCB, as well as determines the problems associated with ensuring financial security. In addition, the article contains scientific proposals aimed at eliminating the problems specified above. In terms of the method available, the indicators used for assessing financial security are fit for the enterprises, however, such indicators haven’t been developed for banks. In the method proposed in this article, the indicators used for assessing financial security have been structured in terms of the peculiarities of commercial banks operating in the republic.