The Effect of Internal Financial Crisis on the Performance of Banks and Non-Operating Activities

The financial distress of banks is a serious problem in economic environment of the country.  Personal expenses and social costs of financial crisis leads to survey studies in the impact of financial crisis on commercial firms' performance. This research examines the effect of the financial crisis on banks' performance based on the CAMEL model during 2009-2015, to respond the question of whether financial crises had any effect on banks performance. By approving this, did banks turned to non-operational activities to improve their performance and getting out of the financial crisis? The research sample is 9 selected commercial banks, which fulfil the research conditions. The financial crisis of bank measure as follow: three consecutive years of losses (operating loss, net loss or retained), reduction in distributed dividends of each year relative to the last year by more than 40 percent and included article 141 of the commercial law for every company. Research results by multivariate regression model indicated that, at the 95% confidence, the financial crisis have a negative and significant effect on profitability and other performance indicators reveal no significant relationship. Also, the sixth hypothesis test of the research showed that banks will not go through non-operating activities as the financial crisis increases.