THE ROLE OF CAPITAL MARKET ON THE COMMERCIAL BANK GROWTH IN RWANDA A CASE OF BANK OF KIGALI PLC (2015-2022)

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CELESTIN NTAMUTURANO
SIMON CHARLES MUHIRE, PhD

Abstract

This research, titled the role of capital market on the growth of commercial banks in Rwanda, and BK Plc was selected as the case study. The research was guided by the following specific objectives, to determine the capital market services used by Bank of Kigali Plc, to analyze the level of growth of Bank of Kigali Plc during the period of 2016-2022 and to analyze the relationship between capital market and the growth of Bank of Kigali Plc. The study used both descriptive and correlational research design. In this respect, a descriptive design was used to describe the views of respondents on variables of the study and this was done using the questionnaires to collect primary data. The researcher also used correlational research design to measure the relationship between variables of study by using correlational analysis. The researcher selected all 36 employees from departments targeted by this research namely; corporate investment, finance, quality assurance and risk management. In this study, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used by researcher in processing and analysis of data which informed the presentation of findings, analysis and interpretation. The results indicated that the adjusted R2 is 0.540 representing 54.0% indicating that capital market components contribute to the BK growth, while 0.475 representing 47.5% of BK Plc comes from other variables that were not included in the model one.

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CELESTIN NTAMUTURANO, University of Lay Adventist of Kigali

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SIMON CHARLES MUHIRE, PhD, University of Lay Adventist of Kigali

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