“…However, for the west Asian countries, it shows that there is a significant development gap between poor and industrialized nations while comparing in terms of financial stability (Svirydzenka, 2016;Them, 2009). Furthermore, during the post-crisis period, literature shows that a rigorous improvement specially in the financial stability is crucially needed for the west Asian countries (Audi, Kassem, & Roussel, 2021). This is because Asian banks perform much better than banks in other regions of the world, according to Vinayak, Lee, Rajendran and Sengupta (2016), and hence have a considerable influence on global banking stability and performance (Vinayak et al, 2016).…”