“…IT components are part of a multitude of factors that affect banks returns to control for other factors and for a more comprehensive and theoretically robust model to examine the relationship amongst IT and bank profitability bank size represented by total assets has been added as a control variable. Bank size has been used as a control variable in existing literature by several authors (Karimzadeh et al, 2014;Safari & Yu, 2014;Ou, Yen & Hung, 2009). Therefore, the following two models are estimated empirically to measure the impact of IT on commercial banks profitability; ROA i,t = β0 + β1ROAi,t-1+ β2LNBS i,t + β3LATM i,t + β4LNTA i ,t + μi,t…..……model 1 ROE i,t = β0 + β1ROEi,t-1 + β2LNBS i,t + β3LATM i,t + β4LNTA i,t + μ i,t….... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To correct for potential endogeneity bias, relevant lagged dependent variables have been added in both the models, whereas independent variables natural logarithm has been taken to correct for heteroscedasticity.…”