摘要：The main objective of the study was to determine the influence of interest rate risk on performance of commercial Banks. Despite the banking sector stability and resilience in 2015, two non -systemic banks, were placed in receivership by the Central Bank of Kenya this was attributed to liquidity risk and failure to owner debt, lack of adequate provision for non-performing loans. Secondary data from the banks website and from the central bank of Kenya were used in the study. The population were the 44 commercial banks in Kenya of which 2 were under receivership and one under statutory management. Panel data for 30 commercial banks that had data for 10 year period from 2006 to 2015 were used. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were used, for reg ression random and fixed effects were applied using E-views software. The findings were interest income to total loans had a significant positive relationship with performance
