In sum, our results strongly support the view that banks should steer away from short-term funding to improve the quality of their assets and to reduce their riskiness. The findings of this study show that capital buffers and size generally helps to curb banks’ risk-taking behaviour in response to decreased funding liquidity risk. Banks are also less aggressive during financial crises when they are more actively monitored and disciplined for risk taking. Our study provides a clear understanding of the link between funding liquidity risk as captured by deposit ratios and bank risk- taking behaviour which may help regulators to redesign the banking regulatory framework to better discipline and control the perverse incentives of bank managers to take too much risk in the future when bank deposits change. Specifically examining the effect of funding liquidity risk on bank managers’ compensation packages would be a worthwhile direction for future research on this topic.