21.   These custom-made hedging products can increase yields and lower funding costs on bonds and loans at just a fraction of the cost of buying the actual securities.

22.   A recent rise in interest rates has weighed on share prices by raising corporate funding costs and hurting company earnings.

23.   Aside from a rise in funding costs, borrowings by banks from foreign exchange markets to fund loan growth and large projects expose them to currency risks.

24.   Banks calculate their individual BLR according to a formula which takesinto account their funding costs, administrative costs and a profitmargin.

25.   Finance firms, already saddled with higher funding costs than commercial banks and still offering second-tier lending, will not be able to carry on.

26.   Funding costs are expected to be reduced as finance companies operate under a better name.

27.   He did not provide approximate funding costs for the handling of the auction.

28.   It may increase the EPS of Putera, depending on the purchase price of the shares and the effective funding cost.

29.   Market interest rates largely stopped falling during the most recent half, so banks stopped benefiting from decreasing funding costs.

30.   Privatisation will also produce lower operating costs and cheaper and more stable funding costs with Manhattan Card as a fully-owned subsidiary, the company says.