41.   The bank benefited from increases in mortgage financing and its credit card business.

42.   The bank benefited from the improvement in overseas stock markets Monday.

43.   The North Carolina-based bank benefited from higher fee and interest income, and slower growth in its overhead costs.

44.   The retail bank should benefit from an expected decline in interest rates next year.

45.   Which banks benefit the most is hard to say since most large banks are stakeholders in both MasterCard and Visa.

46.   The banks also will benefit from restrictions on foreign banks in the domestic retail market, it added.

47.   The bank also benefited from lower provisions against possible loan losses.

48.   The bank would benefit from any boost to the economy if customers, attracted by the new rates, began to expand their business activities.

49.   Azzam said Saudi banks had largely benefited from the growth in the private sector and increased government borrowing due to low oil prices.

50.   Chan said banks benefited from flight to quality and safety.