caption: Delivering the Keynote Address Deputy Governor Dr. <PERSON> highlighting the demand for funding within the corporate sector, given the number of investment plans that had been given the green light since the end of the civil war and the need to facilitate a deeper corporate debt market to fulfil the additional funding needs faced by the Sri Lankan corporates. There is likely to be plenty of demand among insurance companies, provident funds and other institutional investors for higher yielding new financial instruments,'' he stressed. The Deputy Governor said local currency solutions would mitigate the risk and generate cheaper funding with a minimum currency risk, while providing guidance on funding. Therefore instruments such as, hedging, credit guarantees, local currency bonds issued in the international market would help investors to find new methods and ways to finance their funding needs, he added.