Nuryani's research (2022) conveys the results
that the higher the cost of funds and the amount of
credit disbursed, the lower the return on assets. Vice
versa, the lower the cost of funds and the amount of
credit disbursed, the lower the return on assets.
Yuliana's research, Dwi Ari Pertiwi (2020) said that
the loan interest rate variable had a significant
positive effect on the profitability variable. While
the variable number of customers has a significant
negative effect on the profitability variable. In
relation to the G20, the research results of Ratna
Kartika Dewi (2014) stated that in overcoming the
US and European Union financial crises, developed
countries were highly committed to priority agendas,
while developing countries did not show high
compliance like developed countries.
1.1 Cost of Funds and Credit
The definition presented by the Financial Services
Authority (OJK), the cost of funds is a certain
number of costs that must be incurred by banks or
financial institutions, because they have used money
sourced from other parties, such as customers or
banks. The factors that affect the cost of funds are
the interest rate paid, the composition of the
portfolio of sources of funds, provisions regarding
the reserve requirement, service costs to obtain
funds (service cost), interest tax and years of
efficiency.
There are many definitions of the cost of funds,
among them according to Rivai (2007:669) is the
interest paid by the bank on the funds successfully
collected by the bank from various sources. Fees that
must be paid by a financial institution or bank for
the use of money that comes from other parties
(customers and or banks). The cost of funds in a
bank is the basis for determining loan interest rates
after calculating the expected profit including
administrative costs and other costs (cost of funds).
The cost of bank funds is a cost that must be paid by
the bank for each fund that has been successfully
collected from various sources, before being
deducted by the minimum mandatory liquidity
(requrement) that the bank must always maintain. In
contrast to the opinion of Taswan (2010: 188), the
cost of funds is a direct cost incurred to obtain every
rupiah, the funds raised include non-operational
funds (unloanable funds), such as reserve
requirements to meet Bank Indonesia regulations.
The effect of the cost of funds for loans that have an
inverse correlation also becomes parallel because the
higher the cost of funds and the amount of credit
disbursed, the lower the return on assets. Vice versa,
the lower the cost of funds and the amount of credit
disbursed, the lower the return on assets.
The cost of funds became the initial trigger factor
for the movement of credit performance which was
monitored from several aspects, both in terms of
credit quality, list of non-performing loans, as well
as ratios to measure the health of banks. Sources of
bank funds that are lent to the public in the form of
credit are not from the bank's own funds because
bank capital is also limited, but are public funds
stored in banks. Banks try to compete to attract
funds to collect public funds so that they are willing
to save their funds with various lotteries or attractive
facilities. Maintaining customer trust is the bank's
obligation because customer deposits are a source of
profit, customer is a king. The role of the Asset
Liquidity Committee (ALCO) team is very
important in managing and anticipating liquidity
between funds lent in the form of credit and funds
originating from the public (Sutarno 2004:3).
Regarding third party funds, Veitzal Rivai
(2007:413) defines funds as funds obtained from the
community, in the sense of the community as
individuals, companies, governments, households,
cooperatives, foundations and others both in rupiah
and foreign currencies. foreign. According to
Muljono (2006:153), third party funds are funds
collected from the community will be used for
funding the real sector through lending. These third
party funds are collected by the bank through a
variety of fund products offered to the general
public, who put their trust in the bank concerned to
save their money and then withdraw it at maturity in
return for interest and capital gains from the bank.
Loans granted due to expensive sources of funds
affect the amount of interest charged to customers.
For commercial banks, of course, before channeling
public funds, they must have sufficient sources of
funds in their operations so that credit can be given
properly in order to obtain the expected income.
Retnadi (2006:105) states, the ability to channel
credit for the bank is strongly influenced by the
ability of the bank to collect public funds (Third
Party Funds) to the fullest. Funds collected from the
public (Third Party Funds) are the largest and most
reliable source of funds by banks (Dendawijaya,
2005). The bank's activity after collecting funds
from the wider community is to redistribute these
funds to people who need them, in the form of loans
or better known as credit. So that from the
distribution of credit, the bank will get a profit
which is income for the bank. This is also in
accordance with the theory put forward by Kasmir
(2011: 43) which suggests that funds from the public