为什么不能理解为价格呢？ “由于financial institutions 提高data-processing operations 服务的价格，给很多小company创造了机会，低价单独提供此项服务”，句意也很通顺。 rising在此处应该是现在分词做定语，表示所修饰名词的动作。希望NN出来指正 参见rise在朗文的解释，其中有rising的例子： rising crime/unemployment/inflation etc
The country now faces economic recession and rising unemployment. The police seem unable to cope with the rising tide of (=large increase in) car crime.
大全中也有很多例子 （987-24) A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance. (A) had elected early retirement rather than face (B) had elected early retirement instead of facing (C) have elected retiring early instead of facing (D) have elected to retire early rather than facing（E） (E) have elected to retire early rather than face 140. As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are especially hard-hit, and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and
rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures. (A) and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and (B) since these families can no longer afford to buy homes, furthermore (C) for these families can no longer afford to buy homes, yet (D) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes; however,（C） (E) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes, for | 
