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Licenses to be cancelled
I was told my entire salary would be converted against my wishes
Forex reserves are now about one month of imports
Agreement that an outright default is damaging
Net interventions reduce in February 2022, though goods shortages worsen
Central bankers cannot solve economic problems and large liquidity injections will lead to devaluations, though most eme...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it will guarantee loans given by banks for Coroanvirus affected businesses, from their ow...
Sri Lanka will turn billions of rupees worth contractors bills due from government into money at 4 percent, by re-financ...
Sri Lanka's central bank says 38,000 more depositors will be paid out of deposit insurance fund from July 02.
Sri Lanka's central bank had injected 459 billion rupees in to banking system from late February to avoid selling govern...
Sri Lanka's central bank has listed measures taken to ease cash pressure on the banking system during the Coronavirus cr...
Sri Lanka's Constitutional Council had confirmed Ranee Jayamaha, a former Deputy Governor and Samantha Kumarasinghe, a b...
Sri Lanka's cabinet had given approval to extend exchange and import controls for another six months from June 02, to ke...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it had approved 28 billion rupees of subsidized credit to be issued from commercial banks ...
Sri Lanka’s hundreds of thousands of Senior Citizens who have invested their lives’ savings in Fixed Deposits and ar...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 367.1686 | 367.3982 |
| UK Pound | 452.6187 | 451.8938 |
| Euro | 388.4167 | 389.8979 |
| Aus Dollar | 255.6136 | 255.4851 |
| Yen | 2.7395 | 2.7267 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 4.6108 | 4.6159 |
| Korea Won | 0.2772 | 0.2772 |
| Oman Rial | 935.8320 | 937.3904 |
| Saudi Riyal | 96.0211 | 96.1836 |
| UAE Dirham | 98.0915 | 98.2549 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,470.19 | 1.59% |
| CSE All Share | 7,651.19 | 1.26% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,245,549,656 | 1,102,192,667 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 21.20 | 21.45 |
| 6-m bill | 21.88 | 22.16 |
| 12-m bill | 22.51 | 22.77 |
| 5-yr bond | 20.38 | 20.79 |
| 8-yr bond | 20.46 | 20.49 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 14.50 | 14.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 14.50 | 14.50 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's excess liquidity in money markets soared to a historic high of 223 billion rupees after the statutory reserv...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it will issue more new money to banks at 1.0 percent to give loans under credit schemes wh...
Sri Lanka has cut the statutory reserve ratio (SRR) reducing the share of deposits that banks have keep in the central b...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has slammed central bank over not issuing 150 billion rupees of new money for b...
A Colombo Magistrate has issued warrants for the arrest of the Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments Finance Ltd., ...
Sri Lanka's private credit has tumbled in April 2020 to 13.4 billion rupees from a spike to 120 billion rupees in March ...
Sri Lanka's forex reserves dropped 686 million US dollars to 6,493 million US dollars in May 2020 from a month earlier,...
Sri Lanka's central bank has not yet tripled a re-finance (printed money) facility to 150 billion rupees (about 800 mill...
Sri Lanka's apparel exporters are facing difficulties in obtaining essential items for manufacturing due to import contr...
Sri Lanka's banking system is strong despite a rise in bad loans and the central bank will use all tools to maintain fin...
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