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Sri Lanka credit cards can be used for foreign personal purchases not business: CB

No new forex regulations on credit cards

August 21, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank net up 124-pct

Exchange gains, net interest income drive profits

August 14, 2021 1 min read

Fee income helps boost Sri Lanka’s Nations Trust Bank June profits

Steep rise in fee income

August 12, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank net up 52-pct in June quarter

Net interest income up on falling interest costs

August 12, 2021 1 min read
Sri Lanka approves five firms to run airport foreign exchange counters

Four banks and Thomas Cook given 3 year contract

Sri Lanka central bank extends deadline for updating depositor unique identification number

Unique identification numbers for depositors of licensed banks and licensed finance companies

Sri Lanka's NDB down 6.8-pct in June

Profits at Sri Lanka's National Development Bank fell 6.8 percent from a year earlier to Rs535 million in the June 2016 ...

August 12, 2016 2 min read

Hatton National Bank March profits up 41-pct

Profits at Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank group rose 41 percent from a year earlier to Rs3.3 billion in the June 2016 ...

August 11, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka to appoint experts to draw 'financial city' law

Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had given the go-ahead to appoint two experts to draw up a legal and business framework...

August 10, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka starts work on finance company bailout fund

Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had given the go ahead to start work on an asset management agency to bail out troubled...

August 10, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Hela Clothing gets IFC export finance facility

Hela Clothing (Pvt) Ltd, a Sri Lanka-based apparel exporter, will be given credit line against accounts receivable from ...

August 9, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank to sell 5 to 10-year bonds

Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank of Ceylon will sell up to 7.0 billion rupees of 5 and 10 year subordinated bonds, Fitch Rati...

August 4, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank to seek US$100mn from syndicated loans

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank will seek up to $100 million of 3-to-5 year funds this year to meet loan demand and supplement ...

August 4, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka bank credit falls in April, May

Sri Lanka's credit from the banking system fell to Rs29.3 billion in March and $44.6 billion in May, down from over Rs10...

August 2, 2016 1 min read

Euromoney names NDBIB ‘Sri Lanka’s Best Investment Bank 2016’

ECONOMYNEXT - NDB Investment Bank, which in 2015 raised Rs60 billion in debt and equity capital for its clients, has bee...

August 1, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Alliance Finance, Guardian Acuity offer equity, FD investment plan

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Alliance Finance PLC and Guardian Acuity Asset Management (GAAM) are offering a ...

August 1, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Seylan Bank June net flat

Profits at Sri Lanka's Seylan Bank group barely grew 1.04 percent to Rs1,062 million in the June 2016, from a year earli...

August 1, 2016 1 min read

Commercial Credit joins LankaPay common ATM network

ECONOMYNEXT - Commercial Credit & Finance PLC recently joined the LankaPay Common ATM Network linking over 95% of automa...

July 26, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka'S NDB aborts move to scrap independent chairman

Sri Lanka's NDB Bank Plc has rolled back an attempt to scrap its mandatory requirement for an independent non-executive ...

July 25, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka govt to lend Rs1bn to private plantations for mandated wage hike

The Sri Lankan government is to lend up to a Rs1 billion to private regional plantations companies through two state ban...

July 22, 2016 2 min read

IFC to guarantee export credit by Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank

Washington-based International Finance Corporation will provide full and partial export credit risk guarantees for custo...

July 21, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's bank credit slows in April

Sri Lanka's bank credit private business fell to 27.4 million rupees in April 2016 from 87.8 million rupees, the lowest ...

July 18, 2016 1 min read

Commercial Bank introduces Sri Lankan remittance card

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank said it had introduced a remittance card licensed by Visa Inc. enabling...

June 27, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka plans to fix finance companies; IMF to help

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka wants to set up a special purpose vehicle to fix troubled finance companies, with IMF standing b...

June 24, 2016 2 min read

ADB support for Sri Lanka small business venture capital fund

ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help Sri Lanka set up a venture capital fund for small and m...

June 9, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Central Bank spent Rs133mn under former governor on travel

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank said the cost of overseas travel and related work by present govern...

June 6, 2016 1 min read