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Sri Lanka's NDB gets US$75mn from US for women oriented lending

Credit line from United States International Development Finance Corporation

July 6, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka government bank overdraft soars to Rs620bn

By July window borrowings were also up

July 6, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka has imposed rules on banks buying sovereign bonds to manage risks: Central Bank

Limits on dollar borrowings

July 6, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Fitch rated banks fare better than expected, bad loans 9.1-pct

Expects bad loans to rise to 10.5 percent by year end

July 5, 2021 3 min read
Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank Rs10bn to sell up to 10-year 13.5-pct debt

The Bank will initially issue 100 million debentures at 100 rupees each, to raise 10 billion.

Sri Lanka mulling development bank to give low interest credit: President

"This new bank aims to maintain low interest rates."

Sri Lanka Com Bank March quarter net up 29-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank said group net profit for the March 2016 quarter grew 28.7 perce...

May 11, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank March net up 73-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank group, which also has an insurance unit, rose 73 percent to Rs...

May 10, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka LB Finance March net up 93-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s LB Finance said March 2016 quarter net profit rose 93 percent to Rs1.2 billion f...

May 9, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank March net up 17-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Sampath Bank group’s net profit for the March 2016 quarter rose 17 percen...

May 9, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka busts ATM scam in Colombo, two Chinese nationals arrested

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka has busted an international racket where Chinese nationals were skimming data off automated telle...

May 3, 2016 1 min read

Commercial Bank Sri Lanka and Bank Muscat Oman in instant money transfer deal

ECONOMYNEXT –Commercial Bank said it recently formalised its tie-up with the Bank Muscat Oman to facilitate remit...

May 3, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Seylan Bank March 2016 net almost flat

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Seylan Bank group March 2016 net profit was virtually flat at 674 million rupees...

April 28, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's People's Leasing group net up 2.1-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Sri Lanka's People's Leasing and Finance, rose 2.1 percent to 1.15 billion rupees in the March ...

April 28, 2016 2 min read

Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software, warning to be issued

(Reuters) - The attackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the ...

April 25, 2016 5 min read

Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall-police

DHAKA, April 21 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and u...

April 22, 2016 3 min read
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Bangladesh says has identified 20 foreign suspects in cyber theft

DHAKA, April 18 (Reuters) - Bangladeshi investigators have identified 20 foreigners - 12 Philippine nationals and eight ...

April 19, 2016 2 min read

Bangladesh team in Sri Lanka to probe central bank heist

ECONOMYNEXT - A team from Bangladesh has come to Sri to gather information on 20 million dollars of stolen money transfe...

April 13, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka bank borrowings dominated by CB credit in January

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's state borrowings from the central bank rose to a record 106.6 billion rupees in January 2016, ...

April 6, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank expects to top 20-pct loan growth in 2016

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank Plc expects to top 20 percent loan growth with debt sales and foreign loans suppl...

April 4, 2016 3 min read

Sri Lanka finance companies at risk from soaring micro-credt: Fitch

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's non-bank lenders or finance companies are at risk from micro-finance which has soared from 4 p...

April 1, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lankan in Bangladesh cyber heist says she was set up by friend

(Reuters) - When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of $20 million in her acc...

Shihar Aneez
April 1, 2016 5 min read

ADB pioneers auctions of SME re-finance funds with Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - The Asian Development Bank is staring its first auction of a 12.5 million dollar tranche of re-finance fun...

March 28, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka retailer expand solar powered outlets with IFC finance

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Richard Pieris Distributors will get 15 million US dollars to expand its retail chain, with so...

March 22, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Cargills Bank losses widen, adds branches

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Cargills Bank group made a loss of 78 million rupees in the December 2015 quarte...

March 14, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka to tighten oversight on small-lenders but not eliminate them: CB Governor

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is looking to tighten oversight and governance of small lenders and not eliminate them through c...

March 14, 2016 3 min read