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Sri Lanka has extended a debt moratorium given to customers of banks and finance companies from October 01, 2020 to Marc...
Sri Lanka's private credit grew by 87.4 billion rupees in September 2020, expanding for the second month in a row, short...
Sri Lanka has extended the grace period of Covid-19 relief loans given at 4 percent to 9 months from the date of grantin...
Sri Lanka banks have been given more discretion in assessing firms ability to repay loans which had already been re-stru...
Six payment networks integrated
ECONOMYNEXT – Assets of directors of ETI Finance Ltd. (ETIF) are being sold to repay depositors, with 20 percent ...
Sri Lanka's Central Bank has set interest ceilings for bank deposits for the quarter ending June 30, on a base rates for...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's listed private banks have reduced deposit rates after the Central Bank directed banks and fina...
Washington-based International Finance Corporation said it is planning to syndicate a 50 million US dollar loan for Sri ...
Sri Lanka's private credit barely grew in February 2019, though no longer contracting like in January 2019, while new cr...
Sri Lanka's Central Bank has launched a Sustainable Finance Roadmap with support from the International Finance Corporat...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s unregulated financial institutions thrive on the financial ignorance of the peop...
Sri Lanka's central bank is offering breathing space for small and medium sized banks and non-bank finance companies to ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Real-time digital transactions on Sri Lanka’s common electronic fund transfer system more th...
Sri Lanka will bring a credit regulation law to protect consumers from micro loans given by loan sharks, Finance Ministe...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 371.7127 | 371.6601 |
| UK Pound | 453.5962 | 453.9794 |
| Euro | 396.3156 | 396.4763 |
| Aus Dollar | 250.1862 | 251.1981 |
| Yen | 2.8251 | 2.7549 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 4.3961 | 4.3963 |
| Korea Won | 0.2820 | 0.2791 |
| Oman Rial | 943.2237 | 943.2268 |
| Saudi Riyal | 96.7270 | 96.7115 |
| UAE Dirham | 98.8729 | 98.8786 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,653.84 | -1.51% |
| CSE All Share | 8,420.26 | -1.04% |
| Turnover Rs million | 4,621,153,484 | 2,824,714,520 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 31.03 | 31.03 |
| 6-m bill | 29.57 | 29.60 |
| 12-m bill | 28.41 | 28.41 |
| 5-yr bond | 27.49 | 27.57 |
| 8-yr bond | 27.44 | 27.23 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
ECONOMYNEXT – Fitch Ratings Lanka said it has confirmed Citibank N.A. – Colombo Branch's national long-ter...
Sri Lanka's credit to private borrowers from commercial banks turned negative in January 2019 for the first time since 2...
Loans under Enterprise Sri Lanka subsidized credit has totaled 79 billion rupees to 46,673 recipients since the program ...
Sri Lanka's listed Sanasa Development Bank reported a loss of 26.1 million rupees in the December 2018 quarter, down 113...
Sri Lanka's Sanasa Development Bank Plc, a publicly traded firm linked to the co-operative movement, said it planned to ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Sri Lanka's state-owned People's Bank grew 3.5 percent from a year earlier to 20 billion rupees...
ECONOMYNEXT – Forthcoming elections could help boost lending by Sri Lankan banks if it leads to higher government...
Sri Lanka has awarded three-year franchises to operate foreign currency exchange couners at the main airport in the coun...
ECONOMYNEXT – Mastercard said it was offering Sri Lankan cardholders a range of discounts at top hospitals in Asi...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan banks have seen a surge in provisioning for bad loans with the adoption of a new accounting ru...
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