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Banks will have to limit exposures to 25 percent starting from January 2026
Rupee appreciation leads to parity changes in dollar credit
Reforms identified by a committee made up of IMF, World Bank and Central Bank officials
A budget for 2024 set aside 1.5-pct of GDP in allocations for possible bank recapitalization
NGCIL guarantees can be used to give loans without collateral
There are more than one avenue and this is one of them to access to credit without collateral
Washington-based International Finance Corporation, a unit of World Bank said it had approved a 50 million US dollar cr...
Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank of Ceylon said it would provide a total of 10 billion rupees in loans to Coronavirus hit sma...
A meeting of Central Bank and Treasury officials have been called to look for ways to provide more relief to depositors ...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it had cancelled the operating license of The Finance Company Plc, a non-bank lender of th...
Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank, which controls an insurer, said profits grew 57 percent to 3.0 billion rupees in the M...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Nations Trust Bank grew 24 percent to 959 million rupees in the March 2020 quarter from a year ea...
Sri Lanka's central bank credit (printed money) broke records in March 2020 sending helping private and state credit soa...
Profits at Commercial Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka's largest private bank by assets grew 20 percent to 3.76 billion rupees ...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has asked banks to give concessionary credit to identified sectors, his office ...
Sri Lanka has eased liquid asset rules for banks until June 30, 2021 as the island battles a Coronvirus crisis, allowing...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.5018 | 332.3603 |
| UK Pound | 440.0661 | 440.9424 |
| Euro | 367.7137 | 368.4879 |
| Yen | 2.0793 | 2.0805 |
| Aus Dollar | 226.4670 | 227.4342 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5357 | 3.5474 |
| Korean Won | 0.2494 | 0.2492 |
| Oman Rial | 863.5962 | 863.2287 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5939 | 88.5586 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.5259 | 90.4874 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,293.72 | -1.13% |
| CSE All Share | 22,024.18 | -0.60% |
| Turnover Rs | 3232.70 million | 2975.05 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's central bank has halted banks from declaring dividends and foreign banks from repatriating profits under new...
Sri Lanka has been removed from a list of high risk countries for money laundering and terror financing from May 07, the...
Sri Lanka's banks which have borrowed abroad could face greater pressure from foreign lenders amid credit downgrades, a ...
Sri Lanka's gross domestic product is expected to contract by one percent in 2020 and the operating environment for bank...
Fitch Ratings has downgraded state-run Bank of Ceylon's rating to 'B-' from 'B', with a outlook after a sovereign rating...
Sri Lanka has extended a deadline for Coronavirus credit relief for Coronavirus affected businesses from a central bank ...
Colombo-based Advocata Institute is hosting a live seminar on the impact of the banking sector from Covid-19.
Sri Lanka's state-run People's Bank will give up to 3.0 million rupees for agriculture and set up 200 cluster villages, ...
Standard Chartered Sri Lanka said it is giving credit relief to its customers under a regulatory directive and also wai...
Sri Lanka's banking system will be under pressure from weakening businesses, which are hit by Coronavirus and the govern...
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