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Lending rates urged to fall further
Banks operating within the Port City will be licensed by either the central bank or the country it is incorporated in.
He has previously functioned as chairman of the National Development Bank PLC
SME loan demand rose in the 4Q 2025 and corporate loan demand is expected to rise further in 2025 2Q
Some bank paid more taxes than the residual left for shareholders and for capital
Sri Lanka's Union Bank of Colombo has been given the go ahead to cease being a primary dealer for government bonds, the...
Moody's Investors Services has downgrade Bank of Ceylon's rating to 'b3' from 'b2' and placed the bank along with Hatton...
Sri Lanka has lowered the requirements for finance and leasing companies to tie up capital in liquid assets and is also...
Sri Lanka has gazette new foreign regulations covering foreign exchange deposits of up to 12 months in domestic banks a...
Sri Lanka will give an incentive package to anyone who repatriates dollars held abroad to the island in the next three m...
Risks to Sri Lanka's banks will persist despite recent Coronavirus driven regulatory easing announced by the central ban...
Sri Lanka's Finance and Leasing Companies (FLCs) which had seen a spike in bad loans would be further pressured by Coron...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it relaxing loan loss provisions, capital enhancement deadlines and would also allow banks...
Sri Lanka will provide central bank re-finance up to 50 billion rupees for businesses hit by Coronavirus through a re-f...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya has made Central Bank of Sri Lanka, commercial banks, insurances services and the Treasur...
| 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 HSBC, the largest foreign banks said it is giving relief to credit card customers, personal and wholesale cr...
Sri Lanka's central bank has issued directions for commercial banks to give a six month debt moratorium to for lease re...
Sri Lanka's state-run People's Bank said it is funding the country's energy utilities and key state enterprises, giving ...
Commercial Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka's largest private lender is ready to support borrowers whose cashflows would be h...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has asked commercial banks to be open at least two hours when curfew is lifted in m...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered banks to suspend collecting loans for six months and provide working ca...
Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor W. D. Lakshman called on financial institutions to not speculate and cause panic in th...
Sri Lanka is promoting low cost quick response (QR) code based technology with slashed fees to draw a wider base of smal...
Sri Lanka has extended a debt moratorium introduced at the request of the current administration first given by banks to...
Profits and capital of Sri Lanka's Finance and Leasing Companies (FLCs) would be dented when tighter rules on bad loan p...
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