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Removing parate execution powers and making it less easy to recover loans, will make it difficult for SMEs to get loans
Framework to be developed to strengthen governance of state banks, requiring their Boards to have independent members
The Banking (Amendment) Bill is expected to be passed in Parliament in early 2024
Investors who have applied up to 20,000,000 Type A Debentures will be allotted 100% of debentures applied
Reserves for state banks needed over restructured SOE loans
Excess liquidity coming back to market after festival drawdown
Singapore is opening up its banking industry to digital lenders in a reform that could shake up the sector across Southe...
Sri Lanka's distressed small and medium enterprises with get interest write-offs and new working capital guaranteed by t...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it was developing a cost based benchmark interest rate to price loans, hoping unusually th...
Sri Lanka's Dialog Finance Plc said that it could not invest the money raised in two rights issues in the planned fintec...
Sri Lanka will scrap the specialized banking license in 2021 under a new law, converting all banks to a commercial licen...
Sri Lanka's new Central Bank Governor W D Lakshman said banks should drop a 'risk averse' mindset and finance startups a...
Sri Lanka's LOLC Holdings said it has signed two agreements to sell its Cambodian sub-subsidiary Prasac to Korea's Kookm...
Sri Lanka's private credit will expand 12-13 percent in 2020, helped by lower interest rates, Central Bank Governor W D ...
Sri Lanka will enact a new Banking Act in 2021, which will include the merging of banking licenses and regulation of ban...
Sri Lanka will provide debt relief to small and medium enterprises from next week, Treasury Secretary S R Attygalle has ...
| 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 |
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Sri Lanka Cargills Bank, Sampath Bank and DFCC Bank said they had met the price ceiling on loans set by the central bank...
Bad loans in Sri Lanka's banks grew to 4.9 percent of assets in the September quarter from 4.8 percent in June, while th...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it will punish eight banks for not meeting price ceiling set for loans, invoking sweeping...
India's Axis Bank and ICICI Bank, both privately owned commercial banks, will exit Sri Lanka, the island's banking regul...
Relief given by banks to performing customers under a government debt moratorium offered for loans up to 300 million wil...
Sri Lanka's private credit grew 47.1 billion rupees in November, the fourth month of positive credit, while government b...
Sri Lanka's loan moratorium on small and medium-scale (SME) business loans will only be extended on request to those in ...
Sri Lanka has designated four banks as domestically systemically important banks (D-SIB) under new criteria down from an...
Sri Lanka's borrowers who are using a debt moratorium of up to 300 million rupees should continue to pay interest which ...
Sri Lankas Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered banks in the country to stop recovery of loans up to 300 million...
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