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We are an outlier in the region also. So we have to fix at some point. The question is should we fix it now?
Hotels, transport and arts and entertainment sectors had bad loans of 30 to 20 percent
Pending possible recapitalization for losses from state enterprise funding, while confirming a long-term rating at 'CC'
NPLs of pawning loans are lower than others, but the number has risen
By February most of the excess liquidity came from dollar purchases
State Mortgage and Investment Bank is a licensed specialised bank fully owned by the government of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is in the process of revising criteria to designate systemically important banks, and not all banks that exce...
Sri Lanka's central bank has warned the public to be vigilant of online scams usually done through offers of easy loan s...
Net profits at Sri Lanka's largest listed lender Commercial Bank for the September quarter grew 21.8 percent from a year...
Profits of Sri Lanka's DFCC Bank group grew 76 percent to 835 million rupees in the September 2019 quarter from a year e...
Profits at Sri Lanka’s National Development Bank (NDB) were almost flat at 1.1 billion rupees in the September 2019 qu...
The ratings of finance and leasing companies will face downward pressure amid a slowing economy and rising bad loans, Fi...
Sri Lanka's private credit grew 53.7 billion rupees in September 2019, with the central bank printing 23.9 billion rupee...
Net profits at Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank for the September quarter fell 0.7 percent to 2.6 billion rupees with taxes eati...
HSBC is offering a web-based supply chain finance platform initially targeting Sri Lanka apparel exporters that the ban...
Net profits at Sri Lanka's Pan Asia Banking Corporation (PABC) for the September quarter grew 4 percent from a year earl...
| 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 Seylan Bank's net profits grew by a marginal 0.53 percent to 1.04 billion rupees in the September quarter wi...
Moody's Investors Service has confirmed the at B2/NP ratings of three Sri Lankan banks, Bank of Ceylon (BOC), Hatton Nat...
Sri Lanka will be publishing the results of a financial inclusion survey to understand how businesses access funds, Cent...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Peoples' Pleasing and Finance group, the country's largest non-bank lender which also has an ins...
Sri Lanka's central bank said it had decided to cancel the license of The Finance Company with effect from 23rd October ...
Sri Lanka has The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a a global anti-money laundering body has taken the island off its...
The outlook on the top [SL]AAA rated state-run Bank of Ceylon has been cut to negative from stable by ICRA Lanka, a rati...
Dutch government to cover 25-pct of the cost from a grant.
Proparco, a unit of French aid agency Agence Française de Développement (AFD), is providing 25 million US dollars to ...
Sri Lankan banks should help spur development, supporting fina cial literacy and designing suitable lending schemes for ...
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