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Strengthening the Deposit Insurance Scheme will help protect the savings of smaller depositors
Although there are about 11,000 microfinance institutions operating in the country, only 5 of them have been registered
With the latest expansion, SBI will have seven branches in Sri Lanka
Bank increases provisions for ISBs
Relief measures include rescheduling credit facilities, extending time to start repayments, waving unpaid interest,
The bank will continue to serve clients as usual during the transition period, which was expected to take 15-18 months. ...
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 ...
| 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's private credit expanded by 22.2 billion rupees in August 2019, and credit to government had expanded 47.9 b...
Fitch Ratings has confirmed an 'AAA(lka)' given to Sri Lanka's Citibank branch, which has zero bad loans from 2009.
Fitch Ratings has confirmed an 'AAA(lka)' rating with a stable outlook given to the Sri Lanka branch of Standard Charter...
Fitch Ratings has confirmed an 'A+(lka)' rating of Serendib Finance Limited, a finance company controlled by 'AA(lka) ra...
Sri Lanka's central bank disputed an analysis by Moody's Investor Service, a rating agency which said price controls sla...
Sri Lanka's price controls on lending rates, which comes in the wake of a currency collapse and a spike in bad loans, wi...
Sri Lanka has lifted price controls on depositors to expropriate small depositors, in the wake of a currency collapse in...
Sri Lanka's central bank has slapped price controls on commercial banks loans, as credit contracted and bad loans soared...
Sri Lankan banks supporting biodiversity conservation efforts refused to lend money for a mini-hydro power plant after t...
Sinhaputhra Finance Plc, non-bank lender in Sri Lanka has been given time to raise capital, the central bank said.
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