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On Friday 30 we will meet again together to resolve outstanding issues
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Complacency that capital and liquidity measures currently exceed regulatory minimum criteria is a false comfort
Enables mobile QR based payments in Sri Lanka and Nepal
Divestment of its 50% stake in Acuity Partners is unlikely to result in a material improvement in its regulatory capital
Out of the 789 billion rupees of annual private credit, 583 billion rupees came in the last five month of the year.
ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's small and mid-sized banks (SMBs) are facing higher pressure due to thin capital buffers and hig...
Bad loans at Sri Lanka's banks had risen 64 percent in the first quarter of 2019, the worst since 2013 when gold-backed ...
Sri Lanka has started a national payment card which will settle domestic and international transaction partnering with J...
ICRA Lanka Limited has given a rating of [SL] AAA with a stable outlook to state-run National Savings Bank backed by gov...
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Manila-based Asian Development Bank said it loan 50 million dollars to state-run Regional Development Bank in Sri Lanka ...
Bad loans in Sri Lanka's listed banks have surged in the first quarter of 2019, as the credit system emerged from moneta...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Sanasa Development Bank (SDB) has bought the UPay mobile payment platform for 20...
Sri Lanka's average prime lending rate has dropped 38 basis points in the week to June 07, the central bank data showed,...
Sri Lanka's central bank may consider further steps to reduce perceptions of conflicts of interest in bank regulation an...
| 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 | - | - |
ECONOMYNEXT- The Financial Action Task Force, the global policy setter on anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism finan...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government has widened a credit scheme at subsidized interest rates to promote entre...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Pan Asia Bank fell 13 percent from a year earlier to 272 million rupees in the March 2019 quarter...
Sri Lanka's central bank will be introducing a 25 percent ownership limit in licensed finance companies (LFCs) following...
Profits at Sri Lanka's state-run Bank of Ceylon, the country's largest commercial bank fell 12 percent in the March 2019...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank fell 24.6 percent to 2.11 billion rupees in the March 2019 quarter from a year earli...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank fell 55 percent to 1.94 billion rupees in the March 2019 quarter from a year...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Central Bank said it will extend a ban preventing The Finance Company (TFC), a troubled non-ba...
Profits at Commercial Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka's largest privately held bank, fell 23 percent to 3.129 billion rupees i...
Loans to the private borrowers from commercial bank in Sri Lanka picked was 23 billion rupees in March 2019, sharply bel...
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