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Finance Companies are required to have a rating
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Salaried SOE executives and port workers are protesting
So called Stage 3 loans have hit 10.9-pct by the 3rd quarter
Central bank credit to government fell 9.2 billion to 1,745 billion rupees
He most recently served as Director and Country Business Head of Citibank
Sri Lanka's The Finance Plc, a unit if the now defund Ceylinco group which has a 14 billion rupee hole in its balance sh...
ECONOMYNEXT - Fitch Ratings said it was maintaining a negative outlook for Sri Lanka's banking sector on slower growth i...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Central Finance Company, a non-bank lender, grew 23.4 percent from a year earlier to 1.4 billion ...
Sri Lanka's central bank has directed finance companies not go give loans to borrowers in tourism related businesses un...
Sri Lanka's credit to private businesses from commercial banks rose 82 billion rupees in June from 28.8 billion rupees a...
Sri Lanka will only give debt relief to women who have taken micro-loans before June 2018 and have been in default for o...
ECONOMYNEXT - New Zealand has blacklisted a Sri Lanka finance company which had provided false information to get studen...
ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Sri Lanka's listed Seylan Bank fell 26.5 percent from a year ago to 973.7 million rupees in the...
ECONOMYNEXT - NDB Investment Bank (NDBIB) has been named as ‘Sri Lanka’s Best Investment Bank 2018’ ...
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s banking regulator said it has cancelled the licence of Standard Credit Finance Li...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.3603 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 440.9424 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 368.4879 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0805 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.4342 | 231.1659 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.5474 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2492 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 863.2287 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5586 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.4874 | 90.0766 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 million | 1193.67 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 - Sri Lanka's Nation Lanka Finance reported a profit of 19.2 million rupees for the June 2018 quarter, compa...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's listed Union Bank of Colombo said profits grew 7 percent from a year earlier to 134.3 million ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan finance companies will write off loans of up to 100,000 rupees of women in drought-hit a...
Sri Lanka is planning to bring law to control interest rates on micro-finance to 30 percent, the finance ministry said, ...
A micro-finance unit promoted by Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank of Ceylon has started operations in Myanmar.
ECONOMYNEXT- Bankers are scaring away first time customers, which is hurting the entrepreneurial potential of Sri Lanka,...
Fitch Ratings has confirmed ratings of nine Sri Lanka finance companies saying the credit profile of the sector will rem...
Melsta Regal Finance (MRF) has been downgraded 10 notches to 'B(lka)' from 'A+(lka)', after being placed on rating watch...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's banking regulations are relatively strong compared to peers like Mongolia and Vietnam but macr...
ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lankan finance companies Arpico Finance Company Plc and Associated Motor Finance Co. Plc will complete ...
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