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Sri Lanka to set up financial sector crisis committee

Changes are also planned to a Banking (Special Provisions) Act

March 8, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka begins asset quality review of five banks

Consultants have started work and they are working on five banks

March 7, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka requests banks to re-structure loans of SMEs, wage earners, pensioners

After assessing the repayment capacity, to restructure the loans

March 6, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Bank of Ceylon profits up 25.3-pct in Dec-2022

Provisioning for bad loans and advances grew 20.6 percent to 5.3 billion rupees

March 2, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka Sampath Bank's Rs7.5Bn Basel III debt issue oversubscribed

Sri Lanka Sampath Bank's Rs7.5Bn Basel III debt issue oversubscribed ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank says its 7.5...

March 16, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Nations Trust Bank deploys robotics

ECONOMYNEXT - A digital banking platform, data analytic and robotics is helping Sri Lanka's Nations Trust Bank increase ...

March 13, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s Pan Asia Bank strengthens risk management

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Pan Asia Bank has strengthened risk management and monitoring after the suspensi...

March 12, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka banks to join small business loan scheme

ECONOMYNEXT – Ten Sri Lankan public and private sector banking institutions are to sign up for a government loan ...

March 9, 2018 1 min read

Digital sales grow at Sri Lanka’s Hatton National Bank

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Hatton National Bank (HNB) said revenues from digital payments were growing as c...

March 6, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's CIFL to be liquidated, compensation for depositors

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank said it will cancel the licence of Central Investment and Finance (...

March 5, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Bank of Ceylon net down 5-pct

Profits at Sri Lanka's state-run Bank of Ceylon, fell 5 percent to 7,502 billion rupees in the December 2017 quarter fro...

March 1, 2018 2 min read

Janashakthi share buyback pending approval: Sri Lanka regulator

Sri Lanka's insurance regulator has said that a 11 billion rupee share buyback from Janashakthi Insurance has not been a...

February 28, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's SOE credit grows in December, private credit steady

Sri Lanka's commercial banks loaned 59.8 billion rupees to private borrowers in December 2017, in line with the 61.8 bil...

February 27, 2018 2 min read

Allianz wraps up Janashakthi buy; says policies to continue

Allianz, a German-based insurer said it had completed an acquisition of Janashakthi General Insurance with regulators gi...

February 26, 2018 1 min read
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Sri Lanka's Janashakthi Insurance net down 27-pct in Dec, Rs11bn buyback

Profits at Sri Lanka's Janashakthi Insurance, from life and general businesses, fell 27 percent to 623 million rupees in...

February 26, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Com Bank December net up 12-pct to Rs4.8bn

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank said net profit rose 12% to Rs4.8 billion in the December 2017 q...

February 23, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's HNB net up 14-pct in Dec

Profits at Sri Lanka's Hatton National Bank grew 14 percent from a year earlier to 4.6 billion rupees in the December 20...

February 22, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's ETI affiliate says no approval for investor yet

Sri Lanka's Swarnamahal Financial Services Ltd, an affiliate of ETI which is under central bank administration said a pr...

February 21, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s People’s Insurance Dec quarter net profit down 10-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s People’s Insurance said net profit fell 10% to Rs185 million in the Decem...

February 20, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank gets Myanmar microfinance licence

ECONOMYNEXT - CBC Myanmar Microfinance Co., Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank, has go...

February 19, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's The Finance Losses up 24-pct, balance sheet gap Rs16bn

Losses at Sri Lanka's troubled The Finance Company expanded 24 percent to 598.2 million rupees in the December 2017 quar...

February 17, 2018 4 min read

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank net up 52-pct in Dec

Profits at Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank rose 52 percent to 3.89 billion rupees helped by a 23 percent growth in net interest...

February 16, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Sampath to accept Alipay payments

Sri Lanka's Sampath Bank said it had started to accept payments of Alipay, a payment platform set up by China's Alibaba ...

February 14, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Central Finance net up in Dec quarter, says past profits overstated

Profits at Sri Lanka's Central Finance Plc, a non-bank lender grew 18.9 percent to 1.4 billion rupees in the December 20...

February 12, 2018 2 min read