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Single borrower exposure limits will also be reviewed to reduce the sovereign-bank nexus
Banking sector likely to collapse if government decides for domestic debt restructuring-analysts
Private credit contracted 224.4 billion rupees in the five months to October
They have given some already
Recalibration reflects changes in relative creditworthiness of Sri Lankan issuers after Fitch upgraded Sri Lanka's
Digital payments promotion campaign launched in Hambantota
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC said September 2017 quarter net profit grew 11.46%...
Sri Lanka will start a crop insurance scheme for farmers with part of the premium being paid by tax-payers, amounting to...
Sri Lanka's budget for 2018 has announced plans to build a bank for start-ups and small and medium enterprises with a ta...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government will allocate Rs10 billion to set up an enterprise development bank to gi...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Nations Trust Bank (NTB) said net profit for the September 2017 quarter rose 33%...
Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings has been permitted by the regulator to retain a 29.9 percent stake in Nations Trust Ban...
Sri Lanka's Union Bank group, said profits grew 13 percent from a year earlier to 150.9 million rupees in the September ...
Sri Lanka's Union Bank of Colombo Plc said Atul Malik, a former Citi banker who also headed Vietnam's Maritime Bank had ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing & Finance (PLC) said net profit for the September 2017 quarter ...
Sri Lanka's central bank has given three years for licensed bank to increase their capital to reach Basel III standards.
| 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 LB Finance Plc, a publicly traded licensed non-bank lender said it will set up a 99 percent unit in Myanmar.
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan celco Dialog Axiata said it will retain all employees of Colombo Trust Finance, a financ...
Sri Lanka's PABC Bank said it had wrapped up a 33 million US dollar credit line from an international climate change fun...
ECONOMYNEXT - Fitch Ratings Lanka said it has confirmed the National Long-Term Ratings on five small and mid-sized Sri L...
Sri Lanka's bank credit to private and state fell to 32 billion rupees in July 2017 from 64 billion rupees a month earli...
Sri Lanka's state-run National Insurance Trust Fund will prepare a plan to insure key agricultural crops up to 40,000 ru...
The paid up capital of Sri Lanka's state-run Bank of Ceylon has been raised from 10 billion rupees to 15 billion rupees,...
Sri Lanka's re-insurance premiums on flood cover is likely to rise after a spate of unusual rainfall and insurers has to...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan celco Dialog Axiata has bought a controlling stake in Colombo Trust Finance PLC, a finan...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan insurance companies are likely to face higher tax expenses under a new tax law that was ...
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