Notable
After 5 years AWPR plus 200bp
Deadline to cut stake to 20-pct Dec 31
To be 150bp below 364-day T-bill yield
The funds will be on-lent to micro, small and medium enterprises
Construction investment credit is usually one of the big beneficiaries when central banks print money
NPLs in foreign banks and domestic systemically important banks falling
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Alliance Finance PLC and Guardian Acuity Asset Management (GAAM) are offering a ...
Gehan Rajapakse, a senior insurance sector executive, has been appointed chief executive of Amana Takaful, an Islamic in...
Profits at Sri Lanka's Seylan Bank group barely grew 1.04 percent to Rs1,062 million in the June 2016, from a year earli...
ECONOMYNEXT - Commercial Credit & Finance PLC recently joined the LankaPay Common ATM Network linking over 95% of automa...
Sri Lanka's NDB Bank Plc has rolled back an attempt to scrap its mandatory requirement for an independent non-executive ...
The Sri Lankan government is to lend up to a Rs1 billion to private regional plantations companies through two state ban...
Washington-based International Finance Corporation will provide full and partial export credit risk guarantees for custo...
Sri Lanka's bank credit private business fell to 27.4 million rupees in April 2016 from 87.8 million rupees, the lowest ...
Claims from a May 2016 floods in Sri Lanka is manageable for the sector but small insurers who were already undercapital...
ECONOMYNEXT - Amana Takaful Life Ltd. is to make an initial public offering of 50 million shares at Rs1.50 a share, a st...
| 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 Commercial Bank said it had introduced a remittance card licensed by Visa Inc. enabling...
Sri Lanka's Softologic group has struck a deal to sell general insurance unit of Asian Alliance Insurance to Canada-base...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka wants to set up a special purpose vehicle to fix troubled finance companies, with IMF standing b...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's insurance claims from a recent flood could be around 15.5 billion rupees, which was manageable...
COLOMBO, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On April 1, the Sri Lankan government paid Rs300 million ($2 million) as...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help Sri Lanka set up a venture capital fund for small and m...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank said the cost of overseas travel and related work by present govern...
DHAKA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hours before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York approved four fraudulent requests to send $...
ECONOMYNEXT - People's Leasing and Finance Plc, Sri Lanka's largest non-bank lender, is entering Bangladesh, with domest...
DHAKA, May 30 (Reuters) - Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its ...
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