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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to extend a road restoration project in the North of Sri Lanka to give more communities from the once conflict-ridden region better access to social services and economic opportunities.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has released its annual publication on Public Debt Management for 2011- “Public Debt Management in Sri Lanka, Performance in 2011 and Strategies for 2012 and beyond”.
The rapidly advancing globalised corporate environment and the geographic expansion of corporate networks within and outside the country have brought into focus the urgent need for widely spread knowledge enhancement and training facilities. Therefore, it is clear that quick access to information, knowledge and quality training, are a crucial imperative in order to survive and ...
- Ten Commandments for trainers (Category: Business)
- People’s Bank launches ‘Learning Forum 2012’ to sharpen in-house talent (Category: Business)
- Transforming towards broadband Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- NDB Group 2011 profits up 35% to Rs. 2.9 b (Category: Business)
From left – Hennayake Bandara GM/CEO of NSB, Kapila Ariyaratne GM/CEO of Seylan Bank, Chandrasena Bandara Director of Cooperative Insurance Compan….
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has opened a Branch in the scenic hill country town of Maskeliya, extending its award winning services to residents and travellers to this tea-growing region. Located at No. 244-246, Main Street, Maskeliya, the Bank’s 221st Branch was inaugurated by Commercial Bank Chairman Dinesh Weerakkody. The new branch is computer-linked to ...
- Commercial Bank opens branch in Middeniya (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank launches 365-day banking in Kurunegala (Category: Business)
- Janashakthi Insurance inks deal with Commercial Bank for Bancassurance (Category: Business)
Fitch Ratings Lanka has assigned People’s Leasing Company PLC’s (PLC, ‘AA-(lka)’/Stable) proposed commercial paper issue of up to LKR500m a National Short-Term ‘F1+(lka)’ rating. The proposed notes will have a tenure of one year, and will be used to finance the company’s working capital requirements. The rating reflects the potential extraordinary support ...
- Fitch Ratings has withdrawn Hayleys PLC’s ‘A+(lka)’ National Long-Term rating (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch upgrades People’s Leasing and People’s Finance (Category: Business)
- Fitch rates People’s Leasing ‘B+’; Outlook Stable (Category: Business)
- Fitch rates People’s Leasing’s Rs. 1 b commercial paper at ‘F1’ (Category: Business)
$ 450 m mega project to be completed in 2014 By Uditha Jayasinghe The Government has leased the iconic Transworks House land to India’s Krrish Group for 99 years at $ 49 million, whilst the $ 450 million mega project is slated to be completed by 2014. The land encompasses the Transworks House, a colonial ...
- Ambitious $ 460 m 4-towers Krrish Square at Fort to start selling units from today (Category: Business)
- $ 450 m Transworks Towers to transform city (Category: Business)
- People will be resettled in Sampur: Basil Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- Gains, Pains In Paki FDI (Category: Breaking News)
In clear signs that Sri Lanka’s trade with India is set to grow further and recent noise about Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu has almost no impact on the surging Business-to-Business (B2B) linkages, a 45-member strong biz delegation led by S. Rethinavelu, Senior President of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (TCCI) is ...
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- Passenger ferry service between TN and Sri Lanka likely from October (Category: Breaking News)
- TN Chamber of Commerce concerned over attack on Sri Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
- TN Chamber of Commerce concerned over attack on Sri Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
SriLankan Airlines established its presence in the most bustling district of the Southern Province, Hambantota, with the opening of a new sales office on Friday, 21 September. The branch office will facilitate travel formalities to a large clientele in the south-eastern coast area. The modern facility is equipped to handle reservations, ticketing, Prepaid Ticket Advices ...
- SriLankan Airlines opens an office in Hambantota (Category: Breaking News)
- Classic Travel opens branch at World Trade Centre (Category: Business)
- SriLankan Airlines opens passenger sales agency in Hambantota (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines now in Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) recently provided a Technical Assistance (TA) to the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) aimed at developing foreign reserves management skills of the Maldivian Central Bank. This program helped to build MMA’s institutional capacity to formulate foreign reserves management policies and procedures and to manage its foreign reserves so as ...
- Substantial Gains In Foreign Reserves – CB (Category: Breaking News)
- Reserve Stock (Category: Business)
- Substantial Gains In Foreign Reserves (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives acquires Sri Lankan expertise on foreign reserves management (Category: Breaking News)
By Amantha Perera JEJU, South Korea (IPS): As ravenous consumers of natural resources, companies are beginning to recognise that they owe a monetary debt to the planet, and are sharpening their pencils to calculate it. In 2004, when the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) held its four-yearly World Conservation Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, ...
- IUCN Puts The Accent On Business (Category: Breaking News)
- Facebook IPO: Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to prospective investors outlines core values (Category: Business)
- Nature Trails – setting the trend in eco-tourism (Category: Business)
- Power: Form, flexibility and force (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s falling external deficits should allow the central bank to review its tight monetary and credit policies towards the end of the year, Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told Reuters yesterday.
The Central Bank, with the view to further improving the standard of business conduct and good market practices for the effective and efficient functioning of the foreign exchange trading activities in Sri Lanka, has issued the Banking Act direction No. 1 of 2012 on foreign exchange trading activities of licensed commercial banks.
The year-to-date net foreign inflow has surpassed the Rs. 30 billion mark as the Colombo stock market bounced back yesterday on the strength of a fresh round of buying, following profit taking early in the week. After a small outflow Rs. 31 million on Monday, the market has seen net foreign buying of nearly Rs. ...
- Stocks fall amid profit-taking in overbought market (Category: Business)
- Bourse soars by 2.6% on blue chips, foreign buying (Category: Business)
- Bourse ends week on 5-month high (Category: Business)
Medawachchiya is a bustling town located in the Anuradhapura District, North Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is an important commercial centre of the northern region of Sri Lanka. Commencing from Medawachchiya, four main roads fan out in four directions. They are Jaffna, Kandy, Mannar and Trincomalee. Medawachchiya is situated 27km from Anuradhapura, on the ...
- Seylan Bank Expands Its Network To Madawachchiya (Category: Business)
- Savings Draw (Category: Business)
- Appointment (Category: Business)
- VRS Scheme (Category: Business)
Fitch Ratings Lanka has affirmed Seylan Bank PLC’s (Seylan) National Long-Term rating at ‘A-(lka)’. The Outlook is Stable. A full list of the bank’s ratings is provided at the end of this commentary. Seylan’s rating reflects Fitch’s expectations of support from the State of Sri Lanka if required, given the bank’s systemic importance. However, the ...
- Fitch upgrades Seylan Bank to ‘A-(lka)’ (Category: Business)
- Fitch Affirms Seylan Bank at ‘A-(lka)’/Stable (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch rates Seylan Bank’s subordinated debt ‘BBB+’ (Category: Business)
- Implied Support (Category: Business)
The Central Bank (CB) yesterday in a statement issued new directives on foreign exchange activities that broadly cover market practices and ethical standards. The bank, with the view to further improve the standard of business conduct and good market practices for the effective and efficient functioning of the foreign exchange trading activities in Sri Lanka, ...
- Central Bank Issues Direction On Foreign Exchange Trading Activities (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka issues new directions on forex trading (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Central Bank issues direction on foreign exchange trading activities (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s SEC lifts the 10% price band (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Stocks fell 1.4 per cent yesterday as investors booked profits across the board in an overbought market after a 15-session rally. The Colombo Stock Exchange’s main index, which fell 2.2 per cent in early trade, recouped its early losses to end 1.04 per cent, or 61.67 points, weaker at 5,849.14. “We are going to ...
- In homes with tablet computers, most kids use them (Category: Business)
- Positive results for Asia Pacific hotels in Sept (Category: Business)
- CEB workers to protest again (Category: Breaking News)
- Indonesia’s tourism sector to focus on emerging markets (Category: Business)
In an attempt to increase loan access to middle class consumers, DFCC Vardhana Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday signed an agreement for a US$ 15 million 10-year lending facility. The facility granted to DFCC is expected to be disbursed amongst young entrepreneurs, first-time home ownership by family units, self-employed individuals and women ...
- Fitch affirms DFCC Bank at ‘AA’; Outlook stable (Category: Business)
- Central Bank decides to keep policy rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank further reduces policy interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
- Bank of Canada holds rate steady (Category: Canada, Ontario)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) recently awarded training partner status to Lankaputhra Development Bank and AHL Business Solutions. Accordingly, Lankaputhra Development Bank and AHL Business Solutions will provide training for students following the chartered accounting course at the strategic level stage. At a ceremony held at the Institute’s Colombo ...
- CA Sri Lanka recognises 20 new organisations as Strategic Level training partners (Category: Business)
- State Banking (Category: Business)
- State Support (Category: Business)
- State Banking (Category: Business)
The unprecedented drought over the past few months due to the long delay of the south-west monsoon affected the entire country, resulting in withered paddy-fields to farmers; chicken farmers forced to slaughter animals due to water scarcity, soaring vegetable prices for housewives, and power cuts for everyone. The effects of the drought, the victims and ...
- The drought, Mahaveli waters and the farmer (Category: Business)
- Paddy farmers’ problems (Category: Business)
- CEB: Making losses or deliberate blunders? (Category: Business)
- Reservoirs run dry with no rains, country heading for electricity crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Nations Trust Bank’s much-awaited Corporate Quiz for their corporate elite will be staged at the Cinnamon Grand Oak Room on 21 September from 5:30 p.m. onwards. The quest to win this battle to supremacy among Sri Lanka’s corporate elite will be set on one of the most celebrated movie saga, ‘Tron’ based on the theme ...
- Anthropology in tech (Category: Technology)
- McGuinty eyes freeze on corporate tax cut (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Airport wins Thebarton Oval naming rights (Category: South Australia)
- Hawaiian Telcom gives $86K to United Way (Category: USA, Hawaii)
Union Assurance PLC performing the charge of the light brigade in the last quarter, pulled off an unexpected 55/50 win over the fancied DFCC Group in the Mercantile Services Basketball Association “A” division League Tournament Final played at the Otter AC Courts, under lights, last Friday. DFCC, who got off to a cracking start led ...
- MCA 2012 season kicks off this weekend (Category: Business)
- David Peiris sponsors ongoing MCA “E” division 40-overs League Tournament 2012 (Category: Business)
- DFCC Bank team wins global asset and liability management competition (Category: Business)
- Browns Exide, TAFE sponsor Mercantile Hockey Sevens (Category: Business)
ESPNcricinfo: Northamptonshire have decided not to renew Chaminda Vaas’ contract for 2013, citing the 38-year-old’s troubles with fitness last season. A variety of injuries saw the former Sri Lanka seam bowler play in only six of Northants’ 16 Division Two Championship matches and he also missed much of the Clydesdale Bank 40. Vaas had been ...
- Lionheart Vaas is roaring again (Category: Sports)
- Veteran Vaas shows his class (Category: Sports)
- Cricket Squad (Category: Business)
- Getting Set (Category: Business)
Reuters: Stocks fell one per cent on Tuesday from an eight-month high, snapping a four-day gaining streak as investors booked profits across the board. The Colombo Stock Exchange’s main index ended 0.98 per cent, or 58.28 points, weaker at 5,910.81. “The market is consolidating with a little bit of profit-taking and getting ready for the ...
- In homes with tablet computers, most kids use them (Category: Business)
- Positive results for Asia Pacific hotels in Sept (Category: Business)
- CEB workers to protest again (Category: Breaking News)
- Indonesia’s tourism sector to focus on emerging markets (Category: Business)
Cabraal says that price pressures will remain, keeps policy rates and growth figures steady The Central Bank kept policy rates unchanged yesterday, on expectations that inflation would remain contained to single digit levels on policy changes to reduce demand. The concerted efforts by the Central Bank and the Government earlier this year to curb the ...
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- CB seen keeping rates steady for fifth straight month (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to grow at 7.2% (Category: Business)
- CB banks on policy changes (Category: Business)
Issue oversubscribed by two times, says Central Bank The Central Bank has had its latest issue of Sri Lanka Development Bonds oversubscribed by two times, bringing the total bid to US$ 121.05 million, the monetary institution said in a statement. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka, ...
- Central Bank successful at 1st Sri Lanka Development Bonds issue in 2010 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka plans to issue sovereign bond for up to $1 bn (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka`s 12 billion rupees T-bills oversubscribed (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Central Bank to remove old currency notes from circulation (Category: Breaking News)
Commendable achievements Over the years Sri Lanka has gained a considerable reputation for its achievements in social development. It punches above its weight on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. It has also performed very well in meeting the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focus on indicators related to poverty, health, education and gender ...
- From poverty to sustainability in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Equity and well-being in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Divi Neguma’ Dept: Development catalyst, dependency creator or a white elephant? (Category: Business)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is concentrating on developing nine sectors including infrastructure in Sri Lanka and the far eastern region including Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to foster economic development. “Asian Development Bank has assisted sub regional economic cooperation in the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS) to enhance their economic relations, covering nine priority ...
- Sri Lanka looks for more economic links with Greater Mekong region (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka drops to 76th in 2024 Tourism Development Index (Category: Breaking News)
- Promoting South Asian tourism through inter-regional circuits (Category: Business)
Dialog Enterprise, the corporate solutions arm of Dialog Axiata PLC, has partnered with Sri Lanka’s largest listed bank, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, to provide integrated enterprise communication solutions, which would ensure uninterrupted and highly secure connectivity leading to smooth banking services for Commercial Bank customers. The new data centre hosted at the Dialog Axiata ...
- Edna Group inks deal with Dialog Axiata (Category: Business)
- Dialog Enterprise inks deal with Stafford Motors (Category: Business)
- Dialog Axiata opens Enterprise Discovery Centre in Colombo (Category: Business)
- Dialog extends deal with Cable&Wireless to provide managed services to customers (Category: Business)
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