People’s Bank Foreign Currency Gold Fortune 2016 recently saw the completion of the first draw announcing the winner of the week.

The unique promotion was created to encourage those living and working abroad to use People’s InstantRemit, People’s e-Remittance, Swift and Telex, to send money to their loved ones in Sri Lanka. Present to make the draw was Deputy General Manager Process Management and Quality Assurance Renuka Jayasinghe, Assistant General Manager Trade Finance A.S.M.W. Kumarasiri, Assistant General Manager OCS and Financial Institutions Nipunika Wijeratne. The first winner was N. Viyjayavani from the Trincomalee town branch.

The promotion encourages people to make remittances of any amount to be eligible to receive a 22k one sovereign gold coin on a weekly basis for a period of 28 weeks.