HNB’s Managing Director and CEO Jonathan Alles, in his capacity as the Chairman of Asian Bankers Association (ABA), inaugurated the ABA’s 37th General Meeting and Conference.

People’s Bank has joined hands with the Kandy Municipal Council to enable the citizens residing within the Council limits to conveniently pay their water bills using the LANKAQR network.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has been declared the ‘Best SME Bank’ in Sri Lanka and the ‘Best Foreign Bank’ in Bangladesh in 2021 by the UK-based Global Business Outlook (GBO) magazine which recognises and rewards excellence in businesses ar

A state-of-the-art digital platform that will help recruiters to navigate a database of jobseekers, profiles of candidates, sort them by experience, job relevance, qualifications and many more will be a new feature CH17 will offer all its corporate c

Advantis 3PL Plus, a member of the Hayleys Advantis Group has won the ‘Best in Diversity and Impact Management Award’ at the Asian HR Leadership Awards and was ranked amongst the 100 Best Small-Medium Workplaces in Asia for 2021 by Great Place to

McLarens Group, one of Sri Lanka’s largest diversified conglomerates has been recognized among the 70 best large workplaces in Asia by the global authority on workplace culture Great Place to Work.

Ceylinco Life has significantly expanded its operations in Negombo, following the opening of the company’s latest eco-friendly branch building in this coastal city, on company-owned land.

AIA Quick Pay, the disruptive digital premium payment app developed specially for AIA Insurance’s wealth planners and financial planning executives to collect customer premiums, has hit a whopping Rs.1 billion worth of transactions and premium coll

Bank of Ceylon (BOC), as a part of its commemoration of the 82nd anniversary, reopened its Matara Super Grade branch at its own premises by the bank’s General Manager D.P.K. Gunasekera, Senior Deputy General Manager K.E.D. Sumanasiri, DGM Sales and

Although the coronavirus pandemic brought our lives to a halt once again with yet another lockdown, NDB NEOS has stepped up its already exceptional service with innovative digital features to make banking at home easier and more convenient.

Union Bank announced that its mobile app UBgo has now been further enhanced with the JustPay payment solution from LankaPay to enable seamless payments.

Attracting investor attention since it was first announced, SDB bank concluded its Secondary Public Offering (SPO) with a successful oversubscription of the initial issue of Rs.3.5 billion.

The Gampaha Municipal Council has fully digitised its payments platform in partnership with Commercial Bank of Ceylon.

Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced a partnership with DirectPay, one of the fastest-growing fintech start-ups in Sri Lanka, to provide Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) support and operate as the acquiring bank for the cashless payment solutions th

CLC Islamic Finance, the Islamic banking division (IBD) of Commercial Leasing & Finance PLC, (CLC), introduced its latest service offering: Wadi’ah (Safe Keeping), an alternative for conventional gold loans.

Bank of Ceylon (BOC), the state-owned premier Sri Lankan bank, continued to hold on tightly to its top position among other banks in the country, according to the rating by the prestigious banker’s magazine of the United Kingdom.

HNB Assurance PLC saw its top line rising in the three months to June, as individual life insurance premiums rose followed by corporate policies but the general insurance premiums fell due to still anaemic motor insurance business hurt by the ban on

Seylan Bank, the Bank with a Heart, has unveiled the first-ever SME debit card for business banking customers to convert cash transactions to POS.

First Capital Holdings PLC, a member of the Janashakthi group, recorded a profit after tax of Rs.136 million for the first quarter of 2021 (first quarter of 2021/22), compared to Rs.1.46 billion in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The Continuous Professional Development committee of the Association of Professional Bankers (APB) recently conducted the second webinar of the series of webinars, which is part of the annual calendar of the APB.

A unique, commemorative publication in celebration of People’s Bank’s 60th anniversary was officially presented by People’s Bank Chairman Sujeewa Rajapakse to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, at Temple Trees, recently.

In an effort to enhance the nation’s digital financial landscape in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s leading private sector bank HNB PLC recently announced that its secure corporate payment platform ‘PAYFAST’ had recorded over a

Insurer AIA Group Ltd raised its interim dividend this week and posted a jump in first-half new business value, as it recovered from pandemic-led business disruptions in most of its main markets apart from Hong Kong.

For the first time in Sri Lanka, Amana Takaful Life Insurance is offering customisable life insurance plans, with a Gold Fund, a step forward in the life insurance industry of Sri Lanka.

Softlogic Invest, the asset management arm of the Softlogic group, recently celebrated one year of revolutionising Sri Lanka’s investment landscape with its unique and innovative approach to making unit trust funds accessible to a whole new generat

Standard Chartered Sri Lanka won the Credit Card Initiative of the Year – Sri Lanka Award for the bank’s ‘2By20 Campaign on Loan on Card’, at the recently announced Asian Banking and Finance (ABF) Retail Banking Awards 2021.

Another 103 Ceylinco Life policyholders are celebrating the luck of the draw after the life insurance leader presented them with gold worth Rs.5 million under the 14th edition of its ‘Family Savari’ mega promotion.

Amana Bank PLC reported some robust financial performance in the three months to June (2Q21), on improving margins and new loans, albeit the momentum slowed in its fiscal second quarter, due to the virus resurgence.

At its recent International Business Awards for 2021, Dubai-based publication International Business Magazine awarded Fintrex Finance Ltd with the prestigious title of Fastest Growing Finance Company in Sri Lanka for 2021, after an independent survey

Nations Trust Bank PLC (NTB) reported robust financial performance in the three months to June (2Q21), albeit the momentum slowed in new loans while the margins were weighed down by the overall descent in interest rates and the regulatory caps impose