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Relevance to microfinance and total financial inclusion Section 10 (2) of the Finance Business Act No. 42 of 2011, provides that: no other person other than a finance company and an institution specified under s. 10 (6), shall use the words ‘finance,’ ‘financing,’ or ‘financial’ as a part of its name or description, except with ...
- Micro finance: As India moves forward, Sri Lanka stagnates (Category: Business)
- Unregulated microfinance - A high-risk strategy (Category: Business)
- Regulation of microfinance institutions (Category: Business)
- ‘Divi Neguma’ Dept: Development catalyst, dependency creator or a white elephant? (Category: Business)
Ahead of Friday's AGM, Pan Asia Bank Plc (PABC Bank) Board of Directors yesterday appointed Nimal Perera as the Chairman and Eshana de Silva as the Deputy. Nimal was previously the Deputy Chairman and was elevated as the incumbent senior banker A.G. Weerasinghe is up for retirement. The new appointments are effective from 2 April. ...
- Raises Rs. 150 Mn. (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-SEC DG Channa appointed to Pan Asia Bank board (Category: Business)
- Nimal Perera, new chairman of PABC (Category: Breaking News)
- Heavy movements in financial sector boards (Category: Business)
Veteran banker Eastman Narangoda today stepped down as Chairman of Seylan Bank after a record-making three year tenure at its helm. Making the announcement at the Bank’s AGM yesterday Narangoda cited “personal reasons” for his decision. Appointed as Chairman of Seylan Bank PLC on 30 December 2008, Eastman Narangoda was a key figure who instrumented ...
- Seylan launches ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ with mega benefits on offer (Category: Business)
- Seylan Bank launches its first drive-through ATM (Category: Business)
- Winners galore in Seylan Bank’s ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ draw (Category: Business)
- Seylan Bank gifts Rs. 100,000 from the skies and from door to door (Category: Business)
Lankan born Gishan Dissanaike, the Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance, University of Cambridge will share key insights to the good, bad and the ugly of insider trading at seminar on Monday jointly organized by the Institute of Chartered Corporate Secretaries and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in partnership with the Daily FT. Dissanaike will ...
- Seminar on insider trading (Category: Business)
- New SEC Chief says won’t turn blind eye to robbers invading bourse (Category: Business)
- Insider trading: Good, bad or ugly? (Category: Business)
- Insider trading: Is it rampant, cause for market’s ill or mere paranoia? (Category: Business)
HSBC has appointed Kanchana G. Hewavitharana as Chief Financial Officer for HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives and Michael J.F. Hung as Chief Risk Officer for HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives. Both Kanchana and Michael arrived to the country from overseas postings in HSBC Hong Kong and Vietnam, respectively. Kanchana, who succeeds Fadhil Jiffry, began his ...
- Top international banker Jehaan appointed CEO of First Capital (Category: Business)
- HSBC says turnaround plan on target, costs cut by $2 b (Category: Business)
- HSBC sells general insurance business for $ 914 m (Category: Business)
- HSBC sponsors Hong Kong National Rugby teams (Category: Business)
After 30 years of violence, northern Sri Lanka is opening up to tourism Saying I’m going on holiday to Sri Lanka elicits one of two reactions from my friends. There’s the ooh-elephants-temples-cocktails-at-sunset-lucky-you! brigade. And then there are my friends who read the newspapers. “Which beach did you say you’re staying on?” emails a friend. “The one where ...
- Sri Lanka: Unpunished Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- On accountability the LLRC report is disappointing – Butenis (Category: Breaking News)
- NO END IN SIGHT:Tamil’s being searched and detained again in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘This agony is unbearable’ – Relatives of surrendered and disappeared (Category: Breaking News)
The entry in to Sri Lanka by Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad via John Keells Holdings (JKH) is being hailed as a all round boost for the country, the Colombo stock market as well as the premier blue chip. JKH which has many first to its credit is also the first stock on ...
- Khazanah kudos! (Category: Business)
- ‘Empathetic’ Provident Fund! (Category: Business)
- Net foreign inflow tops Rs. 30 b; Bourse rebounds (Category: Business)
- Foreign craving for stocks grows; inflow tops Rs. 28 b (Category: Business)
My column today is an attempt to focus our attention on a few less spoken or untold developments that may have a profound influence on how we carve our way through in creating a desirable social, economic and political future for mankind on this only planet of ours. While I will not specifically touch on ...
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
- The ‘Doha Mandate’ (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Global trends in investment (Category: Business)
An eminent panel of speakers will address the International Marketing Conference 2012 organised by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) to be held at Hotel Galadari on Thursday, 1 March. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH) Sri Lanka Director of Marketing Subroto Geed will make a presentation on ‘Practical Insights into Brand Adaptation vs Standardisation’. An ...
- Tilan becomes youngest SLIM President (Category: Business)
- Wheels in motion for SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2012 (Category: Business)
- Driving marketing in the boardroom (Category: Business)
- SLIM, SLII to introduce Diploma in Insurance Marketing (Category: Business)
Top apparel exporter supports workshop on sustainability at AIESEC Sri Lanka event Sri Lanka’s top apparel exporter Brandix extended its globally-acclaimed commitment to the environment to the youth by supporting a forum on the sustainability of the environment, held as part of the first-ever Sri Lanka International Youth Forum of AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run ...
- Brandix Promotes Sustainability (Category: Breaking News)
- Brandix proves eco sustainable solutions viable and profitable (Category: Business)
- Youth Fest 2012 takes off this August (Category: Business)
- Youth Fest 2011 a success (Category: Business)
Following are some responses from three economists to the guest column by Chandra Jayaratne titled ‘Important issues’ for Sri Lankan legislators, the Executive, policymakers, Central Bankers, economists and thought leaders to ponder over published on 2 February 1) I disagree with the Stiglitz-Krugman line. My diagnosis is that Europe is in this mess for two ...
- Important issues (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Asian economies: Managing spillovers and advancing economic rebalancing (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s economy stands to gain from a stronger Europe: German Envoy (Category: Business)
Rapidly expanding, Divasa Finance Limited recently announced the appointment of Prof. Arjuna De Silva and Mr. Vasula Premawardhana as non-executive directors of the company. Prof. Arjuna De Silva (MBBS, MD, MSc [Oxon], FRCP [Lond], FCCP) is a professor in medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. He obtained the MRCP (UK) ...
- Ruhunu University students attacked by the Nil Balakaya(Blue Battalion): 9 hospitalised; 2 in se... (Category: Breaking News)
- Red Ink (Category: Business)
- Finance Losses (Category: Business)
- Finance Recovery (Category: Business)
Following is the keynote address delivered by Senior Minister of Human Resources D.E.W. Gunasekera at the South Asian Regional Consultative Seminar on Human Development and Measurement of Human Development Progress, held at the IPS Auditorium from 30-31 January 2012 Public understanding of human development was galvanised by the appearance of the first Human Development Report ...
- 2011: Power achievements for Sri Lanka, but… (Category: Business)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- Top Sri Lanka Ports, Trade & Logistics conference and expo starts (Category: Business)
- More and better jobs: Policy prescription for South Asia (Category: Business)
Increasing risks and probability of natural disasters Consider the volcanic eruptions in Iceland and Congo, the destructive earthquakes that hit Christchurch, eastern Turkey and the East Coast of Tohoku in Japan, as well as the recent flooding in Thailand and one thing becomes clear about natural disasters – their risks, probability and consequences are higher ...
- David Roden on banking sector risk management (Category: Business)
- Ban urges global leaders gathered at UN to “shape the world of tomorrow” (Category: Business)
- Record CAT losses prompt two-speed insurance market (Category: Business)
- Mitigating IT fraud and data theft in businesses (Category: Business)
Ms. Sharmini Coorey, who has worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 1986, on Monday was named to a top post as the head of the new IMF Institute, the fund announced.It said the new department is focused on helping member states build capacity and develop their key economic and financial institutions. “The new department will be formed by merging the IMF Institute and the Office of T...
- Lanka economy on right track for next 200 million USD tranch: IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF delegation to arrive in Sri Lanka on Thursday (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says technical talks will continue as planned until new government is formed (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF plans in-person Sri Lanka mission in coming weeks for policy talks (Category: Breaking News)
The Australian College of Business and Technology (ACBT) in association with Australian government-owned Edith Cowan University (ECU), offers students who have completed their Advanced Level examinations an opportunity to receive a globally recognised Australian degree qualification right here in Sri Lanka. Edith Cowan University is listed in the Commonwealth Universities yearbook and the Internat...
- Obtain An MBA From A Presitigous Australian University (Category: Breaking News)
- Get a head start on a career in science and engineering with ACBT (Category: Business)
- Over 300 Students Of ACBT Graduate With Globally Recognised Qualifications (Category: Breaking News)
- Bigger Adyapana 2012 planned in three cities (Category: Business)
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna announced in Colombo a substantial expansion in the scholarships currently being offered by Government of India to meritorious Sri Lankan students. Under this initiative, the number of scholarships and Self-Finance slots for Undergraduate, Masters and Phd Courses is being increased from the existing 113 slots to 270 per year. ...
- 10 Sri Lankan youth to go to India under cultural schols (Category: Business)
- India offers scholarships for Sri Lankan students (Category: Business)
- India offers higher education scholarships to Sri Lankan students (Category: Breaking News)
- 10 more scholarships for studying in India (Category: Business)
Facing the short-term economic challengesThe macroeconomic imbalances Sri Lanka has achieved a growth rate of 8.3% last year and inflation fell to 4.9% year-on-year in December 2011. These are noteworthy achievements at a time when the global economic landscape has been hostile with a slowdown in the US and a crisis in Europe; key markets ...
- CCC says no room for complacency (Category: Business)
- Commendable start; now for the finish (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Enhancing confidence in the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
‘A ruler with a depleted treasury eats into the very vitality of the citizens and the country. A ruler, who impoverishes his own people or angers them by unjust exactions will also lose their loyalty Impoverishment, greed and dissatisfaction are engendered among the subjects, when the ruler among other things (i) fails to give what ought ...
- 2024 Election Year; The Perennial Challenge Of Cleaning The Stables For Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
- Prosecuting Aragalaya Protestors; A Legal Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Honeymoon With The ‘Inglorious Illegitimates’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Nihal Sri takes on ‘Expropriation Bill’ (Category: Business)
LTTE rump groups and pro-LTTE organisations are trying hard to achieve their separatist ideology in the countryDefence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday said that there is a possibility of the re-emergence of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, as LTTE sympathisers abroad are still struggling to achieve the LTTE’s separatist ideology in the country. He made ...
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- Security is still critical in peaceful Sri Lanka – Gota (Category: Business)
- Country must utilise opportunity afforded by peace: Defence Secy (Category: Business)
“Our sense is that if we do not act boldly and if we do not act together, the economy around the world runs the risk of a downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and potential collapse of global demand… we could run the risk of what some commentators are already calling the lost decade” – ...
- W. Bank’s Zoellick says double-dip recession unlikely (Category: Business)
- Flashing red - European debt crisis signals collapse of social welfare state (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
- G20 backs Europe’s plans for overhaul to fight crisis (Category: Business)
If the Governor of Central Bank has an urge to enter politics, he should come to Parliament without playing politics inside the CB, charges United National Party Parliamentarian and well-known Economist Dr. Harsha de Silva. Dr. de Silva notes that Governor Nivard Cabraal should respect the sanctity of the Central Bank and therefore if Cabraal ...
- Treasury Chief urges help for balance of payments (Category: Business)
- Nivard sees weak rupee recovering to 125 (Category: Business)
- Central Bank sees rupee firming helped by inflows (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka affirms flexible FX policy, but will intervene if needed (Category: Business)
I would like to thank the Organisation of Professional Associations for inviting me to be the Guest of Honour at this Induction Ceremony. I also take this opportunity to wish the incoming President and the members of the Council every success in taking this organisation to greater heights in future. Sri Lanka today is a ...
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- DEFENCE SECRETARY HAS WARNED THAT SRI LANKA IS STILL UNDER THREAT (Category: Breaking News)
- Security is still critical in peaceful Sri Lanka – Gota (Category: Business)
A Sri Lankan has been awarded one of the most prestigious international scholarships to network with the next generation of Asian leaders by the Government of Singapore. Duminda Ariyasinghe, Executive Director (Investment Promotion and Media) at the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), has been awarded a Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) Fellowship by the ...
Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...
- France assures assistance to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- French President Emmanuel Macron pledges strong support for debt restructuring in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- France continues support for Sri Lanka’s renewable energy plans (Category: Breaking News)
The third year undergraduates of the University of Colombo’s Business Administration degree program visited the Colombo Stock Exchange recently. The group of 120 undergraduates was introduced to the basics and inner working of Sri Lanka’s dynamic Stock Exchange through a discussion and a visit to the trading floor. The field visit was organised by the ...
- Virtusa Apprentice Program to expand capacity and create opportunities (Category: Breaking News)
- British Council and HSBC to assist Sri Lankan students (Category: Breaking News)
- Business events feast (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Singapore business delegation to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sampath Bank with effect from 1 January has got a new Chairman and several new youthful additions to its Board of Directors. The Bank announced on Friday that at a Board of Directors meeting held on 29 December Chairman I.W. Senanayake decided to step down with effect from 31 December. Whilst accepting this decision the ...
- Dhammika to be appointed Chairman of Sampath Bank (Category: Business)
- CB clears five new nominees to Sampath Bank Board (Category: Business)
- Qualified daughters make their way to boards (Category: Business)
- Former CB Deputy Governor appointed to COMBank Board (Category: Business)
An International Research Conference on Transdisciplinary Perspective on Accounting will be held in Sri Lanka on 4 and 5 January at the Central Bank’s Centre for Banking Studies Auditorium at Rajagiriya, Colombo from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conference has been jointly organised by the Department of Accounting of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, ...
- Sri Lankan capital to host international conference on accounting and consulting in July (Category: Breaking News)
- International Research Conference on Transdisciplinary (Category: Breaking News)
- HLB International holds Indian Sub Continent meeting in Colombo (Category: Business)
- Taking management accounting beyond financials (Category: Business)
Central Bank has approved the five new nominees to the Board of Sampath Bank Plc in place of an equal number retiring by next week. The five nominees who are qualified and professionals in their respective fields are former International Finance Corporation (IFC) Sri Lanka and Maldives Resident Representative Sanjiva Senanayake, Orit Apparels Chairman Channa ...
- Sampath Bank Group CFO Ajantha de Vas Gunasekara joins Board of Directors (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Siyapatha Finance to issue LKR 4 billion debentures, reinforcing commitment to growth’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Five new directors appointed to Asian Alliance Insurance Board (Category: Business)
- Kotelawala not available for re-election (Category: Business)
The Monetary Board, at its meeting held on 16 December 2011, has promoted four Staff Class Grade IV officers, A. Kamalasiri, R. Dheerasinghe, S.S. Ratnayake and K.D. Ranasinghe to the post of Assistant Governor with effect from 1 January, 2012. These promotions have been made in line with the succession plan of the Bank to ...
- Three new Assistant Governors for CB (Category: Business)
- Daulagala appointed new CBSL Deputy Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Union Bank appoints former CB Deputy Governor to Board (Category: Business)
- Jayatissa new Chairman of Insurance Corp. (Category: Business)
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