8 billion rupees a year earlier.
Profits from fund based activities had increased 14.0 percent by fee based income had grown by just 3.
0 percent with foreign exchange income falling 7.0 percent.
Sri Lanka's rupee appreciated against the US dollar and a tighter peg also reduced volatility, since a balance of payment crisis ended in April 2009.
Total capital adequacy ratio at commercial banks fell to 15.2 percent by June 2010, from 15.4 percent in 2009, after climbing from 13.
8 percent in 2008.
Capital was well above the required levels.
In 2009 banks stopped lending to risky private borrowers and started financing the government deficit which expanded to 10 percent of gross domestic product.
Gild-edged government securities free risk-weighted capital, allowing capital adequacy to rise even as bad loans increase.
Up to June credit has expanded 122 billion rupe