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Sri Lankan start-ups pitch for MTI’s idea2fund venture challenge platform
The 3rd wave of MTI’s ‘idea2fund’ successfully completed the second round’s concept presentations on the 17th of February at the Hilton Colombo. ‘idea2fund’ is a venture challenge platform powered by MTI Corporate Finance for aspiring entrepreneurs to pitch venture ideas, connect with potential investors and receive consulting advisory & implementation support through MTI Consulting. 17 […]
Sri Lanka receives South Asia Procurement Innovation Award
Sri Lanka has received the South Asia Procurement Innovation Award 2017- 2018 at the Fifth South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference held from February 5 – 8, 2018 in New Delhi. A case story on the path breaking reform submitted by the Department of Public Finance of the Ministry of Finance and Mass Media was […]
DFCC Bank profit after tax up 34-pct in 2017 amid tight margins
DFCC Bank continued to demonstrate positive momentum across businesses in 2017 as a rapidly growing commercial bank completing its second year after the amalgamation. Despite a backdrop of higher taxes, volatile interest rates, tight margins and intensifying competition, the Bank closed the financial year ended 31 December 2017 with a profit before tax of LKR […]
‘s Liability Management Bill presented to Parliament
Feb 20, 2018 (LBO) – The new Active Liability Management Bill, to improve public debt management, was presented to Parliament for the first reading, Monday. Through this new bill Sri Lanka’s public debt sustainability is to be managed at a national level. To avoid any possible risk, appropriate reform methods are to be followed. Following […]
Seylan Group’s PAT tops Rs.5Bn
(PRESS RELEASE) – Seylan group reported a resilient performance by recording a Profit after tax of Rs.5,004 Million for the year ended 31st December 2017, which is the highest profit reported in its history. Seylan Bank also continued its growth momentum by achieving a profit after tax of Rs. 4,430 Million during the period under review. […]
‘s CBC Myanmar Microfinance gets license to operate in Myanmar
Feb 20, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank subsidiary CBC Myanmar Microfinance Co., Ltd, has obtained the operation license from the Myanmar Micro-finance Supervisory Enterprise to operate in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.“This would be as a non-saving deposit organisation,” The Bank said in a stock exchange filling. Commercial Bank has had […]
Sampath Bank reports PAT of Rs12Bn
(PRESS RELEASE) – Sampath Bank posted a Profit After Tax (PAT) of Rs 12.1 Bn for the year ended 31st December 2017, an impressive 32.7% YoY growth compared to Rs 9.1 Bn recorded int he previous year. Similarly, Profit Before Tax (PBT) too grew by 31.8% YoY to reach Rs 16.6 Bn for the period under […]
‘s Bank of Ceylon appoints new GM/CEO
Feb 20, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lankan state bank, Bank of Ceylon has appointed K. B. Senarath Bandara as its new General Manager and CEO with effect from 22 February. The appointment comes following the retirement of GM/CEO D. M. Gunasekara. Bandara is a senior banker and at present operates as the Deputy General Manager […]
Hayleys Advantis Does the Heavy Lifting for IRONMAN 70.3 Colombo
(PRESS RELEASE) – Lending its expertise in end to end logistics management to ‘Sri Lanka Wonder of Asia IRONMAN 70.3 Colombo’, Hayleys Advantisannounced that it is handling the movement of all cargo being brought to Colombo from the IRONMAN regional hub in Malaysia. Advantis’ teams in Colombo are working closely with Advantis Malaysia on this.The […]
Hemasiri Fernando’s new book on Ceylon Railways launched
There are very few books in the literary world that offer you worthwhile reading about the history of Ceylon Railways. Fewer still; books written in English by Sri Lankan authors with hands on experience on this particular subject. Among them, there are two books that comes to any railway expert’s mind; ‘The Viceroy Special’ and […]
Transshipments at Colombo Port up by 20.4-pct in January
Feb 19, 2018 (LBO) – Transshipment operations at the Port of Colombo have shown a significant increase in January this year against last year amid an increase in productivity, Sri Lanka Ports Authority said. Accordingly against 362,451 transshipment TEU operations in January 2017, together with the JCT, SAGT and CICT, the Colombo Port has recorded 436,303 […]
‘s small businesses
Feb 16, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has decided to obtain an additional financing through a loan of US 75 million dollars from the Asian Development Bank to scale up the ongoing Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) line of credit project, the Finance Ministry said. The Government had earlier obtained ADB financial assistance of US […]