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Union Bank of Colombo PLC is one of the top five banks in Sri Lanka in market capitalization as well as one of the country's fastest growing Financial Services Groups. [4] As of 31 October 2017, the bank operated 66 branches and 121 automatic teller machines (ATM) across the island nation. [4]
In January 2016, Commercial Bank of Ceylon announced that for the first time in Sri Lanka's banking history that the users of the bank's online banking facility could make instant, real-time transfers of funds from their commercial bank accounts to accounts in other banks via LankaPay-CEFTS. [10]
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Union Bank of Colombo; Source: Central Bank, March 2021 [1] Licensed Specialised Banks ... Sri Lanka Savings Bank;
Commercial bank unveiled the online banking procedure to the customers in 2000. [17] In 2016, the bank launched Sri Lanka's first ever remittance card in order to ease the process of transferring funds from overseas to local beneficiaries. [18] The bank also launched Sri Lanka's first ever fully-automated cheque deposit machine in 2018. [19]
The Sri Lanka Interbank Payment System, commonly known as SLIPS, is a LKR-only online interbank payment and fund transfer system in Sri Lanka. [1] [2]SLIPS is owned by LankaClear, an organization owned by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and all Licensed Commercial Banks operating in Sri Lanka, with 47.19% of shares held by the CBSL and State owned commercial banks, and 52.81% by other private banks.
The Sri Lankan banking industry was changed during the late 1980s with the introduction of automation by private banking corporations. [10] Previously, few foreign banks were operating within Sri Lanka with few branches such as Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, etc. HSBC was using interactive electronic customer interfaces such as automated teller machines (ATMs).
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka was established in 1950, two years after independence. The founder governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka was John Exter, while the minister of finance at the time was J. R. Jayewardene. Under the former name of Central Bank of Ceylon, it replaced the Currency Board that until then had been responsible for ...
John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is a Sri Lankan multinational conglomerate company. It has business interests in hotels and resorts management, port, marine fuel and logistics services, IT services, manufacturing of food and beverages, supermarkets, tea, stock broking, life insurance, banking, and real estate.