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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]
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 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 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 Citizens Development Business Finance was incorporated as a public limited company on 7 September 1995 and it is listed at the Colombo Stock Exchange. [5] The company is licensed by the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka under the Finance Business Act no 42 of 2011. As of 2019, the company has about 71 branches across the country.
Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC is a public limited company incorporated in Sri Lanka.The bank currently has 85 branches across Sri Lanka. A public limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka on 6 March 1995 under the Companies Act No. 17 of 1982 and re-registered under the Companies Act No.07 of 2007.
Licensed Specialised Banks. Housing Development Finance Corporation Bank of Sri Lanka (HDFC) National Savings Bank. Regional Development Bank (Pradheshiya Sanwardhana Bank) Sanasa Development Bank. Sri Lanka Savings Bank. State Mortgage and Investment Bank.
Sampath Bank. Sampath Bank PLC (Sinhala: සම්පත් බැංකුව, romanized: sampat bæṁkuva) is a licensed commercial bank incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1987 with 229 branches and 373 ATMs island-wide. It has won the "Bank of the Year" award by The Banker of Financial Times Limited – London, for two consecutive years, and the ...