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Central Bank of Sri Lanka Promotes Digital Payments in Dambulla

Continuing its Digital Payments Promotion Campaign of 2025, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has organized a promotional event on 1st and 2nd of August 2025 from 9.30 am to 7.00 pm at the Dambulla Dedicated Economic Centre with the participation of Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, the Governor of CBSL, and other senior officials.

IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Sri Lanka

The economic reforms implemented by Sri Lankan authorities are bearing fruit, with growth outperforming, inflation progressing to target, external reserves accumulating, and fiscal revenues improving.

Sustaining the reform momentum is critical to safeguarding macroeconomic stability, entrenching the recovery, and building Sri Lanka’s resilience to shocks amid trade policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka keeps the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) unchanged

The Monetary Policy Board decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at the current level of 7.75% at its meeting held yesterday. The Board arrived at this decision after carefully considering both domestic and global developments. The Board is of the view that the current monetary policy stance will help steer inflation towards the target of 5% in the period ahead while supporting growth.

Financial Intelligence Unit of Sri Lanka entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Center for Financial Information in the Sultanate of Oman

The Financial Intelligence Unit of Sri Lanka (FIU-Sri Lanka) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Center for Financial Information in the Sultanate of Oman (NCFI-Oman) on July 09, 2025, during the 31st Plenary of the Egmont Group, held in Luxembourg. This MOU facilitates the exchange of financial intelligence related to money laundering (ML), associated predicate offences, and terrorist financing (TF), in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Transactions Reporting Act, No. 6 of 2006.

SL Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) – June 2025

Purchasing Managers’ Indices indicate improvements in both Manufacturing and Services activities in June 2025

Anti-Pyramid National Awareness Week - 14th to 18th July 2025

The Financial Consumer Relations Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka will launch the ‘Anti-Pyramid National Awareness Week’ from 14th to 18th July 2025 under the theme of: “Pyramid is a trap – don’t get into the wrong track.” 

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