The Communications Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, together with the Regional Offices of the Central Bank, conducted the written examination to select the 16 best school teams (in each medium, i.e. Sinhala and Tamil), for the contest ‘Econ Icon - Season IV’, the TV quiz programme, which will take place in 2019. The examination was held simultaneously at selected centres island-wide on 22^nd January 2019 where teams of A/L students from schools in each District participated. Given below are the names of schools whose teams were placed first in the respective District.

It has been reported to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) that a phishing attempt  has been initiated targeting mainly the financial institutions of Sri Lanka and the phishing emails appear to be sent from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Department of  CBSL with the subject “Notice From Central Bank Of Sri Lanka EPF". The content of the email was reported to be with links to malicious web sites and downloadable malicious software.

The CBSL wishes to inform the general public and institutions that the EPF Department  of CBSL has not  sent out such emails. The public and institutions are adviced  to be alert of this ongoing phishing attempt and  not  open suspicious emails with the subject “Notice From Central Bank Of Sri Lanka EPF" or open its  attachments or click  on any  of its links.