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Measures to reduce lending rates and drive credit flows to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Sector
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka requested licensed banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions ... enabling licensed banks to reduce their interest rates on lending products in general, and to SMEs in particular, and thereby enhance ... NBFIs. The Average Weighted Prime Lending Rate of licensed commercial banks has also reduced by 127 basis points from 12.24% as at 26 ...
conedit4 - 22.07.2019 - 14:21
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Measures to Reduce Lending Rates and Drive Credit Flows to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Sector
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has observed high interest rates charged on lending products and excessively high interest rates offered on deposit products by licensed commercial banks and licensed specialized banks (licensed banks) and Non-Bank ...
conedit1 - 03.05.2019 - 15:59
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Enhancing Efficiency of the Transmission of Recent Policy Decisions to Market Lending Rates
Over the past eleven months, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has taken a number of monetary and regulatory policy measures ... (SRR) applicable on rupee deposit liabilities of Licensed Commercial Banks (LCBs) by 2.50 percentage points that released around Rs. 150 ...
mohanan - 25.09.2019 - 08:37
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Measures to Reduce Interest Rates, Enhance Market Liquidity & Finance the Government
... in the context of a low inflation environment. The Central Bank provided ample liquidity to the market at reduced and concessional ... Ratio (SRR) on all rupee deposit liabilities of licensed commercial banks (LCBs) was reduced by 1.00 percentage point to 4.00 per cent. ...
conedit1 - 22.09.2021 - 15:33
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Economic Indicators
... Repo Transactions Market Interest Rates and Bank Rate Money Market Rates on Government Securities Commercial Banks Lending and Deposit Rates Bank Rate ...
admin - 27.11.2024 - 07:11
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Monetary Policy - FAQs
... Monetary policy is the process by which the central bank influences the cost (i.e., interest rate) and availability of money (i.e., ... the overnight unsecured transactions among Licensed Commercial Banks (LCBs) and it serves as the operating target of the CBSL’s ...
conedit1 - 27.02.2025 - 10:03
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka Maintains Policy Interest Rates Unchanged
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, at its meeting held on 10 May 2018, decided to maintain ... the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) remain at 7.25 per cent and 8.50 per cent, ... The growth of credit extended to the private sector by commercial banks hovered around the envisaged levels although a high seasonal ...
content_manager - 16.05.2018 - 08:52
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The Central Bank’s View on the Sector Comment on Sri Lankan Banks by Moody’s Investors Service
... credit negative for banks.” In this respect, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is of the view that the conclusion by Moody’s has not taken ... by 2.50 percentage points in two steps has enabled licensed commercial banks (LCBs) to invest additional funds amounting to around Rs. 150 ...
conedit1 - 03.10.2019 - 14:21
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Financial Markets
... Money market in Sri Lanka consists of; (i)Inter-Bank Call Money Market (ii)Treasury bill Market (iii)Domestic Foreign ... call money market is an overnight market that mainly assists commercial banks in meeting their immediate liquidity requirements by ...
admin - 04.11.2016 - 09:13
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Interbank Call money Market
Interbank Call money Market The inter-bank call money market is an overnight market that mainly assists commercial banks in meeting their immediate liquidity requirements by ...
admin - 15.06.2020 - 11:18