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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 - 02.01.2026 - 17:07
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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
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Special Data Dissemination Standard [SDDS]
... 2016 248,411 592,699 -58.1 Bank Rs. million 2016 139,955 291,841 -52.0 ... 252.6 293.5 -13.9 Claims on Commercial Banks Rs. billion Sep/17 4.4 3.8 17.1 ...
admin - 28.03.2018 - 08:09
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Domestic Operations - FAQs
... decisions made by the Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank to achieve the key objective of the Central Bank, i.e., domestic price ... to participate in Open Market Operations? All Licensed Commercial Banks (LCBs) operating in Sri Lanka are eligible to participate in ...
conedit1 - 02.04.2025 - 16:08
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Glossary
... to Credit (in BOS) Indicates the accessibility of bank credit during the current quarter ... market transactions (uncollateralised) between Licensed Commercial Banks (LCBs) on a given day, which is computed and published by the ... rupee time deposits held with LCBs. Average Weighted Lending Rate AWLR AWLR is based on interest rates of all outstanding ...
conedit1 - 02.04.2025 - 16:49
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Monetary Policy Instruments and Implementation
... Policy Instruments and Implementation The Central Bank possesses a wide range of tools to be used as instruments of monetary ... and the Statutory Reserve Requirement (SRR) on licensed commercial banks’ rupee deposit liabilities. Overnight Policy ...
admin - 27.02.2025 - 10:20
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka Introduces Measures to Reduce the Overdependence on the Standing Facilities
... At the same time, it has been observed that several Licensed Commercial Banks (LCBs) have continued to depend excessively on the overnight ... under Open Market Operations (OMOs) of the Central Bank without considering market based funding options to address their ...
conedit1 - 09.01.2023 - 08:59
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Monetary Policy Review - August 2016
... month of June 2016. Credit granted to the private sector by commercial banks continued to increase at a significantly high rate of 28.2 per ... to monetary tightening measures adopted by the Central Bank during the first seven months of the year, leading to a sharp upward ...
content_manager - 29.01.2018 - 09:50
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Monetary Policy Review - February 2016
... growth of credit granted to the private sector by commercial banks accelerated during the year, with a growth of 25.1 per cent in ... was at 4.2 per cent in December 2015. The Central Bank’s decision to increase the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) with effect ...
content_manager - 07.01.2019 - 10:59
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Monetary Policy Review - January 2016
... Meanwhile, credit extended to the private sector by commercial banks remained the key driver of broad money growth, recording an ... on inflation through excessive credit creation, the Central Bank increased the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) applicable on all rupee ...
content_manager - 30.01.2019 - 16:07