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Policy Rates
Policy Interest Rate and SRR Overnight Policy Rate Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) is the policy interest rate of the ...
admin - 23.05.2025 - 08:15
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Monetary Policy Instruments and Implementation
... policy instruments used currently are Overnight Policy Rate (OPR), Open Market Operations (OMO), Standing Facilities and the Statutory Reserve Requirement (SRR) on licensed commercial banks’ rupee deposit liabilities. ...
admin - 27.02.2025 - 10:20
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Domestic Operations - FAQs
... (OMOs) are used to influence the Average Weighted Call Money Rate (AWCMR), which affects the movements of other short-term interest rates, ... 300 basis points). What is the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR)? The SRR determines the minimum amount of reserves that each Licensed ...
conedit1 - 02.04.2025 - 16:08
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Monetary Policy Review - December 2015
... growth of broad money (M2b) continued to expand at a high rate of 17.0 per cent in October 2015 compared to 16.0 per cent recorded in ... on 30 December 2015, to raise the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) applicable to all rupee deposit liabilities of commercial banks by 1.50 ...
content_manager - 05.02.2019 - 14:56
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka Further Reduces the Statutory Reserve Ratio
... 16 June 2020, decided to reduce the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) applicable on all rupee deposit liabilities of licensed commercial banks ... by a total of 150 basis points and the reduction of the Bank Rate by 550 basis points. The financial sector is expected to pass the ...
content_manager - 17.06.2020 - 14:08
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Monetary Policy Review - January 2016
... Broad money supply (M2b) continued to expand at a high rate with a year-on-year growth of 17.2 per cent in November 2015, following ... the Central Bank increased the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) applicable on all rupee deposit liabilities of commercial banks by 1.50 ...
content_manager - 30.01.2019 - 16:07
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The Central Bank’s View on the Sector Comment on Sri Lankan Banks by Moody’s Investors Service
... Comment on Sri Lankan banks titled “Sri Lanka’s lending rate cut is credit negative for banks.” In this respect, the Central Bank of ... measures, the reduction in the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) by 2.50 percentage points in two steps has enabled licensed commercial ...
conedit1 - 03.10.2019 - 14:21
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Monetary Policy Review - April 2016
... monetary policy by raising the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) and policy interest rates, and that the impact of these measures is yet to ... and decided to maintain the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank ...
content_manager - 04.10.2018 - 09:52
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Monetary Policy Review - August 2016
... the pressure on the balance of payments and the exchange rate. Meanwhile, gross official reserves were estimated to have improved to US ... policy interest rates and the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) is being transmitted to the economy gradually. As such, the growth in ...
content_manager - 29.01.2018 - 09:50
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Monetary Policy Review - February 2016
... Bank’s decision to increase the Statutory Reserve Ratio (SRR) with effect from 16 January 2016 has permanently absorbed a part of excess ... Board decided to increase the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank ...
content_manager - 07.01.2019 - 10:59