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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 ... include the reduction of the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank ...
mohanan - 25.09.2019 - 08:37
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Credit Support to Accelerate Economic Growth
... Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL). Accordingly, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) issued a Circular providing guidelines for ... facility should be repaid over five years at an interest rate equal to maximum of Average Weighted Prime Lending Rate (AWPR) plus 1.5% ...
conedit1 - 11.02.2020 - 08:56
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Public Debt Management
Public Debt Management The Central Bank maintained Sri Lanka’s impeccable record of timely debt service payments ... was mobilised from the domestic money market by the Central Bank on behalf of the government to meet debt service requirements as well as ... to around Rs. 110 billion arising from maximum yield rate of acceptance announced for T-bills for the period from March to 05th ...
conedit1 - 22.09.2020 - 14:41
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Proposed additional incentive scheme for expatriate workers’ remittances and exporters to be rescinded
As a result of the decision of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to allow flexibility in the exchange rate, the exchange rate seems to have now reached a level surpassing the level ...
tmadmin - 19.03.2022 - 18:19
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Monetary Policy Review - No. 8 of 2017
... to maintain the policy interest rates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka at their present levels. However, the Central Bank will ... from the implementation of a more flexible exchange rate regime. However, the trade deficit widened during the first ten months of ...
content_manager - 27.01.2018 - 14:42
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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 (NBFIs) to reduce interest rates on deposits with ... banks and NBFIs were based on the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) whilst longer tenures were based on the 364 day Treasury bill rate. ...
conedit4 - 22.07.2019 - 14:21
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Monetary Policy Review - No. 1 of 2018
... to maintain the policy interest rates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka at their present levels. The decision of the Monetary ... in the international market and the flexible exchange rate policy maintained by the Central Bank. However, drought related imports ...
content_manager - 09.10.2018 - 09:45
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External Debt and Reserves - Need to identify not only borrowings but also the debt repayments in analyzing how gross official reserves were utilized
... of borrowings by the government were absorbed to Central Bank reserves during 2015-2018, the article provides no consideration on the ... misleading to compare the cost of borrowing with the rate of return on investing the reserve portfolio, as the main motive of ...
conedit1 - 24.05.2018 - 10:00
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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 ... 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
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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 licensed specialized banks (licensed banks) and Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) despite the measures taken to bring down ... and NBFIs will be linked to the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) whilst longer tenures will be linked to the 364 day Treasury bill ...
conedit1 - 03.05.2019 - 15:59