COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's headline inflation is expected to peak around 2 percentage points above the central bank's ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will present his first budget on Monday to outline how the island nation plans to strengthen its recovery from a financial crisis. The budget is seen ...

Earlier in the day, Sri Lanka’s central bank held key policy rate steady to underpin a stronger economic recovery, as the country gradually pulls ahead from its worst financial crisis in decades.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the People’s Bank of China, in December 2024, successfully renewed the Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement signed in 2021, for a period of another three (03) years, ...

A High-Level Task Force on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) and Preparations for Sri Lanka’s Third Mutual Evaluation on AML/CFT Framework has been appointed, ...

While Hawala and Undial are not illegal in Sri Lanka, their lack of regulation has drawn concern due to risks of money laundering and terrorist financing. The Central Bank (CB) has highlighted issues ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank has mopped up 900 billion rupees of liquidity in 2024, operating broadly deflationary policy, building foreign reserves and providing below 2 percent inflation ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is seeing new entrants and products in several markets with the central bank helping drive down costs with currency stability, a top player in fast moving consumer goods, ...

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