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Sampath Bank Moves Ahead Steadily to Prove its Ability to Withstand Strong Headwinds
Harsha Amarasekera, Chairman, Sampath Bank and Nanda Fernando, MD, Sampath Bank. Amidst widespread economic uncertainty during 2022, Sampath Bank maintained a...
The U.S. and China Account For 50% of the World’s Household Wealth
There are several ways of measuring a country’s prosperity. One way is to look at the distribution of household wealth. The...
What are the Origins of Cannabis?
A wild cannabis plant in Qinghai province, central China. ©Guangpeng Ren For years it’s generally been accepted that cannabis first...
Twitter’s Global Market Share Grows by 55% in 2022 While Facebook Loses 12%
November 9, 2022 Justinas Baltrusaitis. Social media giant Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has recently recorded a gradual increase in its market share,...
Tech Companies Laid off 120,000 Employees in 2022
November 15, 2022 Jastra Kranjec. Last week, Meta Platforms joined the tech industry’s growing list of layoffs after letting go...
Group Chairman SLT Proposes Four Fundamental Policies to Transform Loss-making SOEs
Rohan Fernando, Group Chairman, SLT. While selling assets may be the easiest solution to ward off the national crisis Sri Lanka currently...
Market Cap of the Big Five Tech Giants Slumped by $1.5T in Less than a Month
Investors have turned their backs on tech stocks after a series of disappointing results from the biggest names in the...
Business Today Top 40 2021-2022
Giving Lessons in Dexterity and Resilience Business Today TOP 40 2021-2022 recognizes the top corporate performers who reported positive financial growth...
Recovery of Costs Through User-Pay is Better Rather than Making Exporters and Private Sector Employees Pay Higher Taxes
Damien Fernando The highest rate for employee income is now increased from 18% to 36%. The revenue planners of this...
Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing Partners with Dialog Enterprise
Navin Pieris, Group Chief Officer, Dialog Enterprise, Dialog Axiata with Amitha Amarasinghe, Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Institute of Digital...
SLT-Mobitel Visits Northern Province To Understand Community Aspirations
Rohan Fernando, Group Chairman; Lalith Seneviratne, Group CEO; and SLT team during the visit to the North. Taking pride in...
HNB Ranked Amongst the Top 1,000 World Banks for Sixth Consecutive Year
HNB was ranked among the Top 1,000 World Banks for the sixth consecutive year by Banker Magazine. Jonathan Alles, Managing...
Interim Budget Speech 2022
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. Amendment to the Appropriation Act, No. 30 of 2021 August 30, 2022...
Dazzling in the Colorful and Contradictory Life of Politics
Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows. One-time SJB stalwart and vocal government critic, Minister of Tourism and Lands Harin Fernando, is...
Art of a Deal
To say that Wajira Abeywardana is a diehard UNPer is an understatement. Green, it seems, runs in his veins. With...
Freebies will prevent the country from becoming self-reliant, increase burden on honest taxpayers: Prime Minister Modi
Prime Minister Modi. Namaskar!Governor of Haryana Shri Bandaru Dattatreya ji, my cabinet colleagues Narendra Singh Tomar ji, Hardeep Singh Puri...
Speech by President Ranil Wickremesinghe
Ceremonial opening of the third session of the Ninth Parliament under the auspices of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. August 3, 2022 President...
The Political Centrist
Thusitha Halloluwa has donned many hats in his long political career. Rather not the typical politician but more a ‘cornerman’...
HNB Expands its ‘Walk the Talk’ initiative to World Bicycle Day
Jonathan Alles, MD/CEO, HNB (far right) and Dilshan Rodrigo, Executive Director/COO, HNB (center), with Head Office staff members participating in...
A Man on a Mission
Sepal Amarasinghe Not everyone is a good communicator like Sepal Amarasinghe, presenter extraordinaire who is no stranger in Sri Lanka’s...
The Future of the Gig Economy
Transcribed by: Jennifer Paldano Goonewardane. Speakers: S Alyson Shontell Lombardi, Karien van Gennip, Eynat Guez, Niklas Östberg, Sharan Burrow Around...
HNB Honored by Asian Banker as Best Retail Bank in Sri Lanka for 2022
Jonathan Alles, Managing Director/CEO, HNB. Sanjay Wijemanne, DGM – Retail and SME Banking, HNB. Hatton National Bank has been recognized...
Sampath Bank successfully navigates the challenging economic environment
Harsha Amarasekera, Chairman, Sampath Bank. (left)Nanda Fernando, Managing Director, Sampath Bank. (right) Backed by its solid capital base and prudent...
17. Ceylinco Insurance
Left: A.R. Gunawardena, Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer. Right: R. Renganathan, Non - Executive Deputy Chairman Despite the immense challenges during the year, Ceylinco Insurance...
Sampath Bank Introduces Visa Corporate Fuel Card
Sampath Bank announced the Sampath Visa Corporate Fuel Card launch in prepaid card and credit card formats to empower businesses...
Ready for the Future
IFS, A Swedish-based multinational, established its operations in Sri Lanka in 1997, where the company identified opportunities and invested during...
Mobitel Supports Department of Archaeology
Mobitel, mobile service provider donated face masks to the Department of Archaeology as part of its CSR initiative. This endeavor...
WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY
Mahinda Karunaratne, Founder/Chairman of Karunaratne and Sons has traversed on a path of hard work, commitment and always trusting his...
Seylan Tikiri Month For The Sixth Consecutive Year
In commemoration of World Children’s Day 2019, Seylan Bank, for the sixth consecutive year celebrated ‘Seylan Tikiri Chil-dren’s Month.’ With...