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News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: Sri Lanka’s Central Asia Gambit

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/sri-lankas-central-asia-gambit/

Published on: Thursday 29 August 2024

Panelists attend the Central Asia Forum 2024 organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, together with the Geopolitical Cartographer, at the Granbell Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug.

News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: Alipay+ Is Now Enabled in Sri Lanka

News channel or source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250326868333/en/Alipay-Is-Now-Enabled-in-Sri-Lanka/

Published on: Tuesday 25 March 2025

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LankaPay - Sri Lanka’s National Payment Network - announced their partnership with Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial ...

News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: Sri Lanka's central bank expects economy to grow by 4.5% in 2025

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/sri-lankas-central-bank-expects-economy-to-grow-by-45-in-2025/ar-AA1Kzmof

Published on: Thursday 14 August 2025

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's economy will grow by 4.5% this year, the central bank said in a monetary policy report on Friday, despite some risks to the island nation's recovery from U.S. tariffs.

News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: Sri Lanka's central bank holds rate to support economic recovery

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/sri-lanka-central-bank-holds-rate-support-growth-rebound-2025-03-26/

Published on: Tuesday 25 March 2025

Overnight policy rate held at 8%, as expected Inflation expected to return to positive territory mid-year Central bank doesn't see big impact from US tariff moves COLOMBO, March 26 (Reuters) - Sri ...

News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: Weerasinghe returns to Sri Lanka’s central bank as country’s finances spiral

News channel or source: https://www.euromoney.com/article/29ysr0stj6ahx53qvpuyp/banking/weerasinghe-returns-to-sri-lankas-central-bank-as-countrys-finances-spiral/

Published on: Wednesday 13 April 2022

With civil unrest, the resignation of half the cabinet and a standstill on sovereign debt repayment, Sri Lanka’s new finance minister, secretary to the treasury and governor of the Central Bank of Sri ...

News Sri Lanka » Central » Commerce: How Low Taxes Drove Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and Squandered its Education Lead

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/10/14/tax-giveaways-struggling-schools/how-low-taxes-drove-sri-lankas-economic-crisis

Published on: Monday 13 October 2025

Susikala was working as a daily wage earner at a flower garden in Hatton, a hilly area in central Sri Lanka, when in April 2022 the government defaulted on its debt. The default sent the economy into ...