Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka (MBSL) was incorporated as an Investment Bank in March 1982. Later the company was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 1991. Initially the Bank provided financial consultancy services, corporate advisory services and IPO services to large and medium businesses. In addition they were pioneers in Intermediating Investment Underwriting and Management. Also they actively participate in Capital Market activities catering to both local and global clients as well.
MBSL is also a registered finance leasing company, later introduced 24 Hour leasing Services to the Sri Lankan Leasing Market for the first time. MBSL is a subsidiary of Bank of Ceylon which holds 72.5% of their total share capital.
In 2012 MBSL celebrated its 30th successful year and they came up with the 30x30 concept. Overnight 16 Branches were opened and this was a highlighting incident that took the attention of the Financial Sector companies which reminded them that still MBSL is active in the market.
MBSL Group consist of few subsidiaries and associates. MBSL Savings Bank Limited was a main subsidiary of MBSL which was acquired in 2009 from the Ceylinco group. This company was incorporated on 14th August 1996. The subsidiary was
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The country is resourced with a high literacy level of nearly 93% which helped the nation build a skilled labour market in recent years ((World Bank). More than 67% of the country’s population is in between 15yrs to 64yrs which resulted in having a big labour force in the country (Statistics Department, 2013). Availability of educated and skilled labour resulted in not having any doubt of having the right people for the right job for many industries including banking industry. Chemistry between the rapid development of financial sector (post war) and availability of large number of skilled labour indicated the chances of further development in the industry in the years to
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