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History

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  • 1957 : Chartered Bank (another British overseas bank; see below) acquired Eastern Bank but ran it separately.

  • 1961 : The Government of Ceylon forbade foreign banks to accept deposits from Ceylonese nationals.

  • ’s branches in Kandy , Galle and Jaffna as part of a deal that would remove the government’s limit on deposit taking in Mercantile’s remaining branches in Colombo and Pettah . The branches actually transferred in 1973 . ( HSBC had acquired Mercantile in 1959 .)

  • 1971 : Eastern bank amalgamated with Chartered Bank.

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  • 1997 : Standard Chartered divested itself of its 40% stake in CBC. DFCC Bank (ex-Development Finance Corporation of Ceylon) acquired 29.5%.

  • 's two branches in Bangladesh at Dhaka and Chittagong to become the first Sri Lankan bank to establish operations outside the country. Banque Indosuez had opened its branches in 1980.




NOTABLES

The late Hon. Justice Manicavasagar, Former Chancellor of The University of Jaffna. A very prominent man in society, he was also Chairmen of the commercial bank, and received the Sri lankan National Award by President Junius Richard Jayewardene.


REFERENCES

Green, E., and S. Kinsey. 1999. ''The Paradise Bank'' (Aldershot: Ashgate).


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