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EVOLUTION AND GROWTH OF PREMIER BANK IN SRI LANKA BANK OF CEYLON TO UNPARALLELED TOWERING ELEVATION IN STATURE – by Sunil Thenabadu<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"EVOLUTION<\/p>\n

\"Sunil-Thenabadu\"The prestigious Bank of Ceylon the country\u2019s Number one bank ceremonially celebrated eighty three years anniversary in\u00a0rock solid robust existence at the historic \u2018City Office\u201d\u00a0 fully refurbished building premises on August 1st<\/sup>\u00a0graced by the Chairman Kanchana Ratwatte, General Manager KED Sumanasiri, additional General Manager Russel Fonseka, members of the corporate and executive management and other distinguished guests including long standing valued clients. Bank of Ceylon solely own the city office building which is one of the most historical buildings in Fort area recognised by the department of archaeology .The Bank of Ceylon takes pride in maintaining this building for over eight decades\u00a0preserving the historical values for the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In year 1938 \u00a0August 1st<\/sup>\u00a0Ceylon then Sri Lanka a British colony,\u00a0 the Governor Sir Andrew Caldercott who ritualistically opened Bank of Ceylon\u00a0 as the first native state assisted bank to finance local industrialists and entrepreneurs, who were destitute of much desirable coffers. Sir Ernest de Silva was the initial Chairman etched in gold in history of the bank. Ascending from the universal qualms and competitive tasks in socio-monetary events has to date 628 branches scattered all over the island with 689 automated teller machines (ATM\u2019s) to be the foremost commercial bank in the island despite an extremely competitive challenges with other banks. The next branch was in Kandy opened in year 1949,soon thereafter in London.The first Sri Lanka General Manager was Chelliah Loganathan appointed in year 1953 who served as the GM and CEO until the year 1969 having piloted the bank to an unprecedented pinnacle. It was during his tenure in year 1962 minister of trade, commerce and shipping TB Ilangaratne who took stringent to nationalise the bank.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently afford the large clientele across the globe a prompt service round the clock each day with a branch at head office opened all twenty four hours. There is a call centre from which information on accounts and all details could\u00a0 be verified also round the day by calling 0011941122044444.The B App when downloaded could assist in transacting any financial transaction and to verify all details. All obstacles in the repercussion of the \u2018Covid-19\u2019virus related pandemic, hurdled triumphantly sans inconveniencing the large clientele. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am Sunil Thenabadu who\u00a0 dedicated 34 years of my\u00a0 working life retiring prematurely at fifty five years on health issues to the magnificence and triumph of the prime, novel Bank of Ceylon with a universal existence, considering it opportune and fitting to discourse the courtesy of all its shareholders- viz. the government, esteemed clienteles, bank staff, trade unions and the community at large. Towards such a conclusion, I wish to emphasise momentarily with the bank\u2019s past prominence a few of its inimitable routines and triumphs predominantly through grim epochs, by\u00a0 lent capital on its rank as the unsurpassed universally esteemed, local bank in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While serving its drives over monetary mediation, the bank\u2019s deposits and advances ranges cultivated progressively\u00a0\u00a0 with\u00a0 the mounting\u00a0 trade economy in\u00a0 export and import wealth as such, the then management of\u00a0 BOC opened a Branch in London in 1949. With such symbols of rewarding evolution, there was no challenge even after the country\u2019s liberation in 1948 to nationalize the Bank of Ceylon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"EVOLUTION<\/p>\n

\nHowever, due to a major swing in monetary strategies, BOC was nationalised as a state-owned bank in year 1961 united with defensive guidelines against foreign banks forming an imprisoned marketplace for state-owned banks. Subsequently, the bank in the early seventies was demanded to extend its services to the rural areas by opening over three hundred island wide Agricultural Service Centre (ASC) branches under an pioneering \u2018mixed banking\u2019 prototype with view to help farmers in rural areas . It assuredly prolonged the bank\u2019s affiliation with the laypeople as its patrons. In executing this replica, the bank familiarised a abundance of varied credit schemes with refinance conveniences from the Central Bank and other credit lines.This was a boost, from international funding agencies such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to uplift the economy of the rural farmers, small and medium entrepreneurs as well as self-employed craftsperson in the semi-urban sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The commencement of the era of the \u2018open economy\u2019 in the late seventies, Sri Lanka\u2019s financial market was relaxed permitting the re-entry of foreign banks creating a ferocious rivalry specifically in viable and global banking. During the decades of eighties and nineties, the bank retorted successfully to the mounting encounters in a speedily fluctuating global atmosphere, by familiarising pioneering products such as credit cards, ATM\/debit cards, in a fully computerized atmosphere implementing apt promotion and human resource expansion policies. The bank also enlarged its perspectives and opened overseas branches in Chennai, Karachi, Male and a joint venture bank in Nepal.Also in year 2015 signed a memorandum of understanding with bank of Tokyo -Mitsubhishi. Aided by a robust balance sheet and financial performance, the bank was ranked tall by international rating bureaus making it a respected borrower in the international financial markets on behalf of the govt. of Sri Lanka too. BOC was the first local bank that ranked among in to the top 1,000 banks in the world as per the routine assessments performed by the reputed UK magazine \u2018The Banker\u2019 had maintained the status quo to date. The recognition of the bank by a sturdy universal web of over 900 correspondent banks continued to accelerate its international banking processes to the gigantic aid of the country\u2019s exporter and importer\u00a0 traders. In review, the bank\u2019s concept of being \u2018The Bankers to the Nation with a international presence\u2019 at the time, was acceptably accomplished by the above-mentioned routines\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is significant, that in addition to being the banker to the millions of the population in all walks of life, through its Island wide network of\u00a0 six hundred and twenty eight branches, the BOC became the related banker to the government as well.This is aptly proved when USA imposed an prohibition on Iran in 1980, the BOC drawing on its vigorous international upright standing was the only bank to continue to negotiate letters of credit for tea shipments to Iran for its clienteles successively and for other banks\u2019 customers too, trusting on pledges by Iran\u2019s \u201cCentral Bank\u201d, of payments inclusive of interest for interruption, and save the country\u2019s economy while avoiding a flop of our tea industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On another occasion when ships refused to come to Sri Lanka after LTTE bombed the Colombo harbour, the BOC portraying\u00a0 on its International appreciation, organised a Lloyd\u2019s Insurance agreement within three working days\u00a0 cementing the way for shipments sans interruption and kept the country animated. On instances as above, BOC was and to date is, the only bank operating in Sri Lanka that possesses the drive and the \u2018risk taking ability\u2019 to crack at short notice for the benefit of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BOC\u2019s active involvement as the \u2018Bankers to the Nation\u2019 and the government during the two past revolutions and the tsunami, is no mystery to the public and the security forces were reassured by the constant arrangements made by the bank to receive their salaries without any delays. With the beginning of the new millennium, the bank\u2019s vision was reviewed to read as \u2018to be the No. 01 Bank in Sri Lanka and to be recognized as such by the general public\u2019. Accordingly, the bank had kept phase with the rapid changes in technology and familiarised customer centric pioneering products such as \u2018SLIPS\u2019, SMS Banking, Internet Banking , Smart Banking etc. Succeeding BOC managements and staff have regularly endeavoured to retain BOC\u2019s place as the No. 01 Bank in Sri Lanka. In the progression, the bank has now grown its network up to 2,000 local customer touch points with customers displaying a momentous swing from manual banking to digital banking devices such as B-app, Smart Pay, and Online Banking etc. The bank also strengthened its global presence by opening a new branch in Seychelles and a second branch in Hulhumale \u2013 Maldives. As a result of the said triumphs, the bank won Sri Lanka\u2019s No. 01 Banking Brand and No.01 Bank Awards for the last 12 years in a sequence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is pertinent to mention that, with the blessings and support of the successive governments, the bank when necessary, executed a series of reorganization\/re-engineering\/restructuring exercises with the aid of prominent foreign consultancies, to attain this continuous farfetched growth perhaps towards\u00a0 targeting achieving BOC\u2019s Centenary Vision in year 2039.Presently, BOC is rolling at an average level in regard to its global existence led by its fully owned subsidiary in London and supported by branches in Chennai, Maldives and Seychelles. With its supplementary illustrative presence in the Middle East and South\/East Asia, the BOC\u2019s Vision-2039 plans a \u2018Global Model\u2019 providing a variety of tailor-made banking resolutions to a established international customer base without bargaining its current pledge towards elating of the unbanked segments of the local society involved in agriculture, fisheries and related self-employment in the small and medium sectors. Thus, BOC\u2019s Vision -2039 would be a global concept for the country too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"EVOLUTION<\/p>\n

The predicted progress of the Colombo Port City as a \u2018Regional Financial Hub\u2019 in close range to the iconic BOC head office with \u2018Heritage\u2019 likely as \u2018Jaathiye Maha Pahan Temba\u2019 , will provide a evident, royal prominence to BOC as the foremost bank\u00a0 similar to in all other big cities of the world. It will not only stand in moral place with the varying prospect but also will render BOC with the much desirable tactical benefit to link its head office with all banking activities at the Port City ventures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTowards this end, in addition to Central Bank guidelines, we have proposed that a fresh \u2018Agreement\u2019 be entered into between the Govt. and the BOC, inter-alia permitting the requisite autonomy to the bank to conduct its business like any other private commercial bank conforming to prudential banking rules\u00a0 and other international norms that stand upon its ratings by celebrated International evaluation agencies. Such action will surely prop up BOC\u2019s footstep in the route of its centenary Vision-2039 , ensure achieving\u00a0 of government\u2019s own goal of a prosperous Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunil Thenabadu in Brisbane<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

e mail<\/strong>\u00a0sthenabadu@hotmail.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

WhatsApp<\/strong> 0061444533242\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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