The Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently hosted the Bank’s top customers and business partners in the United Arab Emirates, a country with an expatriate Sri Lankan population estimated at 300,000.
Popular Sri Lankan artistes Bhathiya, Santhush and Umaria provided entertainment for this event titled ‘Combank Elite Night’at the LiwaMajlis Ballroom of the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi.
The Bank was represented by a team that included Deputy General Manager Personal Banking Mrs Sandra Walgama, Chief Manager Travel Ms Kelum Amarasinghe and Chief Manager Remittances Mr Pradeep Banduwansa.
UAE is the one of the biggest markets for worker remittances, In recognition of which Commercial Bank has appointed 23 direct agents in the emirate and placed four Business Promotion Officers in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Shajah and Ajman.
Commercial Bank is one of the most active players in Sri Lanka in the field of remittances, offering customers a range of options including ‘e-Exchange’ – the Bank’s own sophisticated real-time on-line money transfer service, as well as the MoneyGram, Ria and Express Money remittance services.
One of the Bank’s key strengths is its island-wide network of 256 branches, many of which remain open on public, bank and mercantile holidays, and its network of 658 ATMs. Recipients of remittances sent to the Bank enjoy many benefits such as over 65 holiday banking centres and super market counters, a dedicated customer support call centre for remittances and SMS alerts facilities once the remittance is received and is ready to be paid out.
The only Sri Lankan bank to be ranked among the Top 1000 banks of the world for six years consecutively, Commercial Bank has won multiple awards as Sri Lanka’s Best Bank, Best Trade Bank, Strongest Bank, Most Respected Bank from a number of local and international institutions and publications over several years and has also been adjudged one of Sri Lanka’s 10 best corporate citizens by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce for several years.
Commercial Bank’s overseas operations encompass Bangladesh, where the Bank operates 18 outlets, Myanmar, where it has a Representative Office in Yangon, the Maldives, where the Bank opened a fully-fledged Tier I Bank in September 2016 and Italy, where the Bank established its fully own subsidiary for Global money transfer service in November 2016.
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Photo Caption: (Above) Commercial Bank’s Deputy General Manager – Personal Banking Mrs Sandra Walgama speaks at the ‘Elite Night’ hosted by the Bank in Abu Dhabi and (Below) some of the guests and representatives of the Bank at the event.
Photo Caption: (Above) Commercial Bank’s Deputy General Manager – Personal Banking Mrs Sandra Walgama speaks at the ‘Elite Night’ hosted by the Bank in Abu Dhabi and (Below) some of the guests and representatives of the Bank at the event.