National Savings Bank

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Type
State Owned Enterprise
Industry
Banking and Finance

NSB is a state-owned savings bank in Sri Lanka. It operates in four quintessential segments: Retail banking, Corporate, International Banking and Treasury. Its Retail banking segment provides a full range of products: savings accounts, term deposits, mortgages, personal loans, small business lending, and everyday financial and investment advice. Corporate banking comprises corporate lending, multiple finance, loan syndication, and debt origination as well as risk management products. It offers sources of funding to large corporations, banks, financial institutions, and their subsidiaries as well as state-owned enterprises. Thirdly, the International banking segment offers an array of solutions in relation to foreign currency, engaging activities of foreign currency deposits, inward and outward remittances, foreign currency exchange, issuance of import letter of credit, handling of import bills, and issuance of shipping and air freight guarantees. Treasury and dealing segment engages in investment in Government Securities, equities, FX, repo borrowings, and reverse repo lending. It also carries out fund raising activities through debentures and bonds based on the liquidity requirement of the Bank. It was incorporated in Ceylon in 1971.

ROA
0.9
Governance
79.2
Profits/Losses
LKR 10,821,118

Governance Indicators

A systematic measure of how well this SOE is managed.

2020

Year of the most recent Annual Report available online

2

Have Annual Reports for the last five years been tabled in Parliament?

2

Does the Annual Report include the mandatory provisions set out in the PED guidelines?

0

Is the Audit Clean / Qualified / Disclaimer?

1

Is the information pertaining to the RTI officer available on the website?

0

Does the SOE respond to an RTI within the timeframe specified in the Act?

1

Does the SOE have a website?

2

Does the SOE website contain sufficient organtisational details?

0

Does the SOE website contain tender and procurement details?

Annual Report
Auditing Standards
Rights to Information
Accessibility of Information

Interpretation of the indicators

Good
2
Average
1
Bad
0

Financials

Available Financial data for the last few years.

Year Turnover (LKR) Total Assets Profit/Loss Total Debt Total Liabilities Total Equity Operational Profits ROA
2020
130,039,494
1,383,220,728
10,821,118 Data Not Available
1,325,771,311
57,449,417
20,797,931
0.8
2019
125,810,171
1,051,316,155
9,029,972 Data Not Available
1,127,740,523
47,834,222
18,486,964
0.8
2018
112,760,454
1,051,953,560
4,500,187 Data Not Available
1,007,198,076
44,755,484
11,181,397
0.4
2017
108,055,746
1,018,794,797
9,050,147 Data Not Available
977,528,332
41,266,465
17,235,951
0.9
2016
88,038,610
921,603,453
9,562,282 Data Not Available
887,816,665
33,786,788
16,208,850
1.1
2015
79,890,224
856,484,208
8,832,232 Data Not Available
822,425,532
34,058,676
15,747,011
1.1

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