
A trading halt was imposed on the market at 12.07 p.m. today following a technical failure of a Broker back-office system provider which was brought to the attention of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE).

Stax Inc., a leading global management consulting firm, observes that delaying digitization during this pandemic era would present substantial drawbacks for Sri Lankan companies as they would lack the capacity to compete globally.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has moved up to second place in the latest ‘LMD 100’ after a solid performance in 2019-20 saw the Bank achieving the No 2 spot in the two principal rankings – Turnover and Profit – to reaffirm its position as one of the country’s strongest business entities.

When it comes to business, the line between success and failure is often paper-thin, and this line has only gotten thinner with the arrival of the Pandemic which completely disrupted the economic landscape of the world.

Atlas Axillia, Sri Lanka’s largest and most reputed manufacturer and marketer of stationery and school supplies, walked away with the prestigious ‘CSR Brand of the Year - Bronze’ award for the Atlas SipSavi programme at the SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2020 held on 22nd January 2021.

Sunshine Healthcare Lanka (SHL), the healthcare arm of the diversified conglomerate Sunshine Holdings PLC (CSE: SUN), officially commenced the operations of its subsidiary, Lina Spiro (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka’s first Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) manufacturing plant in Kadawatha today.

Sri Lankan entrepreneur Sesiri Pathirane, Co-founder of The London Institute of Business & Technology (LIBT), recently announced the launch of the world's first ever ‘College-As- A-Service’ platform successfully adopting principles of ‘Software-As-A-Service’ or SAAS into higher education.

Findit.lk, a leading promotion and business directory website in Sri Lanka has emerged victorious at SLIM DIGIS 2.0 held recently at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike International Memorial hall.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon extended its wholehearted support to the Colombo launch last weekend of the Central Bank’s initiative to promote cashless digital payments via LANKAQR, the national Quick Response (QR) Code platform.

As the world trends on urbanization and nutrition, shifting gears with the new realities presented to us, Sri Lanka is demonstrating promising new energy in the agri-food innovation sectors.