ComBank Chairman graces Sri Lankan Chartered Accountants’ event in Kuwait

February 18, 2020 February 18, 2020

Chartered Accountants Kuwait Chapter President Mr Sanjeewa Senarathna and Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Kuwait Mr Mohammed Jauhar (Above, 2nd and 3rd from left respectively) present a plaque to Commercial Bank Chairman Mr Dharma Dheerasinghe in the presence of the Bank’s Head of Digital Banking Mr Pradeep Banduwansa (extreme left) and Head of Foreign Operations and Travels Ms Kelum Amarasinghe at the event in Kuwait and Mr Dheerasinghe (Below, extreme right) speaking at the event.

Commercial Bank of Ceylon Chairman Mr Dharma Dheerasinghe was the Chief Guest and keynote speaker at ‘New Horizons’ – a special programme organised by the Kuwait Chapter of Sri Lankan Chartered Accountants to promote Sri Lanka as a land of opportunities.

This honour was extended to the Bank’s Chairman as Kuwait takes pride of place as Commercial Bank’s top-most market for remittances.

The event hosted by the Kuwait Chapter, consisting of Sri Lankan Chartered Accountants working in several top organisations in Kuwait, saw the participation of over 120 guests including Chartered Accountants and other high profile Sri Lankan professionals such as doctors, engineers, quantity surveyors, and bankers, in addition to business partners of Commercial Bank.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon began its remittance operations in Kuwait in 2003 with the launch of the online Remittance Service platform ‘ComBank e-Exchange,’ a real-time money transfer service which was a pioneering effort by a Sri Lankan bank.

The Bank has also placed Business Promotion Officers in Kuwait since 2003 to serve the large Sri Lankan work force in this market. Additionally, the Bank was instrumental in launching a remittance app in December 2019 branded ‘RemitPlus’ which enables those who use the its remittance service to conveniently access remittance-related information and services.

The only Sri Lankan Bank to be ranked among the world’s top 1000 banks for nine years consecutively, Commercial Bank operates a network of 268 branches and 865 ATMs in Sri Lanka. The Bank has won over 50 international and local awards in 2019.

Commercial Bank’s overseas operations encompass Bangladesh, where the Bank operates 19 outlets; Myanmar, where it has a Representative Office in Yangon and a Microfinance company in Nay PyiTaw; and the Maldives, where the Bank has a fully-fledged Tier I Bank with a majority stake.