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Sri Lanka’s foreign currency debt default and economic crisis have put banks under tremendous pressure. Our panel discusses the crisis and how Sri Lanka’s ambitious Colombo Port City might shape the industry’s future.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is shaking the foundations of its banks which now face challenges on multiple fronts

Echelon’s Reboot Everything festival featured a discussion on the role of the state in business, featuring Thilan Wijesinghe and Daniel Alphonsus

Pooled in to a closed-ended fund Romania’s loss making state enterprises have since staged a remarkable turnaround generating dividends and privatisation proceeds to their owners.

Economic mismanagement, including its liberal money printing, has landed Sri Lanka’s economy in difficulty. In this round table discussion, two economists share ideas about how Sri Lanka might begin to unwind the stimulus that has landed it in trouble.

Former Central Bank Deputy Governor Dr W A Wijewardena weighs in on the Central Bank versus Currency Board debate, explaining the Central Bank's descent into its current predicament and the evolution of the unfolding economic crisis today.

Sri Lanka has increased taxes after its tax revenue plunged to 8% of GDP in 2021. However, these measures don’t go nearly far enough to fix Sri Lanka’s public finances

Getting rid of pointless rules and regulations can help businesses emerge from the shadows and grow. Our experts discuss what needs to be done.

Locked out of global financial markets and unable to rollover its foreign currency debt, Sri Lanka faces stark choices. One of those is to restructure its foreign currency debt.

Finance professionals came together to discuss how the accounting landscape is changing at Re:start21, one in a series of discussions organised in a collaboration of Economynext.com and Friedrich Naumann Foundation Sri Lanka office.