Circular No. Requirement Period Date published in
Sinhala, Tamil and
English Newspapers
No. 02 of 2019 18 January 2019

6.1 The publication should be made within two months from the end of each quarter, at least once in an English, Sinhala and Tamil newspaper.

6.2 Publication of annual audited financial statements shall be made within five months from the end of the financial year.

6.3 If the Bank publishes its Audited Financial Statements within three months from the end of the financial year, the requirement to publish the Financial Statements for the 4th quarter in terms of 6.1 above would not be mandatory.

Quarter 1 ended 31 March 2022 27 May 2022
Quarter 2 ended 30 June 2022 26 August 2022
Quarter 3 ended 30 September 2022 25 November 2022
Quarter 4 ended 31 December 2022 (Audited) 24 March 2023

Compliance to other disclosure requirements on Annual Financial Statements, which were applicable to licensed commercial banks are summarised below:

1. Information about the significance of financial instruments for financial position and performance
1.1 Statement of Financial Position
1.1.1 Disclosures on categories of financial assets and financial liabilities Note 21 to the Financial Statements
1.1.2 Other disclosures

(i) Special disclosures about financial assets and financial liabilities designated to be measured at fair value through profit or loss, including disclosures about credit risk and market risk, changes in fair value attributable to these risks and the methods of measurement

Note 4.4 , 27 and 64 to the Financial Statements

(ii) Reclassifications of financial instruments from one category to another

Note 63.4 to the Financial Statements

(iii) Information about financial assets pledged as collateral and about financial or non-financial assets held as collateral

Note 58 the Financial Statements

(iv) Reconciliation of the allowance account for credit losses by class of financial assets

Note 28.1 and 28.2 to the Financial Statements

(v) Information about compound financial instruments with multiple embedded derivatives

None

(vi) Breaches of terms of loan agreements

None
1.2 Statement of Comprehensive Income
1.2.1 Disclosures on items of income, expense, gains and losses Note 7 to 18 to the Financial Statements
1.2.2 Other disclosures

(i) Total interest income and total interest expense for those financial instruments that are not measured at fair value through profit and loss

Note 8 to the Financial Statements

(ii) Fee income and expense

Note 9 to the Financial Statements

(iii) Amount of impairment losses by class of financial assets

Note 14 to the Financial Statements

(iv) Interest income on impaired financial assets

Note 8.1 to the Financial Statements
1.3 Other disclosures
1.3.1 Accounting policies for financial instruments Note 4.4, 21 to 30, 39 to 44 and 49 to the Financial Statements
1.3.2 Information on financial liabilities designated at FVTPL None
1.3.3 Investments in equity instruments designated at FVOCI

(i) Details of equity instruments that have been designated as at FVOCI and the reasons for the designation.

Note 30 to the Financial Statements

(ii) Fair value of each investment at the reporting date

Note 30.2 and 30.3 to the Financial Statements

(iii) Comparable carrying amounts

Note 30 to the Financial Statements

(iv) Description of how fair value was determined

Note 63 to the Financial Statements

(v) Dividends recognised during the period, separately for investments derecognised during the reporting period and those held at the reporting date.

Note 13 to the Financial Statements

(vi) Transfer cumulative gain or loss within equity during the period and the reasons for those transfers

Note 12 to the Financial Statements

(vii) If investments in equity instruments measured at FVOCI are derecognised during the reporting period,

None
  • Reasons for disposing of the investments
  • Fair value of the investments at the date of derecognition
  • The cumulative gain or loss on disposal
1.3.4 Reclassification of financial assets

(i) For all reclassifications of financial assets in the current or previous reporting period

Note 63.4 to the Financial Statements
  • Date of reclassification
  • Detailed explanation of the change in the business model and a qualitative description of its effect on the Financial Statements
  • The amount reclassified into and out of each category

(ii) For reclassifications from FVTPL to amortised cost of FVOCI

None
  • The effective interest rate (EIR) determined on the date of reclassification
  • the interest revenue recognised

(iii) For reclassifications from FVOCI to amortised cost, or from FVTPL to amortised cost or FVOCI

Note 63.4 to the Financial Statements
  • The fair value of the financial assets at the reporting date
  • The fair value gain or loss that would have been recognised in profit or loss or OCI during the reporting period if the financial assets had not been reclassified.
1.3.5 Information on hedge accounting Note 53 to the Financial Statements
1.3.6 Information about the fair values of each class of financial asset and financial liability, along with:

(i) Comparable carrying amounts

Note 63 to the Financial Statements

(ii) Description of how fair value was determined

Note 63 to the Financial Statements

(iii) The level of inputs used in determining fair value

Note 63 to the Financial Statements

(iv) (a) Reconciliations of movements between levels of fair value measurement hierarchy

None

(b) Additional disclosures for financial instruments that fair value is determined using Level 3 inputs

Note 63.1.3 to the Financial Statements

(v) Information if fair value cannot be reliably measured

None
2. Information about the nature and extent of risks arising from financial instruments
2.1 Qualitative disclosures
2.1.1 Risk exposures for each type of financial instrument Risk Report and Note 64 to the Financial Statements
2.1.2 Management’s objectives, policies, and processes for managing those risks Risk Management Report
2.1.3 Changes from the prior period Risk Management Report
2.2 Quantitative disclosures
2.2.1 Summary of quantitative data about exposure to each risk at the reporting date Note 64 to the Financial Statements
2.2.2 Disclosures about credit risk, liquidity risk, market risk, operational risk, interest rate risk and how these risks are managed Note 64 to the Financial Statements

(i) Credit Risk

Note 64.2 to the Financial Statements

(a) Maximum amount of exposure (before deducting the value of collateral), description of collateral, information about credit quality of financial assets that are neither past due nor impaired and information about credit quality of financial assets

Note 64.2.2 to the Financial Statements

(b) For financial assets that are past due or impaired, disclosures on age, factors considered in determining as impaired and the description of collateral on each class of financial asset

Note 64.2.1 to the Financial Statements

(c) Information about collateral or other credit enhancements obtained or called

Note 64.2.2.1 to the Financial Statements

(d) Credit risk management practices – CRM practices and how they relate to the recognition and measurement ECL, including the methods, assumptions, and information used to measure ECL

Note 28 and 64 to the Financial Statements

 Quantitative and qualitative information to evaluate the amounts in the Financial Statements arising from ECL, including changes and the reasons for those changes

 How the Bank determines whether the credit risk of financial instruments has increased significantly since initial recognition

 The Bank’s definitions of default for different financial instruments, including the reasons for selecting those definitions

 How instruments are grouped if ECL are measured on a collective basis

 How the Bank determines that financial assets are credit – impaired

 The Bank’s write-off policy, including the indicators that there is no reasonable expectation of recovery

 How the modification requirements have been applied

(e) ECL calculations

Note 28 to the Financial Statements

 Basis of the inputs, assumptions and the estimation techniques used when estimating ECL

 How forward – looking information has been incorporated into the determination of ECL including the use of macroeconomic information. Changes in estimation techniques or significant assumptions made during the reporting period

(f) Amounts arising from ECL

Note 22, 24, 28 and 29 to the Financial Statements

 Reconciliation for each class of financial instruments of the opening balance to the closing balance of the impairment loss allowance

(g) Collateral

Note 64.2.2 to the Financial Statements

 Bank’s maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date

 Description of collateral held as security and other credit enhancements

(h) Written-off assets

Note 28 to the Financial Statements

 Contractual amount outstanding of financial assets written off during the reporting period that are still subject to enforcement activity.

(i) Pillar III disclosures of the Banking Act Directions No 1 of 2016 on Capital requirements under Basel III for licensed banks

Capital Adequacy in Compliance annexes

(ii) Liquidity Risk

(a) A maturity analysis of financial liabilities

Note 60 to the Financial Statements

(b) Description of approach to risk management

Risk Management Report and Note 64.3 to the Financial Statements

(c) Pillar III disclosures of the Banking Act Direction No. 1 of 2016 on Capital requirements under Basel III for Licensed Banks

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(iii) Market Risk

(a) A sensitivity analysis of each type of market risk to which the entity is exposed

Note 64.4 to the Financial Statements

(b) Additional information, if the sensitivity analysis is not representative of the Bank’s risk exposure

Note 64.4 to the Financial Statements

(c) Pillar III disclosures of the Banking Act Directions No. 1 of 2016 on Capital requirements under Basel III for Licensed Banks

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(iv) Operational Risk Pillar III disclosures of the Banking Act Direction No. 1 of 2016
on Capital requirements under Basel III for Licensed Banks

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(v) Equity risk in the banking book

(a) Qualitative disclosures

Differentiation between holdings on which capital gains are expected and those taken under other objectives including for relationship and strategic reasons

Note 27 and 30 to the Financial Statements

Discussion of important policies covering the valuation and accounting of equity holdings in the banking book

Note 27 and 30 to the Financial Statements

(b) Quantitative disclosures

Value disclosed in the Statement of Financial Position of investments, as well as the fair value of those investments; for quoted securities, a comparison to publicly quoted share values where the share price is materially different from fair value

Note 27.2, 30.2 and 30.3 to the Financial Statements

The types and nature of investments

Note 27 and 30 to the Financial Statements

The cumulative realised gains/(losses) arising from sales and liquidations in the reporting period

Note 12 to the Financial Statements

(vi) Interest rate risk in the banking book

(a) Qualitative disclosures

Nature of interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) and key assumptions

Note 64.4.2 to the Financial Statements

(b) Quantitative disclosures

The increase/(decline) in earnings or economic value (or relevant measure used by management) for upward and downward rate shocks according to management’s method for measuring IRRBB, broken down by currency (as relevant)

Note 64.4.1 to the Financial Statements
2.2.3 Information on concentrations of risk Note 64.2.3 to the Financial Statements
3. Other Disclosures
3.1 Capital
3.1.1 Capital structure Note 50 to the Financial Statements
3.2 Qualitative disclosures
Summary information on the terms and conditions of the main features of all capital instruments, especially in the case of innovative, complex or hybrid capital instruments Debt – Note 49 to the Financial Statements Equity – Note 50
3.3 Quantitative disclosures
3.3.1 Quantitative disclosures
  • Paid-up share capital/common stock
Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes
  • Reserves
Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes
  • Non-controlling interests in the equity of subsidiaries
Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes
  • Innovative instruments
None
  • Other capital instruments
None
  • Deductions from Tier I capital
Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(b) The total amount of Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(c) Other deductions from capital

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(d) Total eligible capital

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes
3.4 Capital adequacy

(i) Qualitative disclosures

A summary discussion of the Bank’s approach to assessing the adequacy of its capital or support current and future activities

Risk Report and Note 64.6 to the Financial Statements

(ii) Quantitative disclosures

(a) Capital requirements for credit risk, market risk and operational risk

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes

(b) Total and Tier 1 capital ratio

Capital Adequacy in Compliance Annexes