‘Pathfinder Money’ opens currency changing service in Colombo 3

MMBL-Pathfinder Group has formally launched ‘Pathfinder Money’, a Central Bank-approved money changing service, to buy and sell foreign currencies at No. 330, Galle Road, Colombo 3. The ‘Pathfinder Money’ network will be expanded to strategic locations in the country.  

MMBL will buy foreign currencies and will sell foreign currencies up to a limit of $ 5,000 per transaction for the purposes of holiday and pilgrimage, business, official, private training courses, sports, conferences and seminars, living expenses for education and medical, as authorised by the Central Bank.  Another MMBL-Pathfinder Group company, MMBL Money Transfer (a joint venture with Aitken Spence PLC) is already the largest agent for Western Union Money Transfer in Sri Lanka. MMBL Money Transfer accounts for over $ 150 million in annual inward remittances to Sri Lanka and has nearly 3,000 agents throughout the island. MMBL-Pathfinder Group President Neiliya Perera inaugurated the project, and the Group CEO K. Balasundaram, Pathfinder Foundation Chairman Bernard Goonetilleke, Pathfinder Agro Development Director Dharmin Perera, Managing Director Dinesh Mendis, and MMBL Money Transfer Director Nilanthi Sivapragasam participated in the event.