Combank to keep 70 branches open on Hajj festival day

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The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it will keep 70 branches open for business tomorrow, a public and bank holiday to mark the Hajj festival.

The Bank said the branches scheduled to operate on that day would include the Bank’s 27 supermarket banking centres and 27 ‘365-day’ branches, which will work their customary hours, and another 16 branches that will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

These 16 branches are Wellawatta, Kollupitiya, Kotahena, Maharagama, Borella, Nugegoda, Narahenpita, Battaramulla, Panchikawatte, Union Place, Wattala, Dehiwala, Avissawella, Piliyandala, the Foreign Branch at Razik Fareed Mawatha, and Main Street, Pettah.

The only Sri Lankan bank to be ranked among the top 1000 banks of the world for eight years consecutively, Commercial Bank operates a network of 262 branches and 778 ATMs in Sri Lanka. The Bank has won more than 30 international and local awards in 2016 and 2017, and 16 international awards in the first six months of 2018 from a number of local and international institutions and publications.