Commercial Bank to keep 70 branches open on Maha Shivaratri Day

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The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it will keep 70 branches open for business on Tuesday, 13 February, a public and bank holiday to mark the Maha Shivaratri festival.

The Commercial Bank branches that will operate on that day 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., the bank said.

These 16 branches are Wellawatte, Kolluptiya, 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 seven years consecutively, Commercial Bank operates a network of 261 branches and 756 ATMs in Sri Lanka. The bank has won more than 30 international and local awards in 2016 and 2017 and has over the years received multiple awards as Sri Lanka’s Best Bank, Best Trade Bank, Strongest Bank and Most Respected Bank from a number of local and international institutions and publications.