The Clearing Association of Bankers concludes 27th successful Annual Interbank Quiz Competition

The winners – the People’s Bank ‘C’ team. Metropolitan Office (Platinum Sponsor) Director/Group CIO Susil Peiris hands over the champion’s trophy to the Captain of the People’s Bank ‘C’ team. The Chief Guest CBSL Director of Payment and Settlement D. Kumarathunga, Clearing Association of Bankers President M. Razak Deen of MCB Bank and Clearing Association of Bankers Immediate Past President Upul De Silva of People’s Bank are also present

The 1st Runners Up – the Seylan Bank team receive their trophy from Transnational Group (Gold Sponsor) General Manager Thurab Hilmy. Chief Guest CBSL Director of Payment and Settlement D. Kumarathunga and Clearing Association of Bankers President M. Razak Deen of MCB Bank are also present

 Second Runners Up – People’s Bank ‘B’ team, BC Computers AGM Piyal Nanayakkara hands over the trophy to the Captain of the 2nd Runners Up – the Peoples Bank ‘B’ team. Chief Guest CBSL Director of Payment and Settlement D. Kumarathunga, Clearing Association of Bankers President M. Razak Deen of MCB Bank and Clearing Association of Bankers Immediate Past President Upul De Silva of People’s Bank are also present

The CAB Executive Committee. Bottom row from left – Rizana Ismail of SCB, Manjula Jayarathne of NTB, Suranga Madhushan of Sampath Bank, K. Balachandrarajan of Cargills Bank, Upul De Silva of People’s Bank, CBSL Director Payment and Settlement Chief Guest D. Kumarathunga, M. Razak Deen of MCB Bank, Janaka Jayawickrema of Sampath Bank, Shamitha Atapattu of LankaClear, Ashoka Senavirathne of LankaClear and Suhashini Gunawardena of Commercial Bank. Top row from left – Asanka Theadore of PABC, Malinda Mallawarachchi of HNB, Anura Jayakody of Sampath Bank, Janak Palugaswewa of HNB, Asanka Surasinghe of SCB, Chandana Disanayake of Amana Bank, Shehan Mendis of PABC, Kavinda De Silva of NDB, Mervyn Ponnaih of Seylan Bank and Merl Pulukuttiarachchi of Seylan Bank

The 27th Annual Interbank Quiz Competition organised by the Clearing Association of Bankers (CAB) took place on 23 June at the Balmoral Hall of The Kingsbury in Colombo. The Chief Guest of the event was CBSL Director of Payment and Settlement D. Kumaratunga.  

Clearing Association of Bankers President M. Razak Deen addressing the gathering

A total of 28 teams from the banking fraternity participated in the competition with the People’s Bank ‘C’ team emerging as the victors. The First and Second Runners-Up were the team from Seylan Bank and People’s Bank ‘B’ team respectively. As in the previous years, the Quiz Master was Ravi Molligoda.

The objectives of the Annual Interbank Quiz Competition, which is open to all commercial, development and savings banks, and financial institutions, are to foster good relations among the banking and financial institutions, and to serve as an educational program on subjects including current affairs, banking and financial law, international trade, sports, entertainment. A special additional round was conducted this year with questions related to Lanka Pay in order to enhance the participants’ knowledge about the company’s products and services.

The Clearing Association of Bankers (CAB) is an association formed by the staff of the cheque clearing departments of all commercial banks in Sri Lanka, the National Clearing House, LankaClear Ltd. and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

CAB was formed with the objective of enhancing the knowledge of bankers as well as to promote goodwill, understanding and fellowship among bankers engaged in clearing, and to acquire cutting edge technology in the world with regard to clearing for member banks. The association currently constitutes of more than 450 life members from the banking fraternity and the incumbent President is M. Razak Deen from MCB Bank.