Commercial Bank to keep 72 branches open on 7 March, Mahasivarathri Day

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it will keep 72 branches open for business on Monday, 7 March, a Public and Bank holiday to mark the Mahasivarathri festival.

The Commercial Bank branches that will operate on that day include the bank’s 30 Supermarket Banking Centres and 25 ‘365-day’ branches which will work their customary hours, and another 17 branches that will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the bank said.  

These 17 branches are Wellawatte, Colpetty, Kotahena, Maharagama, Borella, Nugegoda, Narahenpita, Battaramulla, Panchikawatte, Union Place, Wattala, Dehiwala, Moratuwa, 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 five consecutive years, Commercial Bank operates a network of 250 branches and 625 ATMs in Sri Lanka, the largest electronic cash dispensing facility owned by a single bank in the country. 

The bank was ranked the most valuable private sector brand in Sri Lanka in 2014 and has also won multiple awards as Sri Lanka’s best bank from a number of international publications over several years. The bank was adjudged one of Sri Lanka’s 10 best corporate citizens by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce in 2013 and 2014.