CAB to hold Interbank Quiz Competition on Saturday

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The 21st annual Interbank Quiz Competition organised jointly by the Chartered Institute of Bankers Colombo Chapter and Clearing Association of Bankers (CAB) is to be held on 6 April (from 4 p.m. onwards) at Taj Samudra, Grand Crystal Ballroom.

The competition which is open for all commercial, development and savings banks, has already received an overwhelming response with over 36 teams registering.

Interbank Quiz is both competitive and a lot of fun. The objectives of this annual event are to foster the rapport among the bankers, encourage interbank fellowship and impart knowledge on varied subjects such as current affairs, law relating to banking and finance, international trade, sports, entertainment, etc. As in the past years, the Quiz Master will be Ravi Molligoda.

One should also be keen to know how the Inter Bank Quiz will be worked out. Each team should comprise five members who shall together face the Quiz Master and there will be five such rounds on the given subjects and each round will have 10 questions.

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

CAB was formed in 2008 with the objective of “enhancing the knowledge of bankers as well as to promote the goodwill, understanding and fellowship among bankers engaged in clearing and to acquire the cutting edge technology in the world with regard to Clearing for member banks. The association has been able to fulfil these objectives with many activities performed island wide with a large participation.

The CAB currently constitutes more than 400 life members from the banking fraternity and the incumbent President is Halin Hettigoda, Manager, Network Service Centre, Sampath Bank, the brainchild of the association. The Association has been striving hard to make the Quiz program popular and the most sought after annual event of the banking fraternity.

Sponsors of the event are Deutsche Bank, Pronto Lanka, Canon, Dell and Lanka Clear.