Microsoft partners LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2022 as Platinum Sponsor

From left: LankaClear COO Dinuka Perera, GM/CEO Channa de Silva, Microsoft Sri Lanka and Maldives Country Manager Harsha Randeny, and Microsoft South Asia New Markets Chief Marketing and Business Operations Lead Thilanka Abeywardena 

The world’s largest cloud service provider, Microsoft has partnered LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2022 as the Platinum Sponsor giving a further boost to the country’s first and the only payment technology innovation awards in its fourth edition. 

The outbreak of COVID-19 nearly brought not only the entire country but also the whole world to a standstill. To ensure that the local businesses and society could function seamlessly, the financial sector worked tirelessly alongside workers in other essential services. 

Due to their silent contribution, the businesses and public were able to perform their day-to-day financial transactions from wherever they were, safely and conveniently. 

LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2022 aims to recognise the flagbearers of payment technology innovations in the country who have steadfast to the cause of promoting digital payments thereby supporting businesses, Government, and individuals to carry out their financial transactions seamlessly during these challenging times. 

Organised by LankaClear – the operator of LankaPay National Payment Network, the award ceremony is scheduled to be held on 29 March at Shangri-La Colombo. 

APAC Enterprise Director – FSI Microsoft Basudev Banerjee, will deliver the keynote address at the event. Banerjee has over three decades of experience in business consulting, banking, financial markets, corporate finance, and treasury operations. 

“As Microsoft engages with the financial sector more broadly and deeply, we are excited to promote digital payments in the country by supporting the flagbearers of payment technology innovations,” said Microsoft Sri Lanka and Maldives Country Manager Harsha Randeny. 

“The work that LankaClear does is vital to the evolution and success of payment technology in Sri Lanka. We look forward to continuing this collaboration and advancing key business priorities, including helping the ecosystem modernise payment infrastructure to elevate our digital economy.”

With an appropriate theme ‘Honouring the Digital Superheroes’, LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2022 intends to recognise the silent contributions made by banks, NBFIs, and FinTech companies for their immense hard work to support the national economy amidst unprecedented challenges and deliver payment technology innovations during these challenging times. Microsoft offers a wide breadth of technologies with free trials including SMB-specific cloud software and hardware designed to make your day-to-day better and better. 

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