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Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka’s leading bank always recognizes and rewards the savings habit of Sri Lankans. In-line with this concept, BOC has introduced “BOC Mega Wasi” promotion to inculcate the habit of savings among Sri Lankans. The final draw of the BOC Mega Wasi promotion is scheduled to take place on the 23rd January at Plaza Area of Bank of Ceylon Head Office, Colombo. BOC Mega Wasi is the largest gift bonanza in the country which provides Rs.165 Million worth of gifts to over 9,800 winners.
The winners were selected in the first three quarterly draws conducted in April, July and October in 2012. Up to date a total of 6,225 winners have been rewarded in the previous quarterly draws and 3,600 winners will be eligible to win exciting prizes at Mega Wasi final draw.
The account holders with a minimum balance of Rs 10,000/= for a continuous period of 3 months from 1st October 2012 to 31st December 2012 are qualify to enter the BOC Mega Wasi final draw. Winners are entitled for exciting gifts such as 3 Luxury Japanese cars, 75 sets of Furniture/ Electrical Appliances worth Rs.100,000/= each, 1,500 Cargills gift vouchers worth Rs.15,000/= each, and 2,000 cash prizes at Rs.10,000/= each and 25 Pilgrimage Packages worth Rs.100,000/= each to India (Dambadiva Charika).
The BOC Mega Wasi final draw was held under the patronage of its Chairman Mr.Razik Zarook, its Board Directors, its General Manager, Mr. D.M. Gunasekara and the Corporate Management of Bank of Ceylon. The BOC Mega Wasi promotion will continue in the year 2013 to encourage the savings habit among Sri Lankans.
In order to facilitate customer convenience, the bank’s main office now offers a 24-hour banking service that is available 365 days of the year. Its customer touch points include 601 branches; 452 ATM’s, 861 foreign correspondent agents to remit money to Sri Lanka, 10 SME dedicated centres for entrepreneurs, mobile phone banking services, internet banking services, SMS banking services and premier banking services. Bank of Ceylon recently launched the facility of Night Banking at its Wellawatte Branch and offers weekend Banking at selected locations as well as a 24 hour Call Centre facility.
Fitch Rating Lanka Ltd upgraded the bank’s national long-term rating to AA+(lka) stable outlook which is the highest rating awarded to a local commercial bank in Sri Lanka. Bank of Ceylon recently received global recognition as one of the top 1,000 banks in the world, by the world’s premier banking and finance magazine, ‘The Banker’. Furthermore, the bank made history by achieving the largest asset base of one trillion in its balance sheet among all commercial banks in Sri Lanka.