Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks - Monthly (1995 to Latest (12 Oct 2026)
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About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Rupees million
- Date range Dec 1995 – Aug 2026
- Last checked 12 Oct 2026
Checks: 2 recorded for this series, listed below.
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Details
- Name in the warehouse
- Commercial banks (OBUs): Total Assets / Liabilities
- Read from
- CBSL statistical tables (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/statistical-tables
- Notes
- CBSL table4.08 (monthly), 'OBUs' sheet: Total Assets / Liabilities.
Source documents
Vintages
One vintage so far, published 12 Oct 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.
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Source discrepancies
What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.
- Disagrees with itselfApr 2013
The parts and the published total differ by 30,750 (762,975 against 793,725).
Consistency: 762,975.149 and 793,725.147, difference −30,749.999.
Commercial banks (OBUs, M): assets sum (793725.1) / liabilities sum (762975.1) vs the printed combined total (762975.1)
OBU commercial banks, 2013-04: printed combined total 762975.1 vs assets-sum/liabilities-sum 793725.1, diff -30750.0. Isolated to this month (and 2013-06 the only other one) - every other month in the series reconciles exactly, which rules out a parser or check bug; a genuine reporting inconsistency in the source OBU return for this month.
- Disagrees with itselfJun 2013
The parts and the published total differ by 16,806 (754,483 against 737,678).
Consistency: 754,483.418 and 737,677.727, difference 16,805.691.
Commercial banks (OBUs, M): assets sum (737677.7) / liabilities sum (754483.4) vs the printed combined total (754483.4)
OBU commercial banks, 2013-06: printed combined total 754483.4 vs assets-sum/liabilities-sum 737677.7, diff +16805.7. Isolated to this month (and 2013-06 the only other one) - every other month in the series reconciles exactly, which rules out a parser or check bug; a genuine reporting inconsistency in the source OBU return for this month.