Commercial Bank opens new branch at Matara

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has enhanced its presence in the Southern part of the island by opening its 3rd customer service point in Matara, the Matara City Office, to supplement the services provided by the existing Commercial Bank branch at Station Road and the Minicom situated in the Cargills Food City.

The first branch in Matara was opened 36 years ago as the 5th branch of Commercial Bank, bringing their personalized services to the public and traders of Matara. With the rapid expansion of business, trading and industrial activities in the area, there was a continuous increase in the inflow of customers, leading to the opening of the first MiniCom Centre in the entire Southern Province in 2007. "However, even this was not adequate to meet the constantly increasing customer demands, requiring us to open this new branch named, Matara City Office at No. 11, Beach Road, Matara," a Bank spokesman said. "The new location will offer a tremendous convenience to the public as well as traders because it is located very close to the main trading area and the main bus stand." The new branch will be the 171st branch of the Bank and will be opened from 9 a.m. to 3. p.m. providing all types of banking transactions.

The new branch is linked to all other Commercial Bank branches and the Supermarket Banking counters islandwide permitting online real-time banking. It is also equipped with an ATM linked to 335 ATMs of Commercial Bank, over 1,000 other ATMs locally and over one million ATMs belonging to the Cirrus and Visa networks islandwide.