Bank of Ceylon

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Bank of Ceylon

Company type	Government-owned corporation
Industry	Banking, financial services
Founded	1939; 85 years ago (1939)
Founder	Sir Ernest de Silva
Headquarters	BOC Square, Bank of Ceylon Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Number of locations	582 (2020)[1]
Area served	Sri Lanka Maldives India United Kingdom Seychelles
Key people	Ronald C. Perera (Chairman)[1] W. P. Russel Fonseka (General Manager)[1] (Chief Executive Officer)[1]
Services	Retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking
Revenue	Rs 252.756 billion [1] (US$ 1.325 billion) (2020)
Operating income	Rs 22.246 billion [1] (US$ 333.113 million) (2020)
Net income	Rs 16.307 billion (2020)[1] (US$ 95.302 million) (2020)
Total assets	Rs 2.982 trillion (2020)[1] (US$ 16.002 billion) (2020)
Total equity	Rs 156.659 billion (2020)[1] (US$ 840.410 million) (2020)
Number of employees	8,479 (2020)[1]
Parent	Ministry of Finance
Subsidiaries	Ceybank Asset Bank of Ceylon (UK) Limited (100%) Property Development PLC (96%) Hotels Colombo Transnational Lanka Records Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC (75%) Ceybank Asset Management Limited (43%) Southern Development Financial Company (42%) Transnational Lanka Records Solutions (25%) Lanka Securities (20%)
Website	www.boc.lk

Bank of Ceylon (BOC; Sinhala: ලංකා බැංකුව Lanka Bænkuwa, Tamil: இலங்கை வங்கி Ilangai Vangi) is a state-owned, major commercial bank in Sri Lanka. Its head office is located in an iconic cylindrical building in Colombo.

The bank has a network of 651 branches, 715 automated teller machines (ATMs), 159 CDM, 582 CRM network, and 15 regional loan centres within the country. It also has an around-the-clock call centre and an around the clock branch at its Colombo office.

In addition to the local presence, the bank maintains an off-shore banking unit in the head office in Colombo, three branches in Malé, Chennai, and Seychelles, and a subsidiary in London.