By Ravi Ladduwahetty

Commercial Bank of Ceylon Ltd will shortly raise Rs. 4 billion through Preference Shares and Debentures which will fund the bid for the purchase of the 90 percent divestiture of the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd, opening of two branches of the bank in Chennai and Bangalore and also the expansion of its Information Technology infrastructure. It will also fund the medium term lending program of the bank.
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