Seylan Bank

publicly owned Commercial Bank in Sri Lanka
Organization business Q3532083
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Seylan Bank

Summary

Seylan Bank is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (70 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Seylan Bank is in the country of Sri Lanka[3].
  • Seylan Bank is in the country of LK[4].
  • Seylan Bank's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Seylan Bank's instance of is recorded as bank[6].
  • Seylan Bank's instance of is recorded as commercial bank[7].
  • Seylan Bank's instance of is recorded as financial institution[8].
  • Seylan Bank's founder is recorded as Lalith Kotelawala[9].
  • Seylan Bank's headquarters location is recorded as Colombo[10].
  • Seylan Bank's industry is recorded as economics of banking[11].
  • Seylan Bank's industry is recorded as financial services[12].
  • Seylan Bank's industry is recorded as financial sector[13].
  • 1987 marks the founding of Seylan Bank[14].
  • 2007-05-30 marks the founding of Seylan Bank[15].
  • Seylan Bank's official website is recorded as https://www.seylan.lk/[16].
  • Seylan Bank's legal form is recorded as 9999[17].
  • Seylan Bank's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+4459'}[18].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 254900O7DOLZ5CJ31S96[19]

  • Registered legal name: Seylan Bank PLC[20]

  • Legal jurisdiction: LK[21]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[22]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 9999[23]

  • Other legal form: Public Limited Company[24]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[25]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[26]

  • Entity created: 2007-05-30[27]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-10-18[28]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-09-23[29]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-10-11[30]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[31]

  • Registration authority: RA000540[32]

  • Authority entity ID: PQ 9[33]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[34]

Body

Founding

Seylan Bank's founder is recorded as Lalith Kotelawala[9]. Recorded inception include 1987[14] and 2007-05-30[15].

Operations

Seylan Bank's headquarters location is recorded as Colombo[10].

Industry

Industries include economics of banking[11], financial services[12], and financial sector[13].

Why It Matters

Seylan Bank ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (70 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [20] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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