People's Leasing clinches Silver and Bronze at the SLIBFI awards ceremony

People's Leasing & Finance PLC (PLC); the trailblazer in Sri Lanka's non-bank financial services sector clinched Silver and Bronze awards at the SLIBFI (Sri Lanka Islamic Banking and Financial Industry) awards ceremony. The gala event was held for the third time on 27th May at the Galadari hotel.

SLIBFI awards is held with the object of honouring the best performers in the Islamic Banking and Financial fraternity in Sri Lanka, under six categories. PLC secured the Bronze in the 'Best Islamic Finance Entity of the Year' category, whilst PLC's Operations Executive Mr. M. Hikam Hussain bagged the Silver in the 'Rising Islamic Finance Personality of the Year' category.

Speaking of the two awards, Mr. Rohan Tennakoon, DGMBusiness Development & Marketing of PLC said, "we are indeed honoured to have received these two prestigious accolades and it is of significance to us as this is the very first occasion that our 'Al- Safa' Islamic Finance Unit applied for the SLIBFI awards.

We launched our Al-Safa Islamic Finance Unit in 2005 and all our activities in the Al- Safa Unit are carried out strictly according to the Sharia'h principles under the guidance of Sharia'h Supervisory Board. These activities have shown a significant progress as of today. We have seven dedicated branches operating under the Al-Safa Unit at present and in addition, Islamic financial services can also be obtained from any of our other branches in the country".