Loans to business from Sri Lanka's commercial banks hit a fresh high of 54.50 billion rupees in October 2011 to 1,882 billion rupees while central bank credit to the state also rose amid defence of a dollar peg, official data shows.
Credit to business grew 33.4 percent in the 12-month to October from a year earlier, easing slightly from 34.8 percent in September, but the monthly volume was the highest since the end of a balance of payments crisis in 2009.