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Our Mission

An organisation dedicated to promote,mobilise and manage savings and serve customers with diverse financial requirements effectively and genuine care.We help our people to grow whilst remaining committed to our community,investors and regulators.

Our vision

To be the most trusted leader in the financial services industry.

Our values

In conducting our day-to-day business we will respond promptly and act creatively with trust,mutual respect and integrity.

Our History

The National Savings Bank was established on the 16' of March, 1972 under an Act of Parliament No. 30 of 1971, amalgamating the National Savings movement Ceylon Savings Bank, Post Office Savings Bank and Savings Certificates Section of the Post Master General's Department.

NSB is the proud inheritor of a rich tradition of savings banking, dating back to the early 19th century. Tracing its history very briefly, on the 6th of August 1832, the Governor of Ceylon Sir Robert Wilmot Horton pioneered the establishment of the Ceylon Savings Bank. Business was slow at first as the bank was open only three days a week and transactions were in sterling pounds. Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, quick to detect the leisurely and bureaucratic operations of the bank, advocated a more efficient and customer conscious institution. The Post Office Savings Bank, finally established in 1885, effected easy access for deposits and withdrawals through the network of national post offices. For the first time in the nations history, a true bank for the little man opened for business as the Ceylon Post Office Savings Bank. The In 1941, reins of the Post Office Savings Bank were handed over to a Board of Trustees comprising the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Posts, the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and the Postmaster General. The last two officials remain members of the Board of Directors of NSB even now.