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Foreign Currency Accounts for Professional Services providers (FCAPS)



This account can be opened by Sri Lankans, firms or companies resident in Sri Lanka providing Professional Services to residents outside Sri Lanka and/or to local firms who have an established source of earnings in foreign exchange.

How can I open a FCAPS Account?

1. Download the account opening form or collect a form from one of our Customer Centres.

2. Complete the form, sign and present it to a Customer Centre convenient to you, along with an undertaking of the individual/firm that they are already engaged in providing professional services and are remunerated in foreign currency.


What credits are permitted to a FCAPS Account?

  • Inward remittances received for providing professional services, including bank drafts in foreign currency.
  • Payment received in foreign exchange for having provided professional services to local firms who earn their revenue in foreign exchange.

What debits can be made to a FCAPS Account?

  • Outward remittances on account of current transactions (related to payments made for services)
  • Local disbursements
  • Payment to another FCAPS Account
For further assistance, contact

Mr. Kalum Wijesooriya
Chief Manager - Remittances
Hatton National Bank PLC.
Head Office, HNB Towers,
479, T B Jayah Mawatha,
Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
Tel      : +94 (011) 266 1101
Fax     : +94 (011) 266 1103
E-mail : kalum@hnb.lk