Commercial Bank, Hatton National Bank, National Savings Bank, People’s Bank, Sampath Bank and Seylan Bank plan to open branches in 11 towns in the north and east over the next few months, it said.
"Necessary approvals for this purpose have been granted by the Central Bank," the statement said.
Licensed banks currently operating in the northern and eastern provinces have also committed to grant new credit facilities amounting to 56 billion rupees in 2010 and 70 billion rupees in 2011 in these two provinces, it said.
Economic activity in the north and east has begun to revive with the end of the island's 30-year ethnic conflict in May 2009.