Officials said foreign finance helped boost net interest margins and helped avoid taking very high cost domestic deposits.
China Development Bank had loaned the bank 45 million US dollars for 5-years, and Proparco, a French development agency had agreed to give an 8-year 20 million US dollar facility.
"We took the money from China Development Bank," Perera told an investor forum in Colombo.
"Proparco, we still have a little time, so we are waiting because we are quite liquid right now."
The bank also raised 62.5 million US dollars from a one-year syndicated loan in March 2012 and it is wrapping up a 100 million dollar loan this week.
In 2012 Sampath Bank group reported profits of 5.2 billion rupees up 25.6 percent from a year earlier (stand alone bank profits were up 31.6 percent to 5.0 billion rupees).