State-owned People’s Bank is to open three new branches in the towns of Kilinochchi, Mankulam and Paranthan in the northern province which were scenes of heavy fighting during the war.
The private Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Seylan Bank PLC are to open one branch each in Kilinochchi.
The listed Nations Trust Bank will open a branch in the northern Jaffna peninsula.
"Necessary approvals of the Central Bank have also been granted for further new bank branches in the Northern and Eastern Provinces in the next few months," the statement said.
The 30-year ethnic war ended last May, resulting in an economic revival in rht north-east as well as the rest of the country.