| Figures | ||
| Figure No. | Description | Page No. of the printed Annual Report | 
| 1 | Qualitative Criteria used in the Production of the Annual Report | 7 | 
| 2 | Guiding Principles, Regulations, Codes, and Acts | 8 | 
| 3 | Our Key Stakeholders | 36 | 
| 4 | Our Stakeholder Engagement Process | 37 | 
| 5 | Materiality determination and integration Engagement | 40 | 
| 6 | Matters relevant to the key stakeholder groups | 41 | 
| 7 | World Economic Outlook Projections (% change) | 46 | 
| 8 | Bank’s Sustainability Framework | 52 | 
| 9 | Business Model | 54 | 
| 10 | Management Discussion and Analysis – Value creation | 58 | 
| 11 | Strategic Imperatives | 59 | 
| 12 | Our commitment to prudent growth | 60 | 
| 13 | Values that Support the Bank’s Brand | 65 | 
| 14 | The Pillars of Sustainable Finance | 75 | 
| 15 | Sustainable finance KPIs | 76 | 
| 16 | Bank’s Sustainability Journey | 82 | 
| 17 | Composition of the green financing portfolio – 2022 | 84 | 
| 18 | The Bank’s business partners | 89 | 
| 19 | Modes of engagement with investors | 124 | 
| 20 | Key regulatory requirements, voluntary codes, and elements of Corporate Governance Framework | 156 | 
| 21 | Governance structure | 158 | 
| 22 | Composition of the Board and attendance | 160 | 
| 23 | Composition of Board | 160 | 
| 24 | Executive Management committees | 161 | 
| 25 | Board Highlights 2022 | 163 | 
| 26 | Three lines of defence | 209 | 
| 27 | Risk governance structure | 210 | 
| 28 | Risk management framework | 212 | 
| 29 | Summary of key risks | 213 | 
| 30 | Group Structure | 249 | 
| 31 | Types of risk | 255 | 
| 32 | Risk Management Framework | 255 | 
| Tables | ||
| Table No. | Description | Page No. of the printed Annual Report | 
| 1 | Financial Highlights | 14 | 
| 2 | Non-financial Highlights | 15 | 
| 3 | Mode and Frequency of Stakeholder Engagement | 38 | 
| 4 | Material Topics, Risks, Opportunities, How we manage and GRI Disclosures | 43 | 
| 5 | World Economic Outlook Projections (% change) | 46 | 
| 6 | The Bank’s performance compared to the Banking Sector | 50 | 
| 7 | Statement of Capital Position | 56 | 
| 8 | Growth in deposit base and lending portfolio over the past decade | 61 | 
| 9 | Customer segmentation | 66 | 
| 10 | Channel mix and target market on perceived customer preference | 66 | 
| 11 | Investments in IT infrastructure | 70 | 
| 12 | Migration to digital channels | 70 | 
| 13 | Total financial transactions initiated through digital channels | 70 | 
| 14 | Productivity and Efficiency Ratios | 74 | 
| 15 | Aligning the Bank's Sustainability Pillars with those of CBSL | 78 | 
| 16 | Power generated through renewable sources | 79 | 
| 17 | The performance of Commercial Bank mobile Apps | 84 | 
| 18 | Employees by Category and Gender – Total Bank | 86 | 
| 19 | Employees by Type and Gender | 87 | 
| 20 | Female employees as of December 31, 2022 | 87 | 
| 21 | Retention rate (Maternity leave) | 88 | 
| 22 | Training statistics | 88 | 
| 23 | Energy consumption and GHG emissions | 99 | 
| 24 | Core Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) | 105 | 
| 25 | Key Performances Indicators – Bangladesh Operations | 108 | 
| 26 | Key Financial Ratios – Bangladesh Operations (based on management accounts) | 108 | 
| 27 | Compliance with requirements of the Section 7.6 of the Listing Rules of the CSE | 125 | 
| 28 | Summary of listed securities of the Bank | 128 | 
| 29 | Features of ordinary shares | 128 | 
| 30 | Movement of COMB voting share price over the year | 129 | 
| 31 | Share price movement of last five years | 129 | 
| 32 | Sustainable value for investors | 129 | 
| 33 | Information on shareholders’ funds and Bank’s market capitalisation | 129 | 
| 34 | Number of share transactions (No.) | 130 | 
| 35 | Number of shares traded (No. ‘000) | 130 | 
| 36 | Dividend information | 130 | 
| 37 | Number of ordinary shareholders | 131 | 
| 38 | Voting shareholders | 131 | 
| 39 | Non-voting shareholders | 132 | 
| 40 | Public shareholding | 132 | 
| 41 | Directors’ shareholding including the Chief Executive Officer’s shareholding | 132 | 
| 42 | Distribution schedule of number of holders and percentage of holding in each class of equity securities | 133 | 
| 43 | Composition of shareholders based on residency and category | 133 | 
| 44 | Information on movement in number of shares represented by the stated capital | 134 | 
| 45 | Debenture composition | 136 | 
| 46 | Key shareholder return indicators | 137 | 
| 47 | Attendance at AGMs | 167 | 
| 48 | Statement of Compliance | 188 | 
| 49 | Directors’ interest in contracts with the Bank | 201 | 
| 50 | Risk profile | 206 | 
| 51 | Maximum credit risk exposure | 215 | 
| 52 | Distribution of Stage 3 credit impaired loans and advances to other customers as of December 31, 2022 | 217 | 
| 53 | Market risk categories | 219 | 
| 54 | Interest rate sensitivity gap analysis of assets and liabilities of the Banking Book as of December 31, 2022 – Bank | 220 | 
| 55 | Sensitivity of NII to rate shocks | 220 | 
| 56 | Statutory liquidity ratios | 221 | 
| 57 | Key ratios used for measuring liquidity under the stock approach | 222 | 
| 58 | Target and actual capital | 227 | 
| 59 | Impact on CAR at minor, moderate and severe stress levels | 228 | 
| 60 | Principal business activities and nature of business operations of the Group | 250 | 
| 61 | Basis of measurement Items | 251 | 
| Graphs | ||
| Graph No. | Description | Page No. of the printed Annual Report | 
| 1 | Contribution to Group's total assets as at December 31, 2022 | 62 | 
| 2 | Deposits and advances | 62 | 
| 3 | Funding structure | 62 | 
| 4 | Deposits mix | 62 | 
| 5 | Deposits by type of currency | 62 | 
| 6 | Loans and advances by Customer type (Sri Lanka Operations) | 63 | 
| 7 | Loans and advances by industry – 2022 | 63 | 
| 8 | Loans and advances mix | 63 | 
| 9 | Loans and advances by type of currency | 63 | 
| 10 | Composition of gross income | 63 | 
| 11 | Loans and advances – density ratio | 63 | 
| 12 | Composition of loans granted by Commercial Bank to the SME sector in 2022 | 67 | 
| 13 | Growth of the ComBank Digital customer base | 72 | 
| 14 | Growth in the Corporate Banking loan book | 72 | 
| 15 | Service period analysis of employees | 86 | 
| 16 | Age analysis of employees as of December 31, 2022 | 86 | 
| 17 | Profit growth | 100 | 
| 18 | Total operating income | 101 | 
| 19 | Impairment charges | 101 | 
| 20 | Profit before and after tax | 102 | 
| 21 | ROA and ROE | 102 | 
| 22 | Composition of total assets | 103 | 
| 23 | Deposits and advances | 103 | 
| 24 | Shareholders’ funds | 104 | 
| 25 | Total operating income – Personal Banking | 106 | 
| 26 | Assets vs profit before tax vs impairment charges – Personal Banking | 106 | 
| 27 | Total operating income – Corporate Banking | 106 | 
| 28 | Assets vs profit before tax vs impairment charges – Corporate Banking | 106 | 
| 29 | Total operating income – Dealing/Treasury | 106 | 
| 30 | Assets vs profit before tax vs impairment charges – Dealing/Treasury | 106 | 
| 31 | Total operating income – International operations | 107 | 
| 32 | Assets vs profit before tax vs impairment charges – International operations | 107 | 
| 33 | Total operating income – NBFI, Real Estate and Services | 107 | 
| 34 | Assets vs profit before tax vs impairment charges – NBFI, Real Estate and Services | 107 | 
| 35 | Performance of the Colombo Stock Exchange and the Banking Sector in 2022 | 124 | 
| 36 | Performance of the Ordinary Shares – voting – 2022 | 128 | 
| 37 | Share price movement – Ordinary Shares – voting | 129 | 
| 38 | Share price movement – Ordinary Shares – Non-voting | 129 | 
| 39 | Number of share transactions | 130 | 
| 40 | Number of shares traded | 130 | 
| 41 | Shareholders’ funds and Bank’s market capitalisation | 130 | 
| 42 | Dividend per share | 131 | 
| 43 | Distribution to shareholders (Dividend paid) and Dividend pay-out ratio | 131 | 
| 44 | Tenure-wise loans and advances to other customers as at December 31, 2022 (based on residual maturity) | 216 | 
| 45 | Product-wise geographical analysis of loans and advances to other customers as at December 31, 2022 | 217 | 
| 46 | Product-wise analysis of loans and advances to other customers as at December 31, 2022 | 217 | 
| 47 | The concentration of counterparty bank exposures in Sri Lanka as at December 31, 2022 (Fitch ratings-wise) | 218 | 
| 48 | The concentration of counterparty bank exposures in Bangladesh as at December 31, 2022 (CRAB ratings-wise*) | 218 | 
| 49 | Cross Border Exposure of the Bank (Sri Lankan and Bangladesh Operations) | 218 | 
| 50 | The Concentration of Cross-border Exposure (Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Operations) – S&P Rating wise as at December 31, 2022 | 218 | 
| 51 | Funding diversification by product | 222 | 
| 52 | Composition of losses – 2022 | 223 | 
| 53 | Losses by number of events | 224 | 
| 54 | Losses by value | 224 | 
| 55 | Gross income | 235 | 
| 56 | Net interest income | 235 | 
| 57 | Net fee and commission income | 235 | 
| 58 | Total operating income | 235 | 
| 59 | Impairment charges and other losses | 235 | 
| 60 | Profit before tax | 235 | 
| 61 | Profit after tax | 235 | 
| 62 | Earnings per share – basic/diluted | 235 | 
| 63 | Interest margin | 235 | 
| 64 | Financial intermediation margin | 235 | 
| 65 | Cost Income Ratio including taxes on financial services | 235 | 
| 66 | Cost Income Ratio excluding taxes on financial services | 235 | 
| 67 | Total assets | 235 | 
| 68 | Net financial assets at amortised cost – loans and advances to other customers | 235 | 
| 69 | Financial liabilities at amortised cost – due to depositors | 235 | 
| 70 | CASA Ratio | 235 | 
| 71 | Liquidity ratios | 375 | 
| 72 | Impact of a rate shock on the net interest income | 383 | 
| 73 | Sensitivity Fx Position-Impact of 1% change in Exchange Rate (Sri Lanka Operation) | 384 |