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Sri Lanka’s banking sector is increasingly directing credit towards personal borrowing, with pawning emerging as a dominant force in lending growth, raising questions about household financial resilience, the quality of economic recovery and the sustainability of consumption-led expansion. Central Bank data show that licensed commercial banks increased Personal Loans and Advances by Rs. 550 billion […] The post Pawning Boom Signals Household Financial Stress as Personal Credit Surges appeared first on Lankanews.lk .