AMF’s merger with Arpico Finance Company

Two of Sri Lanka’s oldest finance companies, Associated Motor Finance Company PLC (AMF) and Arpico Finance Company PLC (AFC), following its merger, will forge ahead together to cater to Sri Lanka’s growing financial services industry.

This amalgamation of two entities will be a symbol of Sri Lanka’s financial industry strength despite a challenging environment in the current global financial landscape that resembles prudent financial management skills of a family business corporation with proper governance structure and responsibility towards stakeholders, AMF parent company, AMW said in a media release.

“With two entities now becoming one as Associated Motor Finance Company, our record of resilience and fortitude will help us to tide over this challenging period to the best of our abilities and in a more resilient manner than many others in the industry,” Associated Motor Finance Company PLC Chief Executive Officer T.M.A Sallay said adding that once the two entities are merged the entity will have a strong asset base over Rs. 20 billion.

“With the acquisition of Arpico Finance Company, we are operating as a group with joint synergies and have diversified into three and four-wheel leasing categories by leveraging on Aprico Finance’s expertise and geographic spread with 10 strategically located branches. Earlier Associated Motor Finance PLC was operating more on a ‘Branch-Less’ model but now we will be forging ahead with Branch model to cater to a wider clientele,” Mr. Sally added.

He went on to say that AMF benefited by way of its low cost business model which consisted of one main branch supported by field agents who service customers located across the country in past before the acquisition of AFC. Now with the merger AMF with branches will also expected to enhance value through consolidating and administrating the operational infrastructures more efficiently while adding more value to all stakeholders, enabling the merged entity to emerge as a considerable force in the finance sector of Sri Lanka tiled under the Associated Motor Finance Company PLC (AMF) brand. AMF acquired 94% per cent of shares in AFC in October 2014.

AFC CEO Chandrin Fernando said that he has great faith in the experienced Board, senior management and highly trained staff of AMF to soldier on and mitigate the many challenges whilst the well-being and financial security of their customers remains the foremost priority.