Seylan Bank e-Statement Password Format (2026)

Account e-statements: birth month and day (MMDD) followed by the last 4 digits of the account number. FD renewal e-statements: birth day and month (DDMM) followed by the last 4 numeric characters of your NIC.

As of October 2026, Seylan Bank says the account e-statement password is your month and day of birth (MMDD) followed by the last 4 digits of your account number. For example, Nimal Perera (made-up), born 7 March 1988, with account 0123-45678901-234, would type 03071234. Fixed deposit renewal e-statements use a different password, explained below.

The password format

Seylan publishes separate instruction sheets for each kind of e-statement, linked from its e-statement page. They are not the same, and the order of the date parts is reversed between them.

Current and savings account e-statements

The account e-statement instructions say: enter your month of birth (MM), then your day of birth (DD), then the last 4 digits of your account number. The bank's own example: account 0860-12345678-001 and date of birth 1982-10-12 give 10128001. The dashes are ignored, so the last four digits of that account are 8001.

Fixed deposit renewal e-statements

The FD renewal e-statement instructions say: enter your day of birth (DD), then your month of birth (MM), then the last 4 numeric characters of your NIC. The bank's example: date of birth 12-10-1982 and NIC 995121867V give 12101867. The letter V at the end of an old-style NIC is skipped because only numbers count.

Worked example

Nimal Perera (made-up) was born on 7 March 1988. His savings account is 0123-45678901-234 and his NIC is 198806712345.

Statement	How it is built	Password
Savings account	03 (March) + 07 (day) + 1234	03071234
FD renewal	07 (day) + 03 (March) + 2345	07032345

If Nimal had an old-style NIC such as 880671234V, the FD password would use the last four numbers, 1234, giving 07031234.

If the password doesn't work

• Check the order. Account statements start with the month; FD statements start with the day. Mixing them up is the most likely mistake, especially for dates like 07 March vs 03 July.
• Use two digits. March is 03, the 7th is 07.
• Account digits, not NIC, for account statements. Use the last four digits of the account the statement is for, ignoring dashes. If you hold several accounts, each statement uses its own account number.
• NIC numbers only for FD statements. Skip the V or X at the end of an old NIC.
• Use the birth date the bank has on record. If your date of birth was entered wrongly when you opened the account, the password will follow the bank's record.
• Credit card, joint and business accounts. Seylan's page lists several credit cards as eligible for e-statements, but the instruction sheets above cover only account and FD statements. Seylan doesn't publish what applies to cards, joint holders or companies, so read the email the statement came with, or ask your branch.
• Still stuck? Contact your account-holding branch, or Seylan on +94 11 200 88 88 or [email protected], as listed on the instruction sheets.

Keeping the statement private

Both passwords are built from your birthday and a number printed on your cheque book or NIC, so people close to you could work them out. Don't forward statements to shared inboxes, and store copies somewhere only you can open.

Removing the password so you don't have to type it again

Once the statement opens, you can keep an unlocked copy so you don't have to type the password every time. On iPhone, iPad or Mac, UnKey does this offline: you enter the password you already know, and it saves a copy without the password on your device. Nothing is uploaded. On a Mac, Preview can do the same with File > Export as PDF. On Android, the PDF opens with the password in Google Files, Google Drive or Adobe Acrobat Reader, and you can save a copy without the password by printing it to PDF. Keep the unlocked copy somewhere private, because anyone who gets hold of it can read it.

Questions

Sources

• Seylan Bank – Account e-Statement instructions (PDF)
• Seylan Bank – Fixed Deposit e-Statement instructions (PDF)
• Seylan Bank – E-statement

Formats can change. If a password doesn't work, check the email the document came with or contact the issuer. UnKey isn't affiliated with any bank, employer or authority named here.