The Ecobank Nigeria Limited and Vanguard Economic Forum Series have announced that they are convening an MSME virtual summit to promote and encourage lending support for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the face of changing operating environment in the country. The virtual summit with the theme: ‘Unlocking Credit Growth in a Changing MSME Lending Landscape,’ will be broadcast and streamed live via zoom platform scheduled for May 21st.
The
conference in strategic partnership with Nigerian Association of Small
& Medium Enterprises (NASME) and Small & Medium Enterprises
Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) will convene keynote speakers and
panelist from regulatory agencies of government, policy decision
makers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), business and industry
thought leaders.
The
speakers and panelists carefully drawn from the banking, trade
associations and other key sectors of the economy are subject matter
experts in MSMEs and lending.
Confirmed
speakers include Managing Director/Chief Executive, Bank of Industry
(BoI), Mr Olukayode Pitan; Director General, Small and Medium Enterprise
Development Agency (SMEDAN), Dr. Dikko Rada; Executive Director, Fate
Foundation, Adenike Adeyemi; Executive Secretary, Nigerian Association
of Small & Medium Enterprises (NASME), Eke Ubiji, and a
representative of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), amongst others.
The
Guest Of Honour will be the Special Adviser to the President on Ease of
Doing Business, Jumoke Oduwole, while Patrick Akinwuntan, Managing
Director of Ecobank Nigeria will be the Chief Host.
Announcing
the conference in a statement, Country Head, SME Ecobank Nigeria
Limited, Emeka Agada, said the summit as a thought leadership content
platform would deeply dialogue on the critical role of MSMEs as the
economic engine room of any prosperous nation and the need to support
the sub sector with capital, including examination of key issues and
ways of achieving the objective through digital financial inclusion for
the MSMEs.
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