Ecobank Nigeria has organized
customer forum for exporters and importers targeted at boosting trade and
commerce in the country. Country Head, Commercial Banking, Ecobank
Nigeria, Rotimi Morohunfola, said the forum held in Lagos at the weekend, is
one of the several avenues by which the Bank extends support to promoters and
stakeholders in export and import business.
He
explained that the engagement, basically an interactive session afforded the Bank
the opportunity to obtain feedback from participants with a view to serving
them better. According to him, “We take into cognizance the role of exporters
and importers in the economy. The economy is largely driven by trade. This is
why we decided to hold this forum to engage our customers, feel their pulse,
and also bring in the regulators like CBN to build capacity and further
enlighten them on new trends and market practices.”
Morohunfola
further re-assured participants of the Bank’s determination to support them at
all times, urging them to continue to do business with the Bank.
Presentations
were made by Transaction Services Group, Treasury and Trade Operation
departments of the Bank.
On
support for small businesses, Head, SME, Commercial Banking, Ecobank Nigeria,
Sunkanmi Olowo, said the Bank had put in place several initiatives to promote
small and medium enterprises (SMEs). According to him, “Ecobank is commonly
regarded as SME friendly bank. This is because of our support for the sub
sector. For instance, we have an online mall called MyMall which presently have
over 5000 SMEs trading on the platform globally; we are in partnership with EDC
and Lagos Business School (LBS) where SME operators are trained and empowered
to start their businesses; we offer window for them to access foreign exchange
and also explore the CBN window to assist them. In fact, as a bank, we do a lot
for the sub sector.”
Deputy
Director, Trade and Exchange department, CBN, Olu Vincent, applauded Ecobank
for holding the forum. He enlightened participants on various measures to
achieve seamless transactions.
Source: Worldstagegroup.com
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