Skye Bank @ SME Seminar in Ibadan Pledges to Improve Businesses

Ibadan, Oyo State hosted the third edition of Skye Bank’s Small and Medium Enterprises seminar recently with over 300 Skye Bank’s customers and business partners in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector in attendance with Mr. Ayo Abina, Skye Bank’s regional director, South-West, assuring the bank’s existing and prospective customers of the readiness of the Bank to improving their businesses

Abina said, “The biggest problem is not the non-availability of the fund, it is the understanding of Small and Medium Scale owners of the existence of this fund and what they need to do to access this fund.’’

On her part, Ibiye Ekong, executive director, South-South/South-East, Retail, Skye Bank Plc., advised customers to tap into the financial opportunities of the Bank to boost their SME’s.

According to Ekong, “Necessary support will be given to enable customers access the Central Bank loan schemes to boost their businesses.’’

In his keynote address, Dr. Abib Olamitoye, chief executive officer, Ibadan Central Hospital, while recalling how he started his business, explained that, no amount of money was too small to start up a business.

He commended Skye Bank for believing in his dreams and encouraged participants to set goals and work towards actualizing them, adding that, “The key to success in business is to have goals.”

 Participants later commended the Bank for its foresight for organizing such seminar and different issues relating to Skye Bank Plc and the Banking industry in Nigeria were addressed by the Bank’s representatives.

The next edition of the Skye Business SME Seminar will take place in Port- Harcourt in July, 2015.