Primera MFBank Boosts Economic Growth With Over N5 Billion Financing To SMEs
Primera MFBank Boosts Economic Growth With Over N5 Billion Financing To SMEs
Over N5 billion in financing has been provided to small and medium-sized enterprises by Primera Microfinance Bank, a fully licensed and technology-driven financial institution that provides financial solutions to businesses and individuals, so far in 2022. The Bank achieved this admirable feat by strategically focusing on key growth industries within the SME space to promote their commercial and economic growth, and by further committing to maintain robust financing lines to entrepreneurs in the economy, enabling them to weather economic headwinds and overcome crucial financial challenges.
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About 26% of these financing lines were made out to female entrepreneurs in the current financial year, more than doubling the 13% share seen in 2021, in recognition of the critical role that gender diversity and financial inclusion for women plays in fostering sustainable economic growth. Small and medium-sized business owners were the main beneficiaries of these financial lines, which were designed to help them run, expand, and start new ventures that would help them compete in the market.
Primera MFBank Boosts Economic Growth With Over N5 Billion Financing To SMEs
The Chief Executive Officer of Primera Microfinance Bank, Mr. Unwana Efiong Esang, speaking on the development said, “At Primera MFBank we are solidly committed to building the capacity of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in this economy to ensure they thrive, create wealth for our people and add value to society. This is critical because according to available data, over 99% of registered businesses in Nigeria are MSMEs and they contribute 46% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this is in addition to providing over 87% of employment in our economy. So, we are very deliberate in our focus to grow this very important dimension of our economy by leveraging one of our must-win objectives of significantly improving customer and stakeholder satisfaction.”
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“Our bank, through our Primera Business proposition, is proud to be championing the cause of SMEs in our economy, and in recognition of the fact that access to finance is a major challenge to SMEs, we have optimised our lending processes to make our financing lines more accessible and available in a time and cost-efficient manner to our highly valued SME clientele. In addition to these, we have established partnerships that have significantly improved on credit application support, as well as the knowledge, expertise and enabling infrastructure around SMEs through our periodically held and very well-attended Primera SME Clinics”, Esang further stated.
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Primera MFBank Boosts Economic Growth With Over N5 Billion Financing To SMEs
In addition, he said, “These clinics are focused on empowering SMEs and entrepreneurs with company incorporation support, financial and economic literacy, sales and marketing support, book-keeping knowledge, branding support and legal advisory for their businesses. We have developed a very robust and all-encompassing ecosystem to incubate SMEs to achieve market and economic success”.
In conclusion Esang said, “The results of all our efforts have further validated and proven our concept for SME success and we fully intend to further deepen our support for small and medium-scale entrepreneurs, grow their businesses into sustainable and economically viable enterprises and thereby contribute further to the deepening and development of our economy. At Primera Microfinance Bank we truly are your fully dedicated partner for growth.”
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