Bank Asia signs deal with Swisscontact to support MSMEs

Bank Asia and Swisscontact Bangladesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for financing and facilitating the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in leather goods, furniture making and light engineering sectors in Bangladesh, says a press release.
Through this partnership, Bank Asia will utilise its agent banking channel to improve financial literacy and deliver financial services to MSMEs for improving their business processes and leading them towards better efficiency.
Md Arfan Ali, President & Managing Director of Bank Asia, Suzanne Mueller, Head of Cooperation at the Embassy of Switzerland, Dajna Sorensen, Team Leader of the B-SkillFUL programme, and Mujibul Cezanne Hasan, Country Director of Swisscontact Bangladesh, along with other officials from both organisations were present at the signing ceremony held at the Bank Asia Tower in Dhaka recently.