Deepal Abeywickrema, Managing Director, Nestle Bangladesh Limited, and Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO, Standard Chartered Bangladesh, exchanging documents after signing an agreement on the bank's Distributor Finance Programme at its head office in Gulshan in the city recently
StanChart, Nestle team up for finance programme
Standard Chartered Bank has signed an agreement with Nestle Bangladesh Limited (NBL) to partner in the bank's Distributor Finance Programme. The programme is one of the many initiatives by the bank to support its clients and their wider supply-chain ecosystem, through access to finance and payment platforms, fostering greater synergies and efficiencies for all concerned. Deepal Abeywickrema, Managing Director, Nestlé Bangladesh Limited, and Naser Ezaz Bijoy, CEO, Standard Chartered Bangladesh, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective companies at the bank's head office in Gulshan recently. Senior officials from both the organisations were also present. The programme will utilise an automated financing system, in which the transactions will be processed online, making transactions simpler, faster and more efficient. The innovative and customised solution will enable best in class efficiencies for Nestlé's distributors and a unique win-win solution for the bank, Nestlé and our business partners.
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Robi to set up innovation lab at IBA
Robi, a leading digital services provider, is going to set up an innovation lab at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between them in this regard on Wednesday. Robi's Managing Director and CEO Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and IBA's Director Prof Dr Syed Ferhat Anwar signed the MoU on the IBA premises. A per the agreement, Robi will set up a state-of-the-art 'Innovation Lab' on the newly renovated IBA library premises. Key focus of the Lab will be to introduce IBA students to the latest developments in data analytics, block chain, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Besides, the lab will facilitate the students to come up with real-life innovative digital business ideas.
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