LankaBangla Finance signs agreements with SME Foundation
LankaBangla Finance Limited signed an agreement with SME Foundation under the incentive package announced by the government to distribute loans at the entrepreneurial level from the 'revolving fund'.
The signing of the agreement was held recently at the Padma Hall of Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka, reads a press release.
In accordance with this agreement, a 'Revolving Fund' has been constituted in the SME Foundation as per the advice of the Finance Department. Entrepreneurs of potential sectors, sub-sectors and clusters, clientele groups, members of associations and chambers and women entrepreneurs will get loans from the revolving fund under the credit wholesaling program of the foundation.
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Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah, secretary of the Financial Institutions Department of the Ministry of Finance was present as the chief guest at the contract signing presided over by the SME Foundation chairman.
Professor Dr MD Masudur Rahman, Khairuzzaman Mozumder, additional secretary of Finance Division, Ministry of Finance; AKM Sajedur Rahman Khan, deputy governor Bangladesh Bank; Khwaja Shahriar, managing director of Lankabangla Finance Limited; Md Kamruzzaman Khan, head of SME of Lankabangla Finance Limited and officials of various banks and financial institutions were present as a special guest.
Earlier for expansion of the loan programme in rural areas under the Financial Incentive Package targeting Cottage & SME industries to improve the quality of life of marginalised people in rural areas during the Novel Corona Virus situation (COVID-19) in 2020-21 and 2021-22, two financial years in favor of the SME Foundation, a total of 300 (three hundred) crores of taka were disbursed in two phases, which were successfully distributed at the entrepreneurial level before the specified time.
