{"id":9610,"date":"2022-11-08T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T10:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2022-11-08T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T10:19:23","slug":"nigeria-african-development-bank-first-city-monument-bank-sign-agreement-for-50-million-line-of-credit-to-bolster-access-to-finance-for-small-medium-and-women-owned-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2022\/11\/08\/nigeria-african-development-bank-first-city-monument-bank-sign-agreement-for-50-million-line-of-credit-to-bolster-access-to-finance-for-small-medium-and-women-owned-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: African Development Bank, First City Monument Bank sign agreement for $50 million line of credit to bolster access to finance for small, medium and women-owned businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org<\/a>) has signed an agreement with First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for a $50 million line of credit to support access to finance for small and medium-sized and women-empowered enterprises.<\/p>\n

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FCMB will use the line of credit to expand lending activities that will boost the country\u2019s post-pandemic economic recovery and drive more inclusive and climate-resilient growth. It will focus on enterprises in Nigeria’s agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare and renewable energy sectors.<\/p>\n

The African Development Bank is also providing a complementary technical assistance package of $285,000 under its Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative. The grant funding, provided by the Women Entrepreneurship Finance Initiative (We-Fi), will support enhancing financial literacy, business management and entrepreneurial skills for women led businesses as well as strengthening FCMB\u2019s monitoring and reporting functions.<\/p>\n

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The Bank\u2019s support to FCMB will advance the objectives of the AFAWA initiative, which seeks to improve gender inclusivity by enhancing access to finance for women entrepreneurs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The African Development Bank\u2019s Director General for Nigeria, Lamin Barrow, said, \u201cThe Bank\u2019s support to FCMB will advance the objectives of the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative, which seeks to improve gender inclusivity by enhancing access to finance for women entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith at least 30 percent of the funding from the Line of Credit to be channelled to women owned businesses, FCMB will be better positioned to scale up the deployment of its tailored products and services to meet the needs of SMEs and women-owned businesses,” Barrow said.<\/p>\n

FCMB\u2019s Managing Director, Yemisi Edun, said, “We are happy to collaborate with the African Development Bank to create expanded opportunities and accelerate post-COVID-19 pandemic business recovery for SMEs and women-owned businesses in Nigeria through funding and technical support. We are intentional about collaboration that upskills entrepreneurs, drives industrialisation, and creates economic value, wealth and employment for Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that the agreement affirmed the African Development Bank\u2019s confidence in FCMB\u2019s growth potential and corporate governance structures.<\/p>\n

The project is expected to improve access to finance for at least 50 enterprises: 29 in the agribusiness and manufacturing sectors, 9 in renewable energy and 13 in the healthcare industry. It will create a minimum of 1000 jobs and enable roughly 14 female entrepreneurs to gain access to long-term funding.<\/p>\n

The African Development Bank anchors its current Nigeria strategy on two pillars: supporting infrastructure development and promoting social inclusion through agribusiness and skills development. Its current Nigeria portfolio comprises 53 operations with a total value of $4.5 billion. Thirty of these operations, with a value of $2.7 billion, are sovereign operations; the 23 non-sovereign operations have a value of $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has signed an agreement with First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for a $50 million line of credit to support access to finance for small and medium-sized and women-empowered enterprises.   FCMB will use the line of credit to expand lending activities that will boost the country\u2019s post-pandemic economic recovery and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,346,366,301,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-economy","category-events","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}