As CBN flirts with recapitalization, RMB assures capacity to stimulate growth

&NewLine;<p>Rand Merchant Bank&comma; RMB&comma; African leading corporate and investment banking service provider  has assured customers and stakeholders of its ability to drive the economy by stimulating real sector growth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This assurance came at an Economic and Business Conference&NewLine;Overview&comma; organized by the bank which held at Oriental Hotel&comma; Lagos&comma; with a&NewLine;theme&colon; Unlocking Real Sector Growth to drive Sustainable Economic Development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In his welcome address&comma; the Bank’s Chief Executive&NewLine;Officer&comma; Michael Larbie&comma; established that growing the economy requires all&NewLine;efforts&period; He therefore&comma; urged players in the private sector to support&NewLine;government for the required growth to create jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He emphasized the bank’s consciousness of client’s expectations&NewLine;and promised its commitment to timely financial service delivery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Okechukwu Enelamah&comma; immediate past Minister of Industry&comma;&NewLine;Trade and Investment&comma; in his keynote address&comma; maintained that the first tenure&NewLine;of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has laid the foundation for&NewLine;industrialization with visible evidences in the country’s foreign exchange&NewLine;stability&comma; improved micro enterprises&comma; consumer confidence and consolidated&NewLine;partnership with institutions and governments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He however advised that efforts at Buhari’s &nbsp&semi;2<sup>nd<&sol;sup> tenure should be concentrated at&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;doubling down radical exemption and&NewLine;improvement on the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While the country’s infrastructural deficit is over&NewLine;&dollar;200 billion&comma; radical private sector participation is a way to go&comma;” Enelamah&NewLine;stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Happening at a time Central Bank of Nigeria’s recapitalization&NewLine;disclosure has triggered apprehension and suspicion of distress in the banking&NewLine;sector&comma; the assurance from RMB seems the needed oxygen for industrial players&NewLine;to survive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;