uniBank wins SME Award

Accra, June 30, GNA - uniBank Ghana Limited has won the Enterprise Category Award of the first Africa Leadership Award of the Graduate School of Governance and Leadership held in Accra.

The bank emerged winner showcasing its commitment and support to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana for timely support to SMEs to grow their businesses leading to job creation and economic empowerment.

Samuel Sakyi-Hyde, Head of SME Banking, who received the award on behalf of the bank, expressed delight that the bank's dedication to its SME customers had been acknowledged and lauded the hard work of staff in delivering quality service to the clientele over the years.

According to him, a core aspect of the bank's primary focus was to provide a comprehensive range of financial solutions and products to its SME customers and this had positioned the banks as a key player in SME financing on the local market and distinguished it as a viable partner to facilitate the growth and expansion of SME business, he said.

He said the bank had taken further initiative to increase its support for SME businesses this year by increasing its loans and advance portfolio for the 2011 fiscal year.

This strategy in addition to innovative activities like the department's monthly mass marketing campaigns, were to consolidate the bank's efforts to capture a larger share of the SME market in Ghana.

uniBank is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary under the theme: "A Decade of an Indigenous Bank's Solid Footprints in Ghana".

At the launch of the anniversary early this year, Opoku-Gyamfi Boateng, Board Chairman of the bank, said the bank's commitment to the SME segment would remain paramount in the next decade.

He said the bank would leverage on its state-of-the-art Information Technology (IT) infrastructure to develop a lot of e-banking product in the ensuing years.

The awards ceremony was organized under the auspices of the Graduate School of Governance and Leadership to recognize contribution of individuals and organizations that have redefined leadership to mean service to people, communities and nations.