During the visit of Mr Hikmet Ersek, Western Union’s President/CEO to BOI, the two institutions reviewed the first ever Live Banking Panel that they jointly organized in Lagos in 2012 and discussed the next edition scheduled for November 2013 also in Lagos. The 2012 event featured more than 75 entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises drawn from Nigeria, some African countries and the United States of America who presented their business plans to a panel of bankers that included BOI and ten commercial banks . The event was designed to deepen access of SMEs to credit and strengthen their capacity.
