SME Bank Talk : "Your One-stop Finance and Business Development Centre" (9 December 2005)
Date : 9 December 2005
Venue : Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC), 1 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, 11909 Bayan Lepas, Penang
The Software Consortium of Penang (SCoPe), in collaboration with Invest-In-Penang Berhad, SMIDEC, Matrade and Penang Skils Development Centre (PSDC) organised a talk cum dialogue session that aimed at creating awareness of the newly set-up SME Bank and how best it could help businesses expand and grow as well as assist to nurture start-ups and budding entrepreneurs who face financial constraints.
The objectives of the talk were :
To provide information and create awareness of the availability of funding schemes.
To introduce and pronote local softare develpment in the State of Penang.
To strengthen the competitiveness of small and medium businesses through the dissemination of information on access to funding and grants.
To create a platform for discussion and networking between small and medium businesses and government agencies and organisations.