CIBN holds annual lecture to address economic challenges

As part of efforts to address the country’s economic development challenges, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has firmed up arrangement to host its 2018 Annual Lecture themed “Of Banks and Bankers: Finance and the Challenge of Economic Development in Nigeria”.

The Lecture which is scheduled for June 28, 2018 would be delivered by Professor Kingsley C. Moghalu, Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the founder of Sogato Strategies LLC while Mr. Kyari A. Bukar, the Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and former MD/CEO of the Central Securities Clearing System Limited (CSCS) will Chair the occasion.

Other panelists at the Lecture include Mr. Chinedu Ikwudinma, MD/CEO of NOVA Merchant Bank Limited; Mr. Kunle Oyinloye, MD/CEO of the Infrastructure Bank Plc; Mrs. Eileen Shaiyen, Founder/CEO of H. Pierson Associates Limited; Dr. Andrew Nevin, Advisory Partner/Chief Economist of PwC Nigeria; Mr. Johnson Chukwu, MD/CE of Cowry Assets Management Limited, and Mr. Ingo Herbert, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The programme will highlight the regulatory and institutional measures taken by major stakeholders in Nigeria’s financial services sector towards minimizing the challenges in the country’s financial economy, the effectiveness of such measures and the steps required to close existing gaps between Nigerian banks and bankers.

Expected participants at the lecture are Managing Directors/Chief Executives of banks and other financial institutions top level and senior executives of banks and other financial institutions, their subsidiaries, directors of regulatory institutions, compliance officers of banks, private sector operators, consumers of financial services, civil society and representatives of the diplomatic community as well as CIBN Members.

The Annual Lecture which has become the most important annual forum of the Institute brings together policy makers, regulators and operators in the financial services industry to share experiences and exchange ideas on contemporary issues of common interest and has had distinguished and eminent professionals as guest lecturers in the past.