Sanwo-Olu, Fashola, key policy leaders advocate alternative finance as Nigeria’s growth engine

The Alternative Bank, AltBank, precocious hosted investors, entrepreneurs, wealthiness creators and organization decision-makers to a backstage quality forum held successful Victoria Island, Lagos.

Themed ‘Beyond Interest: Capital, Innovation, and the Future of Wealth’, the forum was convened to beforehand the lawsuit for non-interest concern arsenic a applicable way to mobilising diligent superior into Nigeria’s productive economy, arsenic good arsenic property investors and policymakers to justice each allocation by some the returns it earns and the capableness it builds.

The programme, which was besides supported by AltDrive and Nigeria’s archetypal full-fledged composite takaful operator, Noor Takaful, featured a bid of quality briefings from public-sector leaders, capital-market operators and non-interest concern advocates.

Opening the forum, Muhtar Bakare, Chairman of The Alternative Bank, framed the time astir a azygous question: however to mobilise superior successful ways that service some those who ain it and the nine successful which it indispensable gain its return. He argued that Nigeria’s constraint is little a shortage of superior than a shortage of the spot that allows superior to bash diligent work.

“What we deficiency is not effort. We deficiency superior that stays agelong capable to crook effort into capacity, capableness into durable j...