By Babajide Komolafe

The Bankers’ Committee in conjunction with Euromoney Training is to organise an intensive capacity building programme for banking professionals, officials of the regulatory authority, government parastatals, operators and players in the power and transport sectors.

The programme is part of the on going initia-tives of the Committee to boost economic develop-ment.

It would be recalled that the Committee held the second retreat on economic development.

A key outcome of the retreat was the recognition of an urgent need for capacity building in the financial services sector in a bid to understand and provide services to the real sector – with a focus on power and transport infrastructure financing.

Consequently, the Committee is organizing an intensive capacity building programme for banking professionals, officials of the regulatory authority, government parastatals, operators and players in the power and transport sectors.

The programme will be facilitated by Euromoney Training EMEA, which has over 22 years experience in providing business-to-business financial programmes globally.

It will focus on power and transport project finance and PPPs.

Participants will gain an appreciation of funding structures, sources of funds, and project out-comes and performance; the key risks and critical concerns in project financing; sources of finance and alternative sources of finance are available; and gain a better understanding of the key provisions in the commercial and financial contract framework necessary to support successful financing for power and transport infrastructure financing.

Comprising of two session, the first holds from May 16th to 19th while the second would hold from May 23rd to 26th.

It is anticipated that a minimum of 250 persons will have benefitted from the programme, creating a critical mass of project finance specialists positioned to support the real sector.

The Bankers’ Committee restates the vision for a Nigerian financial sector that plays a dual role of enabler as well as engine of real sector growth and acts as an intermediary and contributor to economic growth and financial stability.