Headline MediaTitle Date Section Page No Language Journalist Frequency IDS hopes SME Bank will help Sabah traders Daily Express (KK) 15 Oct 2014 Color Nation Circulation 2 Readership English ArticleSize Chris Maskilone AdValue Daily (EM) PR Value Black/white 30,557 97,836 142 cm² RM 293 RM 879 IDS hopes SME Bank will help Sabah traders Chris Maskilone from the Small Medium Enterprise under the able leadership of Chief Development Studies (IDS) Sabah hopes Development Bank Malaysia B^rhad Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Hj. Aman, was the SME Bank will give special attention (SME Bank), Kuala Lumpur led by Group under th^ right administrative track and and assistance to local Sabahan entrepre Managing Director, Datuk Mohd Radzif progressing well towards a developed Mohd Yunus at Wisma Se'dia here status by the year 2020 especially in the neurs. implementation of socioinfrastructure Chairman, Datuk Seri Clarence Tuesday. Together with Mohd Ra'dzif were projects under the SDC. Bongkos Malakun also hoped the bank The SME Bank Group later also met would be understanding to the needs of Nurbayu Kasim Chang, Head of KK local small and medium enterprises, Enterprise Centre and Zaki Hamat, the with IDS Chief Executive Officer and which require much needed financial Head of East Malaysia Regional Centre as Executive Director, Datuk Mohd Hasnol support from financial institutions, espe well as Asbullah Adnan, Director for MohdAyub. Development Banking and Liaison Both Hasnol and Mohd Radzif agreed cially the SME Bank. Towards this end, on behalf of IDS, he Department and Azura Norden, Head of to conduct a jointworkshop or seminar as well as to condufct a jointstudy on the expressed his appreciation on the role SME Corporate Office. Malakun also briefed them on the role special requirements of Sabahan entre that SME Bank had been playing in of IDS as the "thinktank" of the State preneurs and in finding ways and means Sabah. government and also on the implemen to assist them to develop a competitive He said this when receiving a courtesy call from a group of senior executives tation of some projects under the Sabah edge under the "Blue Ocean Strategy " Development Corridor, concept, as adopted by the Federal gov KOTA KINABALU: The Institute for He also commented that thje State, ernment administration.