Seylan Bank Presents ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs’ Webinar to Support Businesswomen

Continuing its agenda of supporting SMEs and women entrepreneurs, Seylan Bank, the Bank with a Heart, together with the Chamber of Commerce, conducted a webinarfeaturing four accomplished small and medium businesswomen. The webinar was themed ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurship’ and highlighted different perspectives that are useful to build and expand a successful business.

As a leading financial service provider, Seylan Bank focuses on supporting entrepreneurs and SMEs in order to open new avenues and grow their businesses. Recognising the potential in the women entrepreneur sector, Seylan Bank has invested on empowering them through knowledge sharing and skills development,towards contributing to the development of the economy.

“We at Seylan, consider our SME sector as the backbone of the country. Generally, the topic of empowering SMEs or women, is limited to either women in the corporate sector or a few selected traditional SMEs. Identifying that there is more potential with many other women entrepreneurs the webinar was essentially targeted at a selection of businesses led by women who seek new opportunities in a wide array of industries. The panel who conducted the webinar reflected this objective. Women entrepreneurs face unique challenges, as they are also multi- tasking at different levels. These are rarely brought forward or resolved in forums. The experiences that were shared by our speakers helped existing and potential women entrepreneurs who experience similar challenges to understand how to overcome issues faced when building or expanding businesses. Our message to them is that Seylan Bank’s doors are open to women in any industry, who are passionate about building their business and taking it to the next level,” commented Gamika De Silva, Assistant General Manager - Marketing and Sales, Seylan Bank.