Officials of Doha Bank and CNA-Q at the signing ceremony.
Doha Bank, the leading private sector bank in Qatar, and College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q), Qatar’s premiere comprehensive technical college, have announced a partnership that will see the two organisations working together to enhance the knowledge-based business advantages available to Doha Bank’s small and medium enterprise (SME) clients.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at Doha Bank’s headquarters between Suresh Bajpai Head of Retail Banking at Doha Bank, and Dr Ken MacLeod, President, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar.
Dr Seetharaman said: “Doha Bank is proud to be an active corporate citizen in Qatar and this partnership with CNA-Q will support the bank’s strategic SME clients as they seek new and more innovative ways of building and retaining market share as well as seeking competitive or operational advantages in their specific areas of expertise.
“With the support of CNA-Q and by making its global expertise and credentials available to the Bank’s clients, Doha Bank is confident that many of our SME clients will be able to derive significant knowledge-based value from the various seminars, workshops and academic courses that will be available to business owners and principal executives during the course of the year and beyond.”
Dr MacLeod said: “CNA-Q is Qatar’s premier comprehensive technical college and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in Qatar and the region. With four core programme areas covering health sciences, information technology, engineering and business studies, CNA-Q has the academic credentials and expertise to support some of Qatar’s leading SMEs in these key areas. In addition, through this partnership, Doha Bank and CNA-Q can help the bank’s clients and SMEs in general to focus on building their business knowledge across various organisational levels.”
The College will, through this partnership with Doha Bank, offer part-time corporate courses that are tailored to respond to the unique training needs of organisations through the corporate training division at CNA-Q.
Doha Bank’s SME unit, which is called Tatweer, works with small and medium businesses with key financial services, led by an advisory approach. Tatweer provides financing for clients to meet various operational needs and also offers a range of products and services to enable growth and improve efficiency. Some key financial products and services include financing capital expenditure, and working capital requirements and overseas trade financing such as import and export requirements.
Doha Bank also works with SMEs that qualify under the Al Dhameen Programme which is a credit guarantee programme introduced by Qatar Development Bank to finance SMEs in Qatar in collaboration with leading banks in the country such as Doha Bank. For more information on Tatweer, email [email protected] or call 44456000. For details on CNA-Programs, visit www.cna-qatar.com
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