MTI Banking and Financial Services Forum today

MTI Consulting announced its Banking and Financial Services Forum. Themed ‘Re-strategising: Financial Services in Sri Lanka”, the Forum focuses on identifying key challenges faced by banks and finance companies in Sri Lanka and the avenues to be addressed in overcoming these challenges from a strategic business perspective.

The event will be held today, Wednesday the 9 March at the Taj Samudra Colombo from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.

The Forum will feature a core presentation by MTI CEO Hilmy Cader, followed by a panel discussion. The discussion will be driven by eminent corporate personalities in the Sri Lankan business field – namely Dharma Dheerasinghe – Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Rajendra Theagarajah– MD/ CEO, Hatton National Bank, Kapila Jayawardena, Group CEO of LOLC and Hans Wijayasuriya – Group CEO of Dialog Axiata. The discussion will be moderated by Mano Tittawella, Associate of MTI Corporate Finance.

Following the end of a 30 year war, Sri Lanka is high on optimism and intent as it gears itself to meet the economic development initiatives taken by the government. In order to facilitate these growth plans, the role of the financial services industry needs to change – acting as a catalyst in converting the optimism and intent within the current economy into ‘reality’. However, the sector needs to stay focused on the bottom line, developing strategy to compete on cost effective methods of generating sustainable demand for their services.

The MTI Banking & Financial Services Forum will take an outside-in look at the entire industry, drawing from the cross border/cross industry learnings gathered from MTI’s global consulting experience.

The aim of the Forum is to challenge the conventional methods of banking which are prevalent in the industry, highlighting the changes required in areas such as service quality, work ethics and brand architecture of the products and services offered by the financial institutions. The presentation and discussion will also touch on the opportunities available in areas of mobile banking, focused R&D and CRM practices within the financial services sector. Commenting on the objectives of the Forum, MTI’s CEO Hilmy Cader said that “Corporates in the financial services industry must gear themselves with innovative strategies, in order to meet the demands of the growing economy. With the upturn that is expected in the next few years, this will be crucial to their survival”.

MTI Consulting is an international strategic management consultancy with operations in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Dubai, Pakistan, India, Malaysia and UK. Having provided solutions for over 400 projects in 40 countries- across four continents, MTI’s Solutions include Brand Management, Strategic Planning, Re-Structuring, Marketing, Sales and Channel Management and Service Quality. MTI Consulting recently launched four subsidiaries in the areas of Corporate Finance, Technology Solutions, Market Research and HRM Solutions.

The Sponsors for the forum are Wijeya Newspapers, ART TV, Sign tech, Pan-Audio and Taj Samudra hotel. The event is managed by Knowledge Conglomerate.