This study focuses on the contribution of Untied Bank for Africa to the Development of Small Scale Enterprises. It aims at evaluating the contribution of United Banks in financing small scale businesses, identifying challenges of accessing bank loans as well as possible factors hindering implementation of credit policies by banks. To achieve this, the survey research design was adopted with oral interviews and questionnaires to elicit responses. The simple percentages and chi – square (c2) test statistics were used in analyzing the data and determining the tenability of the hypotheses formulated. Unaffordable terms of capital, challenges in accessing bank loans and advances and factors hindering implementation of credit policies were found to be more challenging, the researcher recommends that banks should make available capital an affordable terms ensure regular routine check on businesses, educate entrepreneurs through managerial workshops and government should enforce implementation of credit to policy to boost the development of small businesses.
In both developed and developing countries, the small scale industry is seen as the vehicle for rapid industrialization, sustainable economic growth and development, poverty alleviation as well as the seed bed of innovation and employment generation. It goes without saying therefore, that small scale enterprises have the potential of becoming the engine of the economic growth in any country (http://www.snbd.com, July 8 2010).
Because of this paramount importance of small scale businesses, there has been a pressing need for the involvement of banks in financing its development in Nigeria and Kaduna in particular. This is due to the fact that banks loans constitute the most important source of institutional financing for both start-up and growing enterprises.
It is the realization of this fact that made the government to establish various schemes and programmers in the past to enhance credit availability to small scale enterprise in Nigeria. In recent time now however, the Nigeria bankers committee in 1999, approved the scheme requiring all banks in Nigeria to set aside 10 percent of their profit before Tax (PBT) for equity development in small scale and medium scale industry.
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