Standard Life Organization Launches Standard Life Asset Loan Product, Digital Field Application Technology

By The9jaTrend

Standard Life Organization, (SLO), a Financial Institution with headquarters in Benin City, Edo State. Edo State capital  has launched its Standard Life Asset Loan Product and Digital Field Application Technology to boost small and medium scale enterprises in the State.

In his welcome speech at the launch ceremony of the project, the Organization's  Executive Director, Mr. Osazee Oyegue said one of the ways to get the people out of poverty is to empower them with the requisite tools and ideas to be viable and be self sufficient, thus, necessitating the launch of the programme.

Going further, Mr. Oyegue said, "Permit me to quote an old Italian adage which says, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time.

"'For us in Standard Life Organization, we believe that one of the most effective ways to create wealth, reduce poverty and inequality in our society is to empower the economically disadvantaged individuals with the necessary tools, materials, equipment, machine and other income generating assets which they can use to create wealth for themselves."

The Executive Director added that with the project, the organization is poised and determined to helping over 1,000,000 economically disadvantaged people in the next two years to create wealth themselves by empowering them with requisite tools and Income Generating Assets (IGA), thereby digitalizing their operations to provide hitch free transactions, reduce any operational burdens on the clients arising from full manual system. While the Digital Field Application which is currently facing app will in no distant time metamorphous into the client facing app.

He stressed further, "At the end of the launching, over 250 assets will be distributed to the organization's clients across 66 Branches within 12 States which have started in Benin where the Company's  headquarters is situated.

"l therefore called on the people of Edo State to constantly utilize the equipment as income generating tools and not to be converted to liabilities, stressing that his definition of asset is any tools or equipment that brings money to your pocket, while liability is the one that takes money away from your pocket," he concluded.