We are a development bank. When we meet with new employees, I always tell them that, if they think they are working for a bank, they are in the wrong place. I make sure that they know that we are a development bank first and foremost. We see our role as much wider. In fact, that is part of our mandate.
The act that created our organization in 1995 stipulates that our role is to support entrepreneurship, not just to conduct financial transactions. The goal is to help the entrepreneur. We examine his activities and we try to develop the best possible services, whether that be through consulting services, by tailoring our financing, by coming up with innovative forms of financing, and so on.