More than 150 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have participated in the SMEs Sustainable Exporters Programme under a collaboration between the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) and CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. The programme’s objective is to help SMEs become agile, and resilient to unprecedented risks while adopting sustainability principles and ways to start by conducting due diligence on their value chain. The programme managed to help SMEs to build more robust and all-inclusive risk preparedness and risk management mechanisms. CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd chief executive officer (CEO), Ahmad Shahriman Mohd Shariff, said the programme managed to help SMEs to build more robust and all-inclusive risk preparedness and risk management mechanisms. Matrade deputy CEO, Sharimahton Mat Saleh said the programme will be scaled up to reach out to more SMEs especially from the East Coast, and Sabah and Sarawak.

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