its horses for courses for banks

It’s horses for courses for banks

Industry players are taking different approaches to banking authorities’ loan interest rate cuts.
banks look for transparency

Banks look for transparency

Banks want to know businesses’ problems before lending out of bad debt fears.
banks streamlined to succeed

Banks streamlined to succeed

Senior economic expert Le Xuan Nghia digs into the banking sector’s on-going restructuring process to forecast the sector’s future.
profits give banks the flip flops

Profits give banks the flip flops

Banks are anxious about darkening 2012 profit targets.
100 million commercial centre built in hcm city

$100 million commercial centre built in HCM City

lending costs again prove a headache

Lending costs again prove a headache

Industry players are mulling sourcing dollar loans amid high local currency lending rates.
jury out on interest rates

Jury out on interest rates

Ho Chi Minh City University of Banking’s Business Management Faculty head Dr. Le Tham Duong tells VIR his views about interest rates for 2011.
steady approach needed for monetary tightening

Steady approach needed for monetary tightening

Monetary policies need to be further tightened. But they need to conform to the business development cycle with an aim to gradually revive macroeconomic stability, National Financial Supervisory Commission deputy chairman Dr. Le Xuan Nghia tells VIR.
gold businesses look to shine

Gold businesses look to shine

Account-based gold trading should be given the go-ahead through forming a national gold exchange to be governed by the State Bank or one industry leader, Vietnam Gold Business Association (VGBA) chairman Nguyen Thanh Long tells VIR.
banks atm policy change to hit consumers

Banks’ ATM policy change to hit consumers

Banks are weighing up hiking ATM cash withdrawal fees for other banks’ cardholders.
big interest in stabilising financial market

Big interest in stabilising financial market

Industry insiders have suggested measures to help bring order to the domestic financial market.
banks start to look offshore

Banks start to look offshore

Scores of local banks are considering hiking foreign partner stake to raise charter capital.
vinafreight wraps up its ambition in a nice package

Vinafreight wraps up its ambition in a nice package

Vinafreight currently holds a 12 per cent air cargo services market share in Vietnam. Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association chairman and Vinafreight’s chairman Do Xuan Quang tells VIR about the firm’s ambitious development plans.
banks fall short of profit targets

Banks fall short of profit targets

Scores of local banks have found it hard to achieve 2010 profit targets despite modest ambitions.
raising chartered capital is key to sharpen competitiveness

Raising chartered capital is key to sharpen competitiveness

Ho Chi Minh City Banking University’s Business Management Faculty head Le Tham Duong told VIR that banks still needed to fulfill their chartered capital raising obligations to enhance competitiveness, despite the State Bank recently extended the deadline by one year.