Ha Tam

Vietnam’s risks ceding ground in financial leasing activities

March 19, 2024 | 10:15

Vietnam’s small-scale financial leasing market is being overwhelmed by foreign businesses, with local counterparts expecting a more favourable playing field fuelled by the new Law on Credit Institutions.

Real estate bailout “perilous” for system

February 23, 2023 | 17:13

As more than $52 billion is due to banks and bondholders from real estate corporations, not to mention the requirement for additional loans, experts say a purge in the real estate market is unavoidable.

Expanded credit probable for January

January 17, 2023 | 11:11

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will likely provide commercial banks with more credit room in January.

Breakthrough M&A deals expected in banking and finance

December 09, 2021 | 13:30

Many large deals are on the horizon in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in banking and finance in 2022, with transaction values of billion of dollars.

Compliance risk blocking banks from going digital

October 10, 2019 | 16:16

While digital transformation has become an inevitable trend for development in today’s modern world, compliance risk, however, might pose remarkable hurdles to banks wishing to go digital.

Customers falling for fake bank clerk phishing scam

August 26, 2019 | 18:59

Banks' customers are being targeted by new phishing attacks by criminals posing as bank officials and asking customers for their OTP.

China dumping US bonds: implications for Vietnam

October 31, 2018 | 09:00

Experts are weighing how China's dumping on US treasury bonds would impact Vietnam’s development.

Profit of Agribank surges ahead on the threshold of equitisation

October 15, 2018 | 11:09

Agribank’s revenue in the first half of 2018 increased by 37 per cent, a positive signal before its IPO, but problems with capital pose a threat to success.