26-03-2021 08:00
Customers can now open a bank account on the VietinBank iPay Mobile app easily and conveniently from anywhere with the e-Know-Your-Customer (eKYC) solution. They can also have a chance to join VietinBank’s promotion programme named “eKYC – Easy registration – Win a luxury car.”
26-03-2021 08:00
The newly-launched mobile money pilot programme is expected to heat up competition for domestic players but also open collaboration opportunities to cash in on the niche market.
25-03-2021 18:12
The latest information about Vietnam's investment landscape in diverse areas received exposure at a recent investment webinar hosted by Standard Chartered Bank for clients based in Vietnam and overseas.
25-03-2021 15:58
Credit growth is expected to reach 12-13 per cent this year despite modest growth in the first quarter.
25-03-2021 14:00
Vietnam is seen as one of the most important investment destinations for Japan. Ikenaga Azusa, representative for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) in Hanoi, told VIR’s Nguyen Thu about the trend of Japanese investors through its newly-released report on overseas business operations by Japanese manufacturers.
25-03-2021 08:30
Several international banks, particularly from Taiwan, are boosting their financing offers to Vietnam’s brokerages, betting on the tremendous growth of the financial market.
25-03-2021 07:00
Fintech companies, banks, and other financial institutions are making great strides to go paperless, eliminating physical movements and paperwork, and becoming more cost-effective through electronic processes.
24-03-2021 18:43
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has slashed rates three times, in March, May, and October to aid the economy. The refinancing and rediscounting rate are now at a new record low of 4.0 per cent and 2.5 per cent, respectively, while interbank rates and bond yields have experienced a downward trend since June.
24-03-2021 09:57
Amid ever-growing demands from consumers in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, BIDV – one of the four leading state commercial bank– has rolled out its new SmartBanking digital banking service to optimise user experience.
20-03-2021 13:30
Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the long-term local and foreign currency deposit ratings, and where applicable, the issuer and senior unsecured ratings of 15 banks in Vietnam at Ba3 positive.
20-03-2021 10:07
Despite chronic overloading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange recently, a series of stocks are still making their way to the main bourse in March, putting more pressure on the exchange.
19-03-2021 10:35
With outstanding competitive advantages, TNEX – Vietnam's first digital-only bank – is enabling 60 per cent of the unbanked population to access financial services, creating new standards for innovative banking and lifestyle ecosystems in the country’s digital transformation drive.
19-03-2021 08:00
In line with the growing trend of banking stocks, National Citizen Commercial Joint Stock Bank (NCB, HNX: NVB) was one of the most impressive gainers on the stock market. Given its plan to raise capital at the beginning of the year, NVB shares are expected to become one of the hottest banking stocks this year.
17-03-2021 15:31
Mobile transactions in Vietnam are expected to increase by 300 per cent between 2021 and 2025, led by strong growth in mobile payments, as revealed in the second edition of the Fintech and Digital Banking 2025 (Asia-Pacific) IDC InfoBrief, commissioned by Backbase.
17-03-2021 15:30
Yesterday (March 16) KDI Holdings officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sacombank as financial strategic partner and two of the world's leading hotel management and operation groups – Meliá Hotels International and Rosewood Hotel Group – for the grand Vega City Nha Trang project, the first and only integrated art-resort-entertainment complex on the coast of Nha Trang.