14-11-2011 05:37
Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Vietnam’s banking industry last week has received sideways glances from leading economists in the country.
07-11-2011 08:30
Foreign investors are warning of a slump in foreign direct investment if Vietnam’s policy-makers green-light a controversial rule.
07-11-2011 07:01
Concerns are growing over commercial banks’ enormous purchase of government bonds.
Ho Chi Minh City’s National Assembly deputy Tran Du Lich said looking at the government’s 2011-2015 government bond issuance programme, many deputies were worried that enterprises would continue finding it hard to borrow from banks, as they did in 2010.
06-11-2011 20:55
In October, Vietnam’s stock market was mainly in correction mode with falling liquidity.
02-11-2011 19:13
Industry insiders are digging into banking sector restructuring.
27-10-2011 15:45
Europe sealed a last-ditch deal Thursday to fix its festering debt crisis, shoring up its bailout fund, pledging new funds for Greece and pushing banks to share the pain at a summit vital to the health of the global economy.
24-10-2011 07:02
Vietnam’s banking sector has enjoyed a boom time in recent years, but low asset quality and a particularly high ratio of non-performing loans, has triggered great concern, writes Vietcombank Securities analyst Quach Thuy Linh.
23-10-2011 09:43
Europe will find a cure for its debt crisis between now and Wednesday, the leaders of Germany and France vowed after fixing plans to recapitalise banks out of pocket over Greece.
22-10-2011 10:13
Industry experts are weighing up what to do with banking sector restructuring.
20-10-2011 15:39
The State Bank of Vietnam will continue to closely monitor the monetary market and the banking sector to discover violations and help banks deal with liquidity-related problems, the bank said.
18-10-2011 20:13
With the State Bank of Vietnam today increasing the interbank dollar exchange rate for the eighth time this month, the ceiling price at banks rose to VND20,930.
17-10-2011 07:00
Higher capital costs are leaving small banks with liquidity difficulties.
13-10-2011 17:54
Sixteen large banks on October 12 signed an agreement to keep their deposit interest rates under 14 per cent for one-month terms, and 6 per cent for non-term rates.
13-10-2011 08:04
The European Union pressed banks to urgently beef up their coffers against the crisis as it raced to revamp the eurozone debt rescue fund after winning a reprieve from Slovakia.
10-10-2011 16:15
European shares firmed on Monday as investors gave a cautious welcome to a Franco-German pact to support troubled banks, while became the first lender to succumb to the eurozone debt crisis.