23-05-2011 17:30
Three banks of Citi, DBS and HSBC today joined together to provide a syndicated loan, to Vietnam Airlines for the purchase of eight Airbus A321-231S from Airbus.
23-05-2011 15:23
A number of commercial banks have begun buying gold at above market prices to encourage gold depositors to convert gold holdings to Vietnamese dong savings.
23-05-2011 09:17
People are still shunning Vietnamese dong deposits and smiling on banking in US dollars and gold this year, causing local currency liquidity problems for some local banks.
21-05-2011 09:39
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has purchased $1 billion from commercial banks since late April.
18-05-2011 14:07
Local banks are scaling up personal loan lending rates to cover escalating operational costs.
18-05-2011 12:52
A surprise move yesterday which saw several commercial banks raising dollar selling prices to the maximum permitted level and then reducing prices late in the afternoon triggered concerns about dollar trading in the system.
17-05-2011 16:59
Vietcombank (VCB) and Vietinbank (CTG) climbed despite the market continuing to fall today.
16-05-2011 07:09
Local commercial joint stock banks are backing away from courting strategic foreign partners this year.
13-05-2011 09:54
Smartlink Card Services Joint Stock Co (Smartlink) and its members have successfully connected with the Vietnam Bank Card Co (VNBC) network, allowing customers to use the VNBC’s ATM system, the companies have announced.
12-05-2011 21:22
Just one third of Vietnamese small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can get loans from banks, according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
12-05-2011 14:51
Techcombank, one of Vietnam’s leading joint-stock commercial banks, has selected Experian, the global information services company, to provide customer credit risk, analytics and services to support its growing customer portfolio.
10-05-2011 11:55
The State Bank’s new regulations banning gold deposits and credit activities have left a problem for banks with stockpiled gold.
10-05-2011 09:05
Central bankers are pressing advanced economies to gradually improve their budgets while fast growing emerging nations must guard against overheating, ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday.
09-05-2011 17:00
A declining US dollar price on the free market and at commercial banks has given imported goods a competitive edge over their domestic counterparts, industry insiders say.
09-05-2011 16:34
The US dollar exchange rate in banks has risen higher than in the free market, prompting people and enterprises to trade with banks rather than the black market.