06-03-2017 09:21
Japanese enterprises in banking and finance are now the biggest foreign shareholders in Vietnamese banks, financial and financial leasing companies, and their Vietnamese partners highly regard their expertise and support.
01-03-2017 07:00
Banks’ favour for lending to real estate is the reason for high lending interest rates.
28-02-2017 12:45
Up to two thirds of domestic financial leasing companies operate at a loss and are riddled with inefficiencies.
10-11-2016 16:59
The recent ascension of real estate magnate Donald Trump to US Presidency casts long shadows over the global financial market. Senior financial expert Nguyen Tri Hieu shares with VIR’s Ha Tam his views on the possible impacts on Vietnam’s financial and monetary market.
05-08-2016 20:38
The recent hacking accident at national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines rang the alarm for the local banking system, as many of its members have been keeping expenditure to modernise their Core Banking system to a minimum.
25-05-2016 13:17
The Federal Reserve’s possible raising of the interest rate in June may not cause the USD/VND exchange rate to fluctuate too much, according to some experts.
01-12-2015 18:32
The revised Civil Code adopted by the National Assembly on November 24 clearly stated that negotiated interest rate must be controlled below 20 per cent a year.
27-06-2015 11:00
Without a specific set of laws ruling the handling of bad debts, both banks and the Vietnam Asset Management Company have their hands full trying to resolve a mountain of bad debts.
10-05-2015 16:00
It proves a challenging task for banks to further relax lending rates amid the slowing growth in bank deposits and the central bank’s recent adjustment of the exchange rate.
27-03-2015 17:00
The VND30 trillion ($1.4 billion) bailout package to support the real estate market has achieved little progress against the ambitious targets set at its launching.
18-03-2015 11:00
The Ministry of Industry and Trade have called on domestic companies to take measures to break the dominance of foreign-invested firms over the local husbandry sector.
31-05-2014 17:00
Bank credit has grown modestly so far this year, leading industry insiders to contemplate how to further boost it.
19-05-2014 14:13
It appears that many foreign players are mulling alternatives to joining with local partners to bolster efficiency when it comes to mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector.
18-12-2013 15:47
Vietnam is seeing an increasing trend of banks changing their brand identity and/or managers to bolster efficiency.
17-12-2013 17:10
Efforts are underway to ensure the healthy performance of banks.