07-11-2016 11:13
This year 17 commercial banks had planned to increase their capital, but only two managed to do so.
31-10-2016 20:00
Sound measures to tackle the country’s mounting bad debts are available, and all it takes is having the guts to employ them, in an effort to systematically solve such issues for the sake of society and the economy.
25-10-2016 15:48
The Government will consider the possibility of letting poor performing commercial banks go bankrupt, instead of saving them as it did in the past, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has said.
10-10-2016 14:50
More than 500 households living along the banks of the Bo River in central Thua Thien-Hue have been threatened by serious landslides.
10-10-2016 11:32
Recently the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) told credit institutions to restrict loans to real estate projects to reduce risks and credit concentration in a single sector.
07-10-2016 17:00
German banks are keeping watch on the developing economic relations between Vietnam and Germany, in advance of European investments set to pour into the country when the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) takes effect.
01-10-2016 11:35
It is necessary for housing developers, contractors, banks and State agencies to co-operate in disclosing information about real estate projects to avoid panicking buyers, experts have said.
30-09-2016 08:56
Some major commercial banks are considering lowering lending interest rates after cutting dong deposit rates this week.
27-09-2016 10:33
Some major commercial banks lowered interest rates for deposits in dong with terms of less than a year, by 0.3-0.5 percentage points, on September 26.
27-09-2016 09:33
During the recent six months, Vietnam has seen the most exciting changes in high personnel at domestic banks, showing that the bank restructuring process is gaining momentum, according to newswire Cafef.vn.
21-09-2016 09:31
A proposal to use State funds to settle commercial banks' bad debts, as stated in the draft plan on economic restructuring for the 2016-2020 period, has been met with a cold shoulder.
20-09-2016 08:43
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Viet Nam might allow foreign investors to hold a stake exceeding the current cap of 30 per cent in domestic banks.
13-09-2016 09:16
The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) will continue to encourage the practice of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a solution to dealing with ailing credit institutions.
12-09-2016 16:16
Making an entrance into the Vietnamese banking landscape as representative offices, then moving up the ladder to become branches and 100 per cent foreign-owned units when the right time came and regulations allowed, Japanese and Korean financial institutions are taking careful steps to strengthen their footholds in the country. Not only do they want to cater to their home-based institutional clients, but also to the 90 million possible retail customers living in Vietnam. Trang Nguyen reports.
12-09-2016 09:43
Poor management of risks and weak supervision of banks were the roots of the largest problems that Việt Nam’s banking system is facing, experts said during a workshop.