04-03-2014 13:57
Vietnamese property developer Nam Long, which leads in affordable housing development, has just announced six new corporate investors including the World Bank’s private sector lending arm IFC.
27-02-2014 11:00
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is financing Nam Long Investment Corp to build 8,000 apartments for mid-income homebuyers in Ho Chi Minh City by 2017.
25-12-2013 10:13
Philippe L. Ahoua, the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Asia Pacific Region Treasury Client Solutions Spokesperson, has detailed the corporation’s intentions to invest in Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the near future.
27-08-2013 10:16
Rachel Freeman, IFC manager for Access to Finance Advisory Services in East Asia Pacific shared how movables lending could help resolve banks’ non-performing loans and expand financing to small and medium enterprises on the sideline of the international symposium on movables lending organized by IFC and the Vietnamese Banking Association on August 22-23 in Ho Chi Minh City.
20-08-2013 16:12
The current economic slowdown is not only an opportunity for Vietnam to restructure the economy in general, but also an opportunity for enterprises to pay more attention to sustainable growth. International Finance Corporation’s vice president for Asia Pacific Karin Finkelston, shares with VIR.
19-08-2013 14:55
Simon Andrews, IFC Regional Manager emphasized: “Adopting international standards of corporate governance improves a company's ability to access finance and reduces its cost of capital. This gives a company a critical advantage in today's competitive economic environment.”
05-07-2013 17:00
Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, better known as VietinBank, today received a $120 million trade finance facility from International Finance Corporation that allow the bank to help local companies increase their imports and exports, generate foreign exchange, and create jobs.
03-06-2013 10:00
One year has passed since the Consortium of local and international business associations and chambers of commerce took over the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) coordination role in the Vietnam Business Forum (VBF). With a mid-term meeting slated for June 3, VBF Consortium co-chair Alain Cany speaks with VIR about the impact of the move.
24-05-2013 14:00
International Finance Corporation will help promote energy efficiency in Vietnam’s building sector.
02-05-2013 09:20
Melrose Pyrotechnics of the US with a spectacular display overwhelmed four other teams to rank first at the 2013 Da Nang International Fireworks Competition (DIFC 2013) that closed on April 30.
22-01-2013 10:18
Non-performing loans (NPLs) may continue to rise, even as the State Bank works to resolve the crisis.
24-12-2012 10:16
IFC has awarded the “Best GTFP issuing bank in East Asia and the Pacific” to Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank
10-12-2012 14:10
Non-performing loan and cross-ownership are two big issues that Vietnam has to clean up in its banking sector to improve investors’ confidence in the economy.
06-12-2012 17:22
Vietnam improved its ranking in respect to tax facilitation as seen in the recent World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Doing Business 2013 Report, but it remains near the bottom among ASEAN countries. Hoang Thi Lan Anh, deputy head of General Department of Taxation (GDT)’s Reform and Modernisation Department, sheds some light on the matter.
03-12-2012 10:04
Vietnamese firms are expected to use energy more efficiently and save money.