CEO confidence in growth down
January 22, 2013 | 15:28
A majority of CEOs say global economy to remain stalled this year, according to PwC’s 16th Annual Global CEO Survey.
SBV faces tricky juggling act
January 22, 2013 | 10:39
Christian Kamm, president of Kamm Investment, asks whether the State Bank’s dollarisation blitz can help get the gold market in order.
Mekong Cap aims to add value
January 14, 2013 | 14:29
Founded in 1993, An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company is the leading distributor and a manufacturer of crop protection chemicals (CPC) in Vietnam.
No easy medicine to cure banking woes
November 27, 2012 | 10:40
A crisis of bad debt is just one reason why Vietnam is restructuring its banking industry amid domestic and global economic turbulence. McKinsey & Company senior partner Joydeep Sengupta and partner Marco Breu offer their perspective on the challenges facing Vietnam’s banking sector.
Q&A: On Obama and Vietnam
November 19, 2012 | 09:59
With the US President Barrack Obama’s re-election, the US-backed consulting firm BowerGroupAsia’s president and CEO Ernie Bower told VIR’s Thanh Tung about how America’s evolving policies could impact on Asia and the two nations’ investment and trade cooperation.
Controlling credit still a priority
November 06, 2012 | 11:21
Tran Van Tan, head of credit office at the State Bank’s Credit Department, talks with VIR’s Trinh Trang about the banking system’s credit growth in 2013 amid the troubling high volume of non-performing loans.
Bond market to champion growth
July 09, 2012 | 13:37
It is possible that policy-makers have been reluctant to promote the creation of a formal debt market because it could limit their control over credit and banking growth and thereby interest rates.
Interest rates likely to drop to 9 per cent: SBV
June 01, 2012 | 14:04
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) may reduce deposit interest rates to 9 per cent per year to cut loan rates and help businesses.
Sacombank to dig itself out of hole
May 22, 2012 | 15:23
Sacombank has unveiled an ambitious plan to issue $200 million worth of dollar bonds overseas this year amid fierce headwinds.
Investors to move with times
December 12, 2011 | 11:14
In November Vietnam’s stock market witnessed low liquidity with stock prices plunging to lows not seen in several years and some stocks were not worth a cup of tea.
HSBC is ready to rise to the challenge
July 04, 2011 | 08:01
“But the beauty of a young market is you have an almost un-exploited land to discover.”
AIA’s policy of insuring success in Vietnam
May 23, 2011 | 08:51
“So, difficult economic times may actually provide growth opportunities for life insurers.”
Attacking inflation key to a recovery
May 09, 2011 | 08:00
There is both positive and negative news for the equity market in May, although none of it is predicted to be significant.
Economy fast approaching its moment of truth
April 25, 2011 | 08:44
“The expected results will depend on the persistence of the government’s policies in the next three years to restore the macroeconomic balances which were lost during 2007-2010”
Japan counting the cost of March disasters
April 11, 2011 | 11:01
How is Japan recovering from its devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami and will the disaster impact on its official development assistance (ODA) and direct investment in Vietnam?
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