January 18, 2012
Many lenders in Vietnam are trying to attract individual clients Many banks in Vietnam are targeting retail savings as large but short-term deposits from corporate clients prove to be a volatile funding source. Bankers said while term deposits from individual customers are usually small, they make up a stable source of capital for banks. On [...]
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January 14, 2012
Vietnam signaled that it may cut policy interest rates to “more suitable” levels after the first quarter and weaken the dong this year as Asia’s fastest inflation eases. “The central bank will adjust policy rates to more suitable levels, aiming to help ease the average level of market interest rates,” central bank Governor Nguyen [...]
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January 11, 2012
An upswing in mergers and acquisitions in the banking system will occur this year, bringing the number of banks in Vietnam to below 30, the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper has reported, citing experts. Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu said there will be a strong M&A wave in the sector as many lenders are looking for [...]
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January 11, 2012
Vietnam will adjust policy interest rates to “more suitable” levels after the first quarter and weaken the dong as much as 3 percent this year, central bank Governor Nguyen Van Binh said. “We believe that 2012 will be a hard year, a challenging year for Vietnam’s economy,” Binh said at a conference in Hanoi [...]
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January 9, 2012
 Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]
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January 6, 2012
Vietnam's banking system is relatively sizeable and efficient, a report said Vietnam has a relatively sizeable and efficient banking system but it suffers from underdeveloped institutional and business environments, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum. The country dropped four places from last year to rank 50th in the forum’s fourth annual [...]
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December 30, 2011
Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]
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December 25, 2011
After years of sky-rocketing credit growth to finance development, Vietnam’s banking system is now weighed down by toxic loans that have forced the communist nation to launch tough reforms. The Southeast Asian country’s financial sector consists of about a hundred banks — either state-owned, private or foreign bank branches. But most have only limited [...]
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December 19, 2011
Vietnam will restrict the establishment of new banks next year The State Bank of Vietnam has introduced new regulations to restrict the establishment of new banks, including one that doubles the minimum asset requirement to VND100 trillion (US$4.75 billion). Under the regulations, which will come into effect this February, founding shareholders of a bank are [...]
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December 19, 2011
Vietnam needs to implement the restructure of both small and large banks in a drastic manner, an economist says. The central bank has approved the merger of three small banks – Ficombank, Saigon Commercial Bank, and Vietnam Tin Nghia Bank – that are mired in liquidity problems. The restructure of banks will continue for the [...]
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