Posts Tagged ‘ Lending Interest Rates ’

Companies still can’t borrow, despite lower interest rates 

September 20, 2011
Companies still can’t borrow, despite lower interest rates 

Employees at Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, attend to customers in Hanoi. Several commercial banks announced lending interest rate cuts, but companies complain they are being denied access to the lower rates. Major lenders like VietinBank and Vietcombank have lowered dong lending rates for loans to businesses and manufacturers to [...]

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Vietnam orders banks to report on interest rates: report 

September 10, 2011
Vietnam orders banks to report on interest rates: report 

  Vietnam’s central bank on Wednesday ordered commercial lenders to report on their progress in lowering deposit and lending interest rates, Thoi Bao Ngan Hang, a publication of the central bank, reported, citing Governor Nguyen Van Binh. Commercial lenders must send the central bank copies of their internal instructions on reducing deposit and lending interest [...]

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Interest rates expected to ease in September 

August 30, 2011
Interest rates expected to ease in September 

Dong deposit rates have been capped at 14 percent. Lowering deposit rates will help reduce borrowing costs for businesses, experts said. With improved bank liquidity, Vietnam’s goal of reducing dong interest rates in September may be well within reach, according to local economists. In early August, the State Bank of Vietnam’s new governor Nguyen Van [...]

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Things will get worse before they get better 

July 4, 2011
Things will get worse before they get better 

  There’s not much in the way of good news on the economic front. Clothes on sale at a ­­­shop in Hanoi last week. Vietnam is fighting to beat back raging inflation. Despite repeated revisions of growth and inflation targets, the former downwards and the latter upwards, they are not likely to be met, experts [...]

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Seafood exporters set for a worrying 2010

January 23, 2010
Seafood exporters set for a worrying 2010

LookAtVietnam – Seafood exporters are not expecting a prosperous 2010 – despite an upturn predicted for the global economy. Unfortunately there appear to be just too many problems for them to face.  We asked one exporter why he remains so pessimistic about business performance in 2010, when export markets are all expected to open more [...]

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Banks paying out to depositors while charging borrowers more

January 6, 2010
Banks paying out to depositors while charging borrowers more

LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks says they are having to dodge the law by offering higher-than-allowed interest rates to depositors while charging borrowers more. They claim that if they didn’t then there’d be left with only limited funds to lend out to assist businesses.While the ceiling lending interest rate is 12 percent per annum, businesses are [...]

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Small business owners suffering after increased lending interest rates

December 4, 2009
Small business owners suffering after increased lending interest rates

LookAtVietnam – The central bank’s decision on raising basic interest rates has triggered a wave of new interest rate increases. Most commercial banks have raised deposit interest rates after the decision on basic interest rate increaseGiang, a small merchant in Hoc Mon District in HCM City has been concerned since yesterday morning, after she received [...]

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Cup half full or empty?

September 13, 2009
Cup half full or empty?

LookAtVietnam – Animated debate has begun between economic experts over any decision to introduce a second interest rate subsidy package to prop up the economy. A raft of local enterprises have benefited from the interest rate assistance.LookAtVietnam – Animated debate has begun between economic experts over any decision to introduce a second interest rate subsidy [...]

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Banks want interest rate ceiling removed, central bank says ‘no’

September 10, 2009
Banks want interest rate ceiling removed, central bank says ‘no’

LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks have asked for the removal of the ceiling interest rate scheme and the application of the negotiation-based interest rate scheme. The ‘interest rate war’ lasting several months now has pushed deposit interest rates up to nine percent on 12-month term deposits. Many banks have to mobilise capital at the interest rate [...]

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Banks want ceiling interest rate removed, SVB says ‘no’

September 10, 2009
Banks want ceiling interest rate removed, SVB says ‘no’

LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks have asked for the removal of the ceiling interest rate scheme and the application of the negotiation-based interest rate scheme. The ‘interest rate war’ lasting several months now has pushed deposit interest rates up to nine percent on 12-month term deposits. Many banks have to mobilise capital at the interest rate [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...