January 20, 2012
Many banks in Vietnam fear that bad debts could rise this year. Many banks in Vietnam say dealing with bad debts rather than credit growth is going to be a priority task for 2012. According to the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper, even large banks in the country fear that bad debts could rise this year. State-owned Bank [...]
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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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November 28, 2011
The central bank has completed a plan to restructure the banking system. Vietnam’s central bank said it will consider lowering the dong deposit rate cap in December, admitting that the cap has created an advantage for large banks over smaller lenders. The 14 percent cap was introduced at the end of 2010, but until last [...]
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November 23, 2011
Credit grew only 8.61 percent in the first 10 months Vietnam’s central bank expects bank loans to increase 15 percent this year, lower than the original target. State bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Binh said the growth will be kept at 17 percent or below next year. The monetary authority will focus on providing loans [...]
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November 19, 2011
A worker walking a bicycle loaded with construction steel on his way to a construction site in Hanoi The frozen property market and high interest rates have pushed steel producers into the red and some even face the risk of shutting down their business. Pham Chi Cuong, chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association, said [...]
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November 13, 2011
Wiping out small banks should not be the goal of banking reform A customer exits a branch of Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, in Hanoi. Bad debts at local banks are rising, raising concerns about the safety of the whole banking system. With bad debt exposure rising among local [...]
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November 5, 2011
Vietnam’s public debt will probably be higher than estimated, as the Ministry of Finance has missed including in its calculations several kinds of debt related to the government, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s meeting on Friday. According to the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Committee, their review showed that the country’s public debt will [...]
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October 30, 2011
Lawyer Pham Thanh Binh, deputy head of Hong Ha Law Firm in Hanoi. A series of loan insolvencies totaling hundreds of billion Vietnamese dong have been detected in Hanoi. This is partly due to the impacts of the economic slowdown, which has savers shying away from legal investment channels because of low profits. They instead [...]
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October 21, 2011
The State Bank of Vietnam said it supports banking mergers to enhance the competitiveness of local lenders and secure the national banking system. As the government pursues economic stability and stable growth, the central bank said in a statement on Wednesday it would continue to tighten monetary policy. “Beginning now, credit institutions need to [...]
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