Posts Tagged ‘ Rate scheme ’

Commercial banks request interest rate ceiling removal

January 27, 2010
Commercial banks request interest rate ceiling removal

LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks are proposing the ceiling interest rate scheme is removed, saying it has caused major difficulties in capital mobilization and lending. According to the governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Van Giau, five out of 16 banks in HCM City have been found to have outstanding loans double the mobilized [...]

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Hanoi stock exchange denies failure in Government bond issuance

September 22, 2009
Hanoi stock exchange denies failure in Government bond issuance

LookAtVietnam – The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) says the low number of bonds sold in recent Government bond bids does not mean they failed. HNX makes the statement following media criticism the Ministry of Finance for unsold bonds, saying instead that the currently unreasonable ceiling interest rate scheme is the main reason for the lack [...]

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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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SBV: Businesses won’t be forced to sell dollars

June 4, 2009
SBV: Businesses won’t be forced to sell dollars

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will not force any enterprises, either foreign-invested or domestic, to sell foreign currencies to commercial banks, Deputy Governor of SBV Nguyen Van Binh affirmed. In Vietnamese territory, the prices of all goods must be quoted in VNDThe deputy governor stated the above during the Vietnam Business Forum in HCM [...]

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No one expects basic interest rate reduction

April 9, 2009
No one expects basic interest rate reduction

Rumours have been spread these days that SBV plans to slash the basic interest rate. However, no commercial banks wants to believe that this will become realistic. Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thi Mui, Director of Vietinbank’s Training and Human Resource Development Centre, said that the monetary policy has never been adjusted so many times before [...]

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Consumer credit limit record of VND500mil appears

February 12, 2009
Consumer credit limit record of VND500mil appears

A lot of commercial banks have resumed consumer loaning since the central bank removed the ceiling interest rate scheme. However, the door to the loans has not opened widely. In 2007, the year when consumer credit boomed, the market witnessed the record consumer credit limit of VND200-300mil. Consumer credit was later tightened in the context [...]

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Door to consumer credit open wide

February 10, 2009
Door to consumer credit open wide

Right after SBV removed the ceiling interest rate on consumer credit, commercial banks rushed to launch several thousand billion VND of new consumer credit programmes onto the market. It is clear that individual clients now have more opportunities than in 2008 to access bank loansPhung Duy Khuong, Deputy General Director of East Asia Bank, said [...]

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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...