Strengthening the role of deposit insurers in protecting financial consumers
Financial consumer protection is one of the important tools to increase people's access to finance, and at the same time to ensure the legitimate interests of financial consumers as well as...
26/11/2021
Vietnam's bad debt falls to 2.55 pct of loans at end 2015: c.bank
Bad debt in Vietnamese banks fell to 2.55 percent of total loans at the end of 2015 from 3.25 percent a year earlier, according to central bank data, the lowest since 2010, when a debt crisis started to emerge in the beleaguered banking sector.
18/03/2016
VN's small and medium sized enterprises fight for credit
HANOI (VNS) — Rising demand for credit across Vietnam’s private sector is expected to drive bank loan books above the highs recorded last year.
18/03/2016
Lowering interest rates and effects on depositors
Interest rate is one of main instruments used by the State Bank to conduct the national monetary policy. With the Directive 01/NHNN in 2013, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) emphasized that it will conduct the monetary policy in line with monetary...
23/07/2013
Banks have money to lend - but few takers
Some of Vietnam's leading banks are now reporting modest credit growth at best - and even shrinking in some cases - despite ample capital resources and sliding lending rates.
03/05/2013
New regulation requires notification of high value transactions to central bank
HA NOI— Any transaction over VND300 million (US$14,250) must be reported to the State Bank of Vietnam under a recent decision that goes into effect June 10.
03/05/2013
Monetary policy management results in first two months of 2013
With the synchronous and decisive implementation of comprehensive measures since the early months of the year, developments in monetary, credit and banking operations in the first two months of 2013 have picked up in accordance with the management objectives of the whole year.
01/04/2013
Gold market again catches the eye
The bullion market situation is again coming into sharp focus.
01/04/2013
Debt issue held up to the light
A long-awaited draft decree addressing bank bad debts is under the microscope.
01/04/2013