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
State Bank schedules 12% credit growth
The State Bank of Viet Nam planned for the nation's lending growth to reach 12 per cent next year, said Monetary Policy Department director Nguyen Thi Hong at a meeting at the central bank's headquarters yesterday.
02/01/2013
Japanese investor keen on Vietnamese banks
Several Japanese investors have seen the slump in the securities market as an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap in Vietnamese banks.
02/01/2013
Tighter regulations to control gold market
Seventeen banks and 14 companies will be granted licenses to trade gold bars from next year, when the country implements tightened regulations to better manage the gold market.
02/01/2013
Banks enter rates race
In a bid to woo more customers, banks are promoting higher interest rates on deposits despite a State Bank order to reduce rates.
02/01/2013
International experience on deposit insurance coverage limit
Deposit insurance coverage limit is an important component of deposit insurance policy in the world generally and in Vietnam particularly. According to the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI)’s guidance on the coverage limit, the...
12/12/2012
Banks promoting growth by boosting individual credit
In order to promote credit growth, commercial banks have recently reduced interest rates for individual customers.
08/11/2012
Bank scandal flattens market
Shares failed to rally on the nation's stock exchanges on Nov. 6, with leading indices closing essentially unchanged as investors remained uncertain about the circumstances surrounding last week's resignation by former Sacombank chairman Dang Van Thanh.
08/11/2012
Controlling credit remains a priority
Tran Van Tan, head of credit office at the State Bank’s Credit Department, talks with VIR’s Trinh Trang about the banking system’s credit growth in 2013 amid the troubling high volume of non-performing loans.
08/11/2012