Vietnam’s central bank has set a credit growth target of around 15% this year.

The two sides will focus on cooperation in digital transformation, cybersecurity, tax management, and market operations.

Vietnam has 3.1 million business households and individuals, many of whom sell goods and services online without registering, declaring, or paying taxes.

Foreign investors’ trading on exchanges and net injecting/withdrawing value from the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has a high correlation with a usual lag of one month. Hence, although the trend of money withdrawal by foreign investors has not shown any sign of ending, it is expected there will be less selling pressure in October.

Starting October 15, the Ministry of Finance is scheduled to disclose the disbursement data on a 15-day basis at http://mof.gov.vn.

While the expansion of asset yields becomes more limited as the transition towards retail lending slows down and competition intensifies, the control of funding costs serves as a driver of interest income growth.

Over the last five years, the number of such transactions has increased five-fold from 56 million transactions in 2015 to 271 million by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48.3%.

There is real value to be found in the mid- to small-cap selections in the benchmark VN- Index, many of which carry amazing growth stories, said Dragon Capital’s executive.

The stability of the VND has contributed to decreasing demand for the dollar as people prefer the national currency due to the large spread between interest rates on VND and the dollar.

Devaluing the dong must take into account trade turnover, foreign debt, current account, so as to ensure the highest national interest and stability of the market, according to the State Bank of Vietnam.

Challenges of the Vietnamese banking sector include issues of asset quality, weak capitalization and regulatory constraints that inhibit further investment in the sector. In addition, Vietnamese banks have higher overheads and provision more for non-performing loans.

The current growth rate is less than two thirds of the growth target of 14% set for 2019.

Addressing the two remaining prerequisites for reclassification only requires a new decree or circular issued by Ministry of Finance, instead of going through many processes subject to approval from the National Assembly.

The country is on track for classification as Secondary Emerging in the review on September 2020, in case of meeting all criteria of FTSE Russell.

The Vietnamese central bank is expected not to take further monetary policy action for the rest of 2019.

As of end 2018, the inter-bank electronic payment system processed 137.6 million transactions worth VND73,000 trillion (US$3.13 trillion), 13 times the country’s GDP.

The program enables students to address frivolous spending and economic challenges.

Alliex plans to invest over US$700 million in the next five years to install 600,000 devices for payment via cards in Vietnam’s market.

This modest growth was mainly on the back of the 3.2% expansion of the government bond market to US$48.0 billion, due to issuance of treasury bonds and central bank bills.

The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, would continue to closely monitoring the macro-economic conditions and managing the monetary policy in a flexible manner, aiming to support economic growth.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) may consider another rate cut from now on until the end of the year to have a substantial impact on the financial market and support economic growth.

Before taking the helm at HSBC Vietnam, Tim Evans served as HSBC’s Regional Head of Commercial Banking, International Markets in Asia-Pacific, covering Bangladesh, Mauritius, New Zealand, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung attributed the low disbursement rate to delay in assigning mid-term public investment plan, insufficient fund allocation, slow adjustment of investment plan, cumbersome procedures, or delay in completing disbursement procedures.