Regional, international financial centers mean boosters to Vietnamese economy: Deputy PM
Ho Chi Minh City envisions its financial center encompassing the money market, banking system, capital market, and derivatives market.
16:49, 2025/01/06
Vietnam GDP expands by 7.09% in 2024
The 2024 growth rate is considered positive amidst global uncertainties and domestic challenges such as natural disasters.
14:39, 2025/01/04
Vietnam stock market set to accelerate in 2025: Experts
Stable macroeconomic fundamentals, ongoing institutional reforms, and favorable monetary policies will be positive for corporate earnings.
16:31, 2025/01/02
Vietnam stock market aims for emerging status by 2025: Finance minister
By the end of 2024, the benchmark VN-Index reached 1,266.78 points, up 12.11% from 2023.
20:33, 2019/01/26
Property investment lending in Vietnam set to be tightened from 2019
Quality of lending to real estate sector could be rigorously monitored from 2019.
07:05, 2019/01/23
US-China trade war de-escalation improves Vietnam’s financial market
The exchange rate (FX) rate and short-term rates stop to go up while net buying foreign investment flow was reported in the last two months.
22:14, 2019/01/22
Market plummet hits securities companies' profit in Q4/2018
As of the fourth quarter of 2018, the VN-Index fell from 1,021 points to 892, equivalent to a decrease of 12.6%.
06:35, 2019/01/22
Vietnam banks tend to secure overseas long-term loan facilities
Cross-border lending serves as an effective alternative source to supplement banks’ mid- and long-term funding.
13:15, 2019/01/21
Higher foreign holding proposed to meet banks’ thirsty of capital
Experts suggested the government currently can increase the foreign ownership limit at banks by 5 percentage points to 35 percent. Then, the rate will be continuously adjusted up to 51 percent in 2021-2025.
09:21, 2019/01/21
Foreign funds bet on Vietnam’s e-payment platforms
Experts said there are many favorable conditions for e-payment to make a leap in the country: the retail market and e-commerce are thriving, while bank cards and smartphones are more widespread.
14:44, 2019/01/17
Vietnam c.bank likely to raise policy rate in H2/2019: UOB
The Vietnamese economy is expected to expand 6.7% in 2019, which is a "robust" rate, says UOB.
13:59, 2019/01/16
Majority of Vietnamese online shoppers still prefer paying in cash
Despite being one of the fastest growing e-commerce markets in the region, online transactions in Vietnam remains feeble.
17:31, 2019/01/14
Vietnam’s 2018 credit growth at five-year low is a credit positive: Moody’s
The analysts expect credit growth in 2019 to remain at around 14% as the SBV maintains its control over credit growth in the system.
08:07, 2019/01/11
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index projected to jump 18% in 2019: Bloomberg
The high growth would come from stable economic growth and cheap valuation of Vn-Index.
18:01, 2019/01/10
Vietcombank seeks gov’t OK to ease foreign ownership cap in 2019
As part of the process, the bank would reduce the state ownership to 65%.
16:46, 2019/01/10
Vietnam’s public debt ratio falls for second straight year
The National Assembly set target for public debt at 61.3% of the GDP by the end of 2019, the governmental portal reported.
14:49, 2019/01/10
Vietnam lowers bad debt ratio to 6.3% amid record GDP growth
The downtrend of the bad debt ratio stemmed from stricter asset classification at banks and the warm-up of the local real estate market thanks to faster economic growth which hit a decade high of 7.08% in 2018.
10:47, 2019/01/10
Vietnam c.bank buys in US$700 million YTD after net buying US$6 billion in 2018
During 2018, the supply of foreign currency in Vietnam remained profuse, facilitating the central bank`s forex purchases.
03:38, 2019/01/10
Vietnam’s PM requests better capital access for locals to tackle loan sharking
A high proportion of the population has not been able to get loans, especially people in remote and rural areas.
18:14, 2019/01/09
Vietnam’s tax revenue up 12.3% in 2018
The tax department said the overall revenue witnessed significant improvement compared to last year, mainly thanks to a hike in global crude oil prices at US$74 per barrel.
11:23, 2019/01/07
Vietnam’s credit growth hits 5-year low of 14% in 2018
The credit growth in the economy in 2018 is at five-year low, but it still helped the economy grow at a decade-high of 7.08%, VnExpress reported.
15:24, 2019/01/05
VCSC leapfrogs SSI to top HoSE’s brokerage market share in Q4/2018
SSI remained the largest broker in the HoSE for the whole year, reaching a market share of 18.7%, followed by HSC and VCSC with 11.24% and 10.95%, respectively.
11:06, 2019/01/04
Vietnam banks poised to rush in capital hike race for survival in 2019
Besides seeking funds in the domestic market, some banks such as HDBank and VIB also planned to issue international bonds.
15:25, 2019/01/03
Foreign investors' securities portfolio in Vietnam swells 9% in 2018
The stock market continued to be an efficient capital mobilization channel for Vietnam’s economic development.