Following the Workshop on microfinance activities in the Southern provinces held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 11, in the morning of September 13, 2019 in Hanoi, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) organized a Workshop on microfinance activities in the Northern provinces. SBV First Deputy Governor Dao Minh Tu chaired the Workshop.

On August 23 the State Bank of Vietnam set the benchmark exchange rate at VNĐ23,127 to the dollar, weakening the đồng by VNĐ5 compared to the previous five days (August 19).