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
World Bank expert urges banking system reform
The problem of dealing with the mounting level of bad debt weighing on the nation's commercial banks continues to stymie and affect the liquidity of the banking system, a World Bank expert told a meeting here yesterday.
24/01/2013
Credit growth unlikely to increase
Banks will struggle to increase credit growth this year, despite looser monetary policies, according to industry insiders.
14/01/2013
Banks rethink on-us ATM fee collections
After the central bank has allowed collection of on-us ATM (automated teller machine) transaction fees starting in March, local banks are considering various collection schemes with some saying to charge lower than the maximum rate of VND1,000 per...
14/01/2013
Gold market remains stable as gold bar restriction takes effect
The domestic gold market remains stable without major disorder after the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)'s regulation on gold bar trading took effect on January 10.
14/01/2013
Inflation curbing, NPLs settlement: Top priorities of banking sector in 2013
PM Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the banking sector to focus on controlling inflation and handling non-performing loans in 2013.
14/01/2013
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