Sustainable interest rates and risk management were the hot topics during a seminar on the country's micro-finance institutions held yesterday in Ha Noi.

The outstanding loans given by commercial banks have increased 2.11 per cent since December, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).

According to Nghia, VAMC will be under the management of the central bank rather than the finance ministry as funds used to handle bad debts will not come from the Government budget.

IT was becoming more and more important to the financial security and operational efficiency of banking services, State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) Governor Nguyen Van Binh said at a banking tech [ … ]

As many as 500 local bank executives and IT senior experts gathered in Hanoi on May 15 at a seminar to get updated with the latest technologies that can enable them to compete strongly in th [ … ]

Since commercial banks have lowered the interest rates, depositing has become less attractive in the eyes of investors. They may withdraw money from banks to put into production and business [ … ]

The Government has given the State Bank of Vietnam the task to narrow the gap between deposit and lending rates, in order to achieve a credit growth of 12 percent.

The Military Bank (MB) has announced that it was selected by the State Bank of Viet Nam as a banking and finance service provider for the disbursement and implementation of the transmission [ … ]

Noel Quinn, HSBC Group General Manager and Regional Head of Commercial Banking Asia Pacific recently had a visit to Viet Nam, one of HSBC's important markets.

The debt burden on the country will get heavier in the coming years, with debt obligations forecast to rise from VND126.8 trillion this year to VND152.6 trillion in 2014 and VND173.1 trillio [ … ]