Vietnam

More benefits have been added to  Asia Commercial Bank’s VIP customers and Visa Platinum cardholders.

Vietcombank attributed its high bad debt ratio to its international auditing standards in evaluating bad debts.

TinNghiaBank increased its interest ratesfor gold certificates to 3.1%,  and up 0.4% from the bank’s previous level.

an Commercial Bank is eyeing corporate customers in maritime, shipbuilding, petroleum and precision engineering in the Province of Khanh Hoa with its new Nha Trang City branch.

Vietinbank issued Platinum VIP Cards with many benefits and exclusive privileges to its loyal customers to extend the bank’s deep thanks to them. In July, 2011, Vietinbank launched a special program for individual customers to accumulate credit scores. Under the program, customers would earn credit scores using Vietinbank’s products and services and would be classified annually into different rankings: Silver, Premium, Gold, and Platinum. The Platinum VIP cards issued by the bank reflected the cardholders’ good credit rating and financial status to customers who achieved Platinum Grade from 60,000 credit scores. This was a special gift for exclusive individual customers of VietinBank. To date, Vietinbank has issued Platinum VIP Cards to 150 customers. In the coming time, the bank will continue to expand its partnership to provide more utilities for customers in general and VIP clients in particular and to always offer customers with ultimate benefits and unique values in line with the bank’s slogan "Enhancing values of life".

Hua Nan Commercial Bank  has been given regulatory approval to set up a branch in Hanoi in Vietnam.

The volume of overseas remittance to Vietnam is expected to reach $8.5 billion this year, according to the State Bank of Vietnam.

The HCM City People’s Court has ordered Indochina Airlines to pay US 1.3 million dollars to the Asia Commercial Bank.

Military Bank reported a bad debt ratio of 1.65% till the end of Q3.

Vietnam’s banking system has become attractive to foreign investors for strategy in the long-term.

Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam lowered the lending interest rates for Vietnam dong further by 1-2 percentage points from the current 18-19% a year. The bank's annual interest rate is now 17% at most for normal loans and 15-16% for manufacturers of farm and export products. The short-term rate for riskier areas like stock investment and consumption is 18.5%. This is the bank’s third interest rate cut in two months after the release of the central bank’s Instruction 02 to cap the deposit rates for Vietnam dong and the U.S dollar at credit institutions and foreign bank branches. Chairman Tran Bac Ha of BIDV said this rate cut is aimed at assisting the struggling business community. However, it will affect the bank’s profit as BIDV must obey the ceiling deposit rate of 14% as regulated in Instruction 02, he added. BIDV’s interest rate cut was announced in the context that many small commercial banks are having a hard time with liquidity and must look for supply from the inter-bank market. Commenting on this issue, Ha of BIDV said the interest rate hike did not mean any problem in monetary policy and banking system. “I believe the inter-bank interest rates will soon go down,” he said. The State Bank of Vietnam announced on Tuesday liquidity in the banking system had returned to normal after some banks had faced liquidity difficulties in the past few days. The announcement was made in order to allay concerns over low liquidity at banks due to the recent inter-bank rate spike. According to a source, the inter-bank rate on Monday was at 20-21% for overnight loans, 22-23% for one-week term and 25-26% for one-month term.

Local small Vietnamese lenders were forced to borrow in interbank market with sky-high interest rates after seeing massive deposits outflows.

The State Bank of Vietnam announced four fundamental principles in restructuring the local banking system.

The lender to tap more than 10,000 high-end professionals, or entrepreneurs who have built up their business in Vietnam.

Vietnam's central bank is paving the way for mergers and acquisitions among banks to step up the restructuring of the sector hit by rising bad debt.

The State Bank of Vietnam allowed 2 more commercial banks to sell gold deposits to intervene the local gold market.