Banking & Finance
Financial support expanded for women-owned businesses through 2030
The program aims to advise and support 50,000 women-owned or women-managed businesses in accessing finance.
Banking & Finance
Deputy PM urges 1.5–2% cut in lending rates for businesses
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang urged the central bank to execute timely, substantive measures to bring down overall interest rate levels, specifically targeting a 1.5–2% cut in loan rates for production, commerce, and priority sectors.
Vietnam Today
New public debt strategy through 2030 adopted
Under the new strategy, the foreign debt-to-GDP ratio represents a five-percent increase from the previous edition of the public debt strategy through 2030 which had been adopted by the Government in 2022.
Nam A Bank enters multilateral capital market with $100 million international syndicated loan
Bank signs Mandate Letter for $100 million syndicated loan, with UBOT and VietinBank Filiale Deutschland as Co-Arrangers.
National Technology Innovation Fund spends $156,000 in 9M
The National Technology Innovation Fund spent an estimated 72.5 percent of its full-year state budget allocation through September, while working to streamline procedures and ease administrative hesitations for business support programs.
Arrangements afoot
Vietnam issuing USD-denominated government bonds would be entirely feasible given that certain preparatory stages for an international bond issuance are already underway.
Rebalancing capital channels
The development of Vietnam’s green bond market has failed to keep pace with the introduction of various policies in support of green finance.
Da Nang targets full public investment disbursement
By the end of September, Da Nang had disbursed more than VND13.265 trillion ($504 million), equivalent to 77.16% of the capital allocated by the Prime Minister.
Ministry fast-tracks corporate liquidation procedures amid spike in business exits
Under the Ministry of Finance's new directive, business registry authorities must receive, process, and transmit dissolution records to the relevant tax office within one working day.