Analysts have made positive comments about the government’s new regulations on supplementing compulsory credit ratings in certain cases for corporate bonds issued for private placement, which will apply from January 1, 2023. Some 700 businesses have bonds in circulation, totaling VND1.5 quadrillion ($63 billion), more than 43 per cent of which are enterprises subject to credit ratings.
Moody’s has upgraded TPBank’s credit rating to “Ba3”, based on assessing five key criteria: liquidity, profitability, bad debt ratio, equity, and tangible asset financing. Four of the five are at a high level at TPBank. With good profitability and risk management, TPBank was also placed by Forbes in the Top 50 best-listed companies in 2022 and is among the top seven listed banks in Vietnam.