The ABA’s webinar series on “Connecting and Exploring Opportunities with ABA” will run throughout 2023. Lasting for an hour, each webinar will feature a special presentation by invited banks and financial experts from ABA member banks or ABA partners to share insights about the economy and financial markets in their country, and about their organization's special programs, projects, products or services that have benefited the customer base or the communities they serve that can be studied and applied by other banks and financial institutions from other countries.
At the online seminar "Connecting and Exploring Opportunities with ABA" on August 29, 2023, Agribank participated and presented on "Agribank’s Role and Contribution in the Development of Financial Inclusion in Agriculture and Rural Areas".
Following the direction of the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam, Agribank has been actively and effectively implementing many policies and solutions to promote financial inclusion and increase opportunities to access financial services for people, especially those who have little or no access to financial products and services in rural and remote areas; the poor, people with low income, women and other disadvantaged groups, small and medium-sized enterprises, micro-enterprises, cooperatives, and business households. Agribank has actively contributed to social welfare by sponsoring the construction of hundreds of schools, heath stations and thousands of charity houses for the social-policy beneficiaries and impoverished households across Vietnam.
ABA was established in 1981 and currently has 66 member financial institutions in 23 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In Vietnam, there are currently four commercial banks participating in ABA membership including Agribank, Vietcombank, Vietinbank and Eximbank. ABA has played an important role in actively supporting member organizations in activities on anti-money laundering, solutions to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring network security and digital transformation for banking services.
Joining ABA since 2007, the Agribank's Chairman has been elected to the ABA Board of Directors from 2019 to present. As an active member of the Association, Agribank has attended and made many contributions at important ABA events such as annual conferences, regional policy conferences and symposiums. Agribank's participation and presentation at the online ABA’s webinar series on “Connecting and Exploring Opportunities with ABA” continues to affirm Agribank's active membership and enhance Agribank's position in Asia and internationally.
