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Banks to shift to retail lending to gain credit growth
Many banks, which used to focus on lending to individual (retail) customers, have had to shift to expanding corporate lending to achieve credit growth in the first half of 2024.
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22 credit institutions successfully deploy VNeID for authentication
To date, twenty two credit institutions and 13 payment intermediaries have successfully deployed VNeID app for authentication of payment account opening, payment transactions and customer information verification.
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Warning of increase in fake bank websites
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) discovered 68 more websites impersonating the brands of agencies and organisations in order to scam users last month.
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SBV works to ensure macroeconomic stability, inflation control
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will manage interest rates in accordance with macroeconomic balance and inflation in the second half of 2024 to ensure macroeconomic stability and inflation control, an SBV official said on Tuesday.
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Discussing with experts on foreign currency policy and interest rates applied to USD deposits
On July 17, 2024, in Hanoi, under the chairmanship of Deputy Governor Pham Thanh Ha, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) organized a meeting with several economic experts to discuss about the foreign currency policy and the interest rates applied to the USD deposits.
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Vingroup, Techcombank propose lower interest rates and extended loan terms for social housing
Private conglomerate Vingroup and Vietnam Technological and Commcercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) have proposed a new preferential credit package for social housing.
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Cheap money period in Việt Nam forecast to come to an end
The period of cheap money is coming to end as deposit interest rates are increasing, causing lending interest rates next time to be difficult to maintain at the same low level as at the beginning of this year, experts forecast.
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Banking industry meets 6% credit growth target in H1 2024
Credit by the end of June 2024 increased by about 6 per cent compared to the beginning of the year, reaching nearly VNĐ14.4 quadrillion, a positive signal showing this year's credit growth target of 14-15 per cent is within reach, experts said.
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Central bank works on protecting banking service users
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will research and amend regulations on safety and security in online banking service provision to better protect customers, an SBV official said on Thursday.
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Bank warns of fraudsters impersonating employees over biometric updates
Vietcombank has warned about a new form of fraud, impersonating bank staff to support biometric updates, in order to steal banking service information.
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Foreigners advised to visit bank branches for biometric verification
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has issued guidance for commercial banks to serve the registration of biometric data for foreign residents in Việt Nam, when a new regulation on mandatory biometric verification for first-time mobile banking users or large valued transactions takes effect early next month, an SBV official said.
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Resolve Non-Performing Loans, Enable Increased Access to Finance in Viet Nam
Co-funded by IFC and Welcome Financial Group (WFG), the new facility—to be managed by Welcome Debt Trading Company Limited (WDT), a WFG subsidiary and a distressed asset investor and servicer in Viet Nam, will focus on acquiring and resolving Non-Performing Loans held by local financial institutions.
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Low lending rates may boost credit growth
A slight increase in deposits recently has not affected lending rates, which banks are keeping low in hopes of facilitating the flow of credit.
