18:13 | 22/03/2006
The cash-strapped power industry got an injection of financial support from the World Bank, which last week decided to provide huge loans.
Citigroup’s fresh thrust into sector
By Vu Long 18:14 | 27/02/2006
Citigroup, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services corporations, was just granted a licence to provide direct custody ...
Local banks hit hurdles raising chartered capital
18:14 | 20/02/2006
Local banks are now facing serious difficulties in raising equity to prepare for integration as the possibility of entering World ...
Poor planning curbs SKEZ progress
By Hoa Giang 18:14 | 15/02/2006
One of the nation’s leading economic planners has said that poor planning and a lack of coordination between provinces is ...
Duty drop to add glitter to jewellery firms
By Vu Long 18:14 | 06/02/2006
An import tax reduction on gold, diamonds and gemstones will be taken into consideration in a bid to support enterprises ...
Cutting out the banking risk
By Do Thi Phuong Lan and Tran Tri Dung (EMISCOM R&D) 18:14 | 23/01/2006
For quite some time Vietnam has been considered an ‘overbanked’ economy. Amid the renewed wave of reform, the central bank ...
Credit agency to police loans
18:14 | 17/01/2006
A private credit bureau, the first of its kind to operate in Vietnam, may be set up this year to ...
By Ngoc Son 18:14 | 09/01/2006
Local banks plan to sell an increased number of shares to foreign investors in the hope of boosting their financial ...
HSBC shells out $17.3m for a Techcombank stake
By Duong Nguyen 18:14 | 04/01/2006
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), last week, inked a deal to buy 10 per cent of ...
By Nguyen Hong 18:14 | 20/12/2005
Although new flexible rules have been applied by local banks to free up loans for enterprises, foreign-invested banks are still ...
SSC approves new fund
By Duong Nguyen 18:14 | 13/12/2005
The State Securities Commission (SSC) has granted a licence to the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) to set ...
Mobile Version
