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Sixteen commercial banks have agreed to reduce interests on existing loans of Covid-hit businesses from now until the end of the year. The banks include Vietcombank, Vietinbank, BIDV, Agribank, Techcombank, MB, VPBank, TPBank and Sacombank. Lowering interests…
Lender VPBank reported a 26 percent jump in pre-tax profit last year to VND13 trillion ($564.24 million). The second and fourth quarters saw its highest ever quarterly profits of VND3.67 trillion and VND3.62 trillion. The lender’s profits exceeded those of…
The credit market share of Vietnam’s three largest banks has fallen by 2.7 percentage points in the last two years due to liquidity constraints. The three, all state-owned and listed and the country’s largest by assets, Vietcombank, Vietinbank and BIDV,…
Four Vietnamese lenders, three state-owned and one private, are among the world’s top 500 most valuable brands this year. In an annual ranking by BrandFinance, VietinBank was ranked 242, BIDV, 307, Vietcombank, 325, and VPBank, 361. Last year, VietinBank,…
South Korean banks are setting themselves up to score big in Vietnam as foreign ownership limits would be loosened. South Korea’s second-largest lender by assets, KEB Hana Bank, is interested in buying a 17.65 percent stake in the Bank for Investment and…
