Bank card information at risk
(Dec 09, 2013)
With security threats becoming more sophisticated, banks needed to
ensure security of payment card data, delegates told a seminar in HCM
City last week.
Viet Nam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) on Monday signed credit contracts worth US$795.25 million with international banks to finance exports and a power project.
Eximbank chairman Le Hung Dung was appointed acting chairman of the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) on Thursday to replace Nguyen Trong Hy who resigned due to health reasons.
The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has allocated VND45 trillion (US$2.13
billion) for lending to State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in HCM City by
the end of this year.
Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) Nguyen Van Binh has
permitted SeABank to raise its charter capital to VND5.46 trillion
(US$260 million) from VND5.33 trillion ($254 million).
The Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) has been rated fourth among
the Asia-Pacific's top ten banks with the largest growth in deposits.
Vietnam Public Bank and Boston Consulting Group started a strategic project on Wednesday, through which the firm would help the bank build business strategies and form operation models.
Experts have backed predictions that national lending growth will end the year below target, despite a significant surge in bank loans in November.
The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV)
plans to sell non-performing loans worth VND1.5 trillion (Ú$71.4
million) to the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) this week, the
Vietnam Economic Times reports.
In a landmark transaction last week, a credit institution was sold as a
corporate entity in Viet Nam with approval from the central bank.
Vietinbank launched a new service on Monday enabling customers to withdraw money from automated teller machines (ATMs) with registered codes instead of bank cards.