The partnership aims to increase financial inclusion to a broader segment of customers, including individuals and micro enterprises, providing access to credits with preferential interest rates.
HCM City’s credit growth has rebounded, growing by 3.65 per cent as of the end of March, up 13.1 per cent year-on-year, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam’s HCM City branch.
Remittance to HCM City in the first quarter of 2018 increased by 4.5 per cent against the same period last year to reach US$1.12 billion, a Central bank official said.
Total outstanding loans by commercial banks in HCM City in 2017 rose 18.5 per cent from 2016 to more than VND1.74 quadrillion (US$76.73 billion), according to the State Bank of Viet Nam’s HCM City branch.
Remittance inflows to HCM City in the 11 months of this year reached US$4.55 billion, Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy director of the State Bank of Viet Nam’s HCM City branch, said.
Overseas remittances flowing into HCM City touched US$3 billion in the first eight months of 2017, a 5 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
Remittances to HCM City in the first six months of the year were worth US$2.1 billion, marginally up from the same period last year, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam’s HCM City branch.
Bank of India on Friday officially inaugurated its first branch in HCM City, becoming the first Indian bank to receive a licence to open a branch in the country.
The HCM City branch of the State Bank of Viet Nam will offer
enterprises low-interest loans from a fund totalling VND40 trillion
(US$1.89 billion) approved by the central bank.