Establishing a debt exchange has been earmarked as a key task of the State-run Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) over the next five years, a good signal for the formation of long-waited debt trading floor to resolve bad debts..
Việt Nam’s Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC) has offered to sell a complete lot of more than 4 million shares of the Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB) on December 23.
The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has cleared all non-performing loans it had previously sold to the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC).
In the last week of December Agribank became the 10th bank to complete the purchase of all bad debts it had previously sold to the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC).
The Southeast Asia Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SeABank) has completed the early redemption of all special bonds at the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC), thereby helping the bank proactively monitor and handle bad debts.
Kien Long Bank has become the eighth bank to clear all bad debts they had previously sold to the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) before the maturity date, VAMC announced on Tuesday.
The Viet Nam Asset Management Company is planning to develop a new strategy for buying and selling bad debts in Viet Nam this year, in which it will play a central role to promote the development of the debt trading market.
The Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) is expected to reclaim a bad debt figure of VND50 trillion (US$2.13 billion) in 2019, higher than the volume of 2018 which stood at VND30.9 trillion ($1.32 billion).
Settlement of bad debts is expected to improve this year as many banks plan to buy back all the non-performing loans (NPLs) they had sold to the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC).
The Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) must resolve all non-performing loans kept at the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC), said deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue.
The Government has directed the State Bank of Viet Nam to focus on the settlement of non-performing loans in 2019 with the aim of bringing the NPL ratio of credit institutions to below 2 per cent.