Though deposit interest rates listed at commercial banks have decreased rapidly after the State Bank of Viet Nam''s (SBV) policy rate cut, savings of individual customers have kept rising.
Deposit mobilisation by credit institutions in HCM City grew by 4 per cent as of July 31 to VND3.02 quadrillion (US$132.5 billion), according to the State Bank of Vietnam.
Many commercial banks raised deposit interest rates in recent months, triggering worries about the increasing pressure on the lending rates. But some insist this was only a short-term measure.
Many commercial banks have recently increased deposit interest rates, but experts forecast that the rise will last only a short time and won’t have a domino effect on lending rates.
A number of commercial banks have increased their Vietnamese dong deposit interest rates by 0.2-0.4 per cent per year to attract depositors at year-end.
Several commercial banks have unexpectedly slightly cut the dong-denominated deposit interest rates in the past week, according to report by the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).
Remittance to the country through HCM City-based banks in the first
seven months of the year rose to US$2.2 billion, or 19 per cent over the
same period last year, according to statistics from the State Bank of
Viet Nam''s HCM City branch.