The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of Competition and Consumer Protection has recently warned consumers about signing consumer loan contracts.
According to the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) 16 finance companies are licensed to provide consumer lending with their total charter capital worth more than VND22 trillion (US$948 million) as of the end of 2020.
Viet Nam’s stricter regulations on unsecured consumer lending are positive for finance companies, according to a Moody''s recent credit outlook report.
Both finance companies and banks are promoting consumer lending to capitalise on high demands ahead of the country’s largest holiday Lunar New Year (Tet).
Viet Nam News speaks with Kim Jong Geuk, General Director of Lotte Finance Vietnam Co Ltd (Lotte Finance), about the prospect of the consumer finance business in Viet Nam and the company’s business strategy in the Industry 4.0 era.
Consumer lending in 2017 surged sharply by 65 per cent compared to 50.2 per cent in 2016, according to estimates of the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC).
Researchers at Vietnam National University (VNU) on Wednesday presented results of a consumer lending survey showing that the majority of Vietnamese people have never used a consumer loan.
Poised for prodigious purchasing power in near future, Viet Nam is barely tapping into its market potential for consumer loans, with which come the needs for national spending boost and further economic growth.
Consumer lending is seeing only a slow rise ahead of Tet (Lunar New Year), despite commercial banks offering preferential loans to both individuals and enterprises.