The US dollar on Wednesday depreciated against the Vietnamese dong after the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) sold the greenback on the cheap to stabilise the local foreign exchange market.
The US dollar listed at commercial banks has so far this year gained 1.67 per cent against the Vietnamese đồng due to a rise in the global market, but supply and demand for the greenback in the domestic market has remained stable.
AIA, one of the world’s largest life insurers has co-operated with the Dong A Bank, Viet Nam’s leading local retail bank to offer premier financial services to more Vietnamese customers.
Dong A Bank has delivered a steady performance under the State Bank of ViEt Nam’s special supervision, since August, recovering nearly VND4.2 trillion (US$185 million) of its non-performing loans.
The State Bank of Viet Nam sacked Dong A Bank general director Tran
Phuong Binh and deputy general director Nguyen Thi Ngoc Van on Thursday
for a slew of legal violations by the HCM City-based bank on their watch
a few years ago.
High capital demand from commercial banks raised the borrowing interest rates in the interbank market in the last week of 2013, the central bank''s statistics showed.
Local leading retailer Saigon Co.op in collaboration with Vietcombank,
BIDV and Dong A Bank on Friday introduced their co-branded debit cards
for customers who shop at Co.opmart supermarkets and Co.opXtra
hypermarkets.