State-owned Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) will put more than 15.1 million shares of Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade (Saigonbank) up for auction in the second quarter of this year.
State-owned Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade this week announced it plans to divest its holding in Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade.
The Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) on Monday was estimated to receive VND342.6 billion (US$15.2 million) from selling its entire stakes in the Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade (SaigonBank) and Viet Nam Cement Finance Company (CFC).
Ten individual investors have registered to buy up to 67.5 million
shares of Saigonbank, while Vietinbank will divest only nearly 16.9
million shares of Saigonbank.
More than 30 brokerage firms, about 30 per cent of all brokerage firms,
will be suspended if they record combined losses equal to half of the
capital or their equity is lower than the legal capital required to
operate their businesses.
Vietcombank is set to merge with Saigonbank as part of a general banking restructuring process, said Nguyen Van Binh, the Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam.