To boost credit growth, the SBV has requested credit institutions to firmly implement effective credit growth solutions since early February. Accordingly, credit institutions must review to simplify lending procedures with an aim to increase people''s ability to access capital.
Under the latest survey released last week, credit institutions forecast the rise of the outstanding loans in the whole year of 2024 will be 14.2 per cent, 0.4 percentage points higher than the forecast in the previous survey.
Total loans outstanding as of November 30 at credit institutions in HCM City were worth over VNĐ3.4 quadrillion (US$140.15 billion), a 1.3 per cent increase from the previous month, according to the central bank.
Among banks that have already published Q3 2022 financial statements, only a few recorded declines in the bad debt ratio compared to the beginning of the year.
Viet Nam needs to improve the legal framework to promote the development of real estate investment trusts (REITs) to add capital to the property market while bank credit and corporate bond issuance were being tightened.
Capital mobilisation plans are now the centre of attention at the 2022 General Meeting of Shareholders of securities companies, with diversified fundraising channels.
Total outstanding loans of credit institutions in HCM City as of August 31 were worth VND2.38 quadrillion (US$102.5 billion), an estimated 3.68 per cent up for the year.
Low demand for capital due to COVID-19 has caused bank credit in the first half of April to 0.5 per cent compared with the end of March, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).
Most domestic credit institutions and foreign banks’ branches in Viet Nam expect better business performance in 2019 despite the predicted credit slowdown.