To-be-bankrupt financial and credit institutions may have to refund their individual customers using support loans from the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) and other financial firms.
Former Ocean Bank chairman Ha Van Tham admitted his violations on Thursday, saying his actions were aimed at saving his job and preventing the bank from going bankrupt.
The Government will consider the possibility of letting poor performing
commercial banks go bankrupt, instead of saving them as it did in the
past, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has said.
Both dissolution and bankruptcy lead to the termination of a
company''s activities. However, their causes, settlement procedures and
legal consequences, as well as the resultant liabilities of the
proprietor are very different.
Many speakers at the recent Autumn Economic Forum said that the banking
restructuring process in Viet Nam was going slow. Do Thien Anh Tuan, an
expert of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Programme, speaks about the issue.
About 6,700 enterprises in Ha Noi went bankrupt or ceased operations in
the first eight months of this year, according to the municipal
taxation department.