The SBV applied a dollar-denominated deposit interest rate cap of 1 per cent per year for organisations in 2010 and 3 per cent per year for individuals in 2011.
Entering 2023, investors are choosing investment channels that bring high profitability amid the current financial market where there are many unprecedented risks.
Large banks are starting to join the deposit interest rate hike race along with small- and medium-sized banks due to rising capital demand pressure after a long time staying out of the game.
The low interest rate for deposits is part of an effort to lower lending rates for consumers and businesses, who have been struggling during the pandemic.
The Vietnam Association of Financial Investors (VAFI) on Tuesday proposed gradually lowering the Vietnamese dong deposit interest rate to zero per cent.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has recently instructed relevant
authorities to scrutinise the possible removal of the deposit interest
rate cap on short-term deposits.
Individuals as well as small and medium-sized enterprise are
apprehensive loan interest rates could rise since banks have kept hiking
deposit interest rate since the end of last year.
The total payment means by December 19 rose by 15.65 per cent, while
credit rose by 11.8 per cent against late last year, announced the State
Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).
Le Ngoc Huong of HCM City''s Tan Binh District has decided not to pull
out her deposit of VND1 billion from a bank though the interest rate has
fallen from 5.6 per cent to 5.1 per cent.
Following the State Bank of Viet Nam''s decision to lower the deposit
interest rate cap to 7 per cent in June, banks have cut interest rates
accordingly.