Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính signed an official dispatch on Wednesday requesting the State Bank of Việt Nam to enhance credit management in the remaining months of this year to accelerate lending for production and business.
Banks could increase the credit ratio of individual customers in the third and fourth quarters of 2024, as the risk of lending to the individual customer group is decreasing.
Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies has announced that the lending rate for social housing purchases and home repairs is increasing from 4.8 per cent to 6.6 per cent per year, applied on both existing and new loans.
The Ministry of Construction has agreed with the State Bank of Việt Nam’s proposal to offer preferential lending rates for homebuyers who borrow from the VNĐ120 trillion social housing credit package.
After a slump, bank credit in HCM City has picked up again and is expected to keep rising for the rest of the year since demand for funds is usually high at year-end, the State Bank of Vietnam has said.
Experts have proposed the Government issue a separate law for the consumer finance lending, entitled the Financial Consumer Protection Law, to help the sector develop healthily and sustainably.
The central bank aims to cut lending rates by 1-2 per cent, with a focus on supporting economic recovery and growth drivers, emerging sectors, green transitions, circular economy and social housing.
While new loans have been issued at significantly lower rates, older loans, even for priority sectors such as mechanical engineering, must still bear high interest rates, especially during a period of economic difficulties.
Total loans outstanding at banks in HCM City as of the end of March were worth over VNĐ3.57 quadrillion (US$142.57 billion), a 1.9 per cent increase from the previous month, and 9.45 per cent up year-on-year, according to the central...