The government has asked for an extension to a pilot programme designed to handle bad debt from domestic financial institutions during a meeting with the National Assembly yesterday in Ha Noi.
The Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) on Wednesday completed settling a total of VND3 trillion (US$129.7 million) worth of bonds sold to the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC).
Since Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) seized Sai Gon One Tower using the authority conferred on it by Resolution 42 on settling bad debts, several banks have followed suit and offered mortgaged assets for sale to help pay their bad...
Credit institutions have been forced to sell their non-performing loans
(NPLs) to national debt dealer Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC)
to meet regulated deadlines.
Viet Nam Construction Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VNCB) needs VND40
trillion (US$1.9 billion) to restructure its operations, said Deputy
Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam Nguyen Phuoc Thanh.
The Vietnamese economy is facing three major challenges: low credit
growth, slow pace of settlement of non-performing loans and sluggish
business and production.
The new Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), formed by its 2012 merger with two
other joint stock banks, Viet Nam Tin Nghia and De Nhat, is turning
things around after a difficult start.
Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) will have to publish information
about its activities and become more transparent under a new regulation
issued by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).
Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam Nguyen Van Binh has signed a
decision to set up the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC),
effective from July 9 this year, in a move to resolve bad debts and
boost credit growth.