Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HCMC – Despite the collection of inside-network ATM (automated teller machine) transaction fees being applicable from last Friday, only 12 of 47 banks charge ATM card users, with 10 banks applying the maximum rate of VND1,000 for each transaction.

Hanoi - Vietnam has approved a broad plan to boost its economy to 2020, focusing on restructuring public investment, banks and state-owned enterprises while controlling inflation and maintaining growth.

Credit Suisse Group AG will accept a debt restructuring plan that Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group put to its creditors, helping to resolve negotiations surrounding a default that occurred more than two years ago, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The World Bank said it is open to a new loan that may provide support for a potential recapitalization of Vietnamese banks, which are struggling with rising levels of bad debt that have slowed credit growth.

Commercial banks have been making fat profits from ATM services, but they have decided to collect fees from inner-network transactions as well.

Vietnam’s economy grew at the slowest pace in 13 years in 2012 as a fourth-quarter pickup failed to counter a slowdown in bank lending and domestic demand.

HCMC – More Vietnamese consumers are using cards to make payments when shopping, so enterprises should pay attention to this change in consumption habit to adopt better sales policies.

HCMC – The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has unveiled a number of basic indicators of the banking sector, which show the health of the banking system had weakened by end-September, reflecting the decline of the economy.

Vietnam faces “high risks” that inflation will accelerate toward the end of the year as the government strives to spur lending and help businesses, according to a central bank official.

HANOI—The State Bank of Vietnam said the central government ordered it to take measures to clean up bad debt in the banking system, as authorities try to stave off downward pressure on the economy.

HA NOI — The board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) said it had voted to authorise a US$118 million direct loan to the Vietnamese Government for the export of a Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company telecommunications satellite and additional goods and services.

HANOI - Trois responsables de la première banque privée du Vietnam, récemment touchée par un scandale qui ébranle le système bancaire du pays communiste, ont démissionné, a-t-elle indiqué jeudi alors que l'enquête prend de l'ampleur.

Until a few years ago, Vietnam was one of the world's hottest emerging markets. Now it faces an urgent task: fix a beleaguered banking system or watch its economy continue to slip behind faster-growing neighbors.

Vietnam risks becoming the biggest East Asian economy to seek an International Monetary Fund rescue loan since the region’s financial crisis more than a decade ago as it moves to support a faltering banking system.

HANOI — Vietnam arrested another top banker Thursday, state media said, widening a police probe into the communist country's banking sector which has rattled markets and triggered a run on deposits.