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Day: September 18, 2023

Calls to loosen lending criteria to boost business borrowing

A lot of businesses in Vietnam have already reached their maximum borrowing capacity, with no collateral left to take out new loans according to Huan Huu Nguyen, a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics, and reported in Dan Tri. Nguyen says the issue is on the demand

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Bot-trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange may soon be regulated

The State Securities Commision (SSC) has said trading firms should not deploy more automated trading-bots until it decides how to regulate this new tech, according to the Vietnam Investment Review. The article says this tech poses ‘potential risks and could destabilise the market’ though it doesn’t specify what those risks

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Is it time to abolish conditional business lines in Vietnam?

In an interview with Thoi Bao Tai Chinh last week, Cung Dinh Nguyen, the former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management Research, took aim at conditional business lines and the corresponding business conditions. He says that to grow the private sector these need to be limited or even

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