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State Bank considering reducing reserve requirements for buyers of distressed banks

The State Bank of Vietnam–the SBV–has floated the idea of allowing banks that take over distressed banks that are under the SBV special supervision to benefit from reduced reserve requirements, Vietnam News is reporting. This comes on the back of challenges offloading a number of banks that have had to be taken over by the SBV yet the SBV has been unable to offload since.

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