FInancial and Banking Systems

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3.2 Financial system
3.2.1
Banking system
Financial liberalization in Vietnam have speed up from the early of the 1990-s, the banking system in Vietnam particularly and the financial system in generally has achieved a lot of progress. These twenty years of progress have proved that, the banking system has been transferring from a one-tier system into a two-tier system which allowed all households to compete fairly and effectively. In 1990 two important Decrees were announced. First was the Decree on the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the second one was the Decree on Banks, Credit cooperative and financial companies. Actually these decrees in fact divided the Vietnamese financial system from monopoly (or one-tier) system into two-tier system, in which SBV now mainly acted as a central bank, while other banks and financial companies can have independently freedom to be established, acted and even closed. Improvements in banking sector are mainly derived from cooperative activities and initiatives of IMF and WTO via Vietnamese government. Since 1991 the number of state-owned commercial banks (SOB) in Vietnam went up by one unit reaching 5 SOB-s in 2010. As a result of signed decrees which were mentioned above, in 1991-2013 the number of operating joint-stock commercial banks (JSB) raised to 39 while in early 1990-s there was only 4 JSB-s on average. On the other hand Vietnamese banking system by 2013 have experienced high increase in the number of established joint-venture banks which in its turn means the lowered rate of government intervention to financial venture establishment. The crucial changes in terms of independent multilateral structuring and injections of foreign financial institutions have pledged in Vietnam since 200...

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...ing sector was around 1,800 trillion VND () during 1995-2010 period.
• Present inflation rate of the VND is about 6.8%.
• One stock exchange, established in July 2000 in Ho Chi Minh City.


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