In recent years, Vietnam has reversed the rapid rise in public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) debt seen in the years up to the 12th Party Congress of January 2016.

External risks from slower partner country growth and trade policy uncertainty remain elevated; they dominate the balance of risks. Banking sector fragilities continue to pose risks, although the bank recapitalization under way is a mitigating factor...

So far, the size of the stake and the amount expected to be raised are not yet to be announced. FactSet data shows that Vietnamese’s government holds 44% of MBBank through some military-linked companies...

The number of international tourism arrivals to Vietnam has nearly quadrupled during this period, from 4.2 million in 2008 to 15.5 million in 2018.

After having surplus in the previous season, the global suger market will turn to have deficit in the 2019-2020 season because many producing countries scale down production, thus the sugar prices are expected to surge...

Competition in the fintech is getting intensely high. This rise in competition comes amid concerted efforts by the government to increase the use of digital payments in Vietnam, which lags behind its neighbors.

Recently, VPBank launched BizPay, this B2B payment solution helps companies to ensure funds for some quick payments, companies become more active in managing money flow right on the apps.

So far, according to VCCI, small and medium size companies have not paid enough consideration to digital tranformation, but that is something should be done right away.

Lotte has rapidly expanded in terms of scale, but faces to accumulated loss of VND 800 billion by the end of 2017, according to auditing company PwC.

Under the circumstance of many other supermarket operators run the model of complex shopping centers with many other types of conveniences like cinemas, fastfood chains, the shopping only model of Auchan does not attract customers.

The SBV has done remarkably good job in maintaining the credit system. In recent years, the economy grew more than 7% but the credit growth was just 14%.

In order to support companies to increase competitiveness, promote export, attention should be given to loan interest rates and credit growth rates.