Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính chaired a meeting of the Government Standing Committee with commercial joint-stock banks regarding solutions to contribute to socio-economic development. VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang

HÀ NỘI - Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on September 21 chaired a meeting between Cabinet members and leaders of thirteen joint stock commercial banks to seek measures to promote national socio-economic development.

The PM asked participants to give accurate and fair assessments regarding the monetary policy and macroeconomic management of the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), including issues related to liquidity, interest rates, exchange rates, credit room, credit growth, and lending interest rates in the current context, and to propose tasks and solutions on monetary policy in the coming time.

Chính said that so far, the country had maintained macro-economic stability, reining in inflation and ensuring major balances. However, Storm Yagi caused serious losses in human lives and property, leading to a stagnation in production and business activities, affecting the macro-economy.

He expressed his hope that banks would propose new policies to enable the country to adapt to this situation, including those for people and businesses that have been hard hit by the recent storm and its subsequent flooding, while contributing their ideas on solutions related to credit growth, and reasonable interest rates with the spirit of harmonious benefits, shared risks, and harmonised interests among the State, people, and businesses, and mutual support, ensuring that no one is left behind.

The leader asked for the banks' support during this hard time, especially in interest rates, helping the people and businesses overcome current difficulties.

Noting that the 10th session of the 13th Party Central Committee affirmed the determination to promote three strategic breakthroughs and speed up administrative reform, and encourage creativity, the PM said that he was ready to listen to the opinions of banks to seek measures to boost national development.

According to the central bank, in the first eight months of this year, it proactively followed domestic and foreign economic developments to harmoniously take solutions to facilitate businesses and people's access to bank credit, removing difficulties, and restoring production and business, contributing to promoting economic growth associated with macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, and ensuring the safety of the credit institution system. It has applied flexible monetary policies, harmonising interest rates and exchange rates, and promoting credit growth.

As of September 17, credit growth of the whole system had expanded by 7.38 per cent compared to the end of 2023, with the private joint stock commercial banks recording an 8.6 per cent rise, accounting for 45 per cent of market share, the highest increase in the whole system. Meanwhile, the credit structure was in line with the orientation of economic restructuring, and continued to focus on production and business activities and priority areas.

Total assets of twenty-eight joint stock commercial banks as of June 30, 2024, had hit VNĐ9.3 quadrillion (US$377.97 billion), accounting for 45 per cent of the market share, of which 22 banks reported assets of over VNĐ100 trillion. Total mobilised capital of joint stock commercial banks reached VNĐ8.7 quadrillion, up 5.44 per cent and accounting for 46.1 per cent of the market share. After-tax profit of private joint stock commercial banks in the first six months of 2024 was about VNĐ44 trillion VNĐ. VNS