Hà Nội lured nearly US$6.27 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of 2018, up 5.4 times over the same period last year and exceeding the yearly target by 64 percent.

Some online lenders that offer very high interest rates are in fact a form of ‘black’ credit and the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) is not responsible for management over such activities, SBV deputy governor Nguyễn Thị Hồng has said.

Việt Nam’s financial marketplace and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Tima has raised US$3 million in Series B funding from Belt Road Capital Management (BRCM), a Greater Mekong-focused private equity fund, Tima announced on Monday.

Việt Nam’s first automobile brand will be officially launched at the 120th Paris Motor Show at 15:25 (Vietnamese time) today.

EVN Finance Joint Stock Company (EVN Finance) on Monday announced its entry into the consumer finance industry with the launch of a subsidiary called Easy Credit.

Việt Nam is a promising tourism market that ranks among its 10 biggest anywhere and four biggest in Southeast Asia, the Singapore Tourism Board has said.

Sen Đỏ Technology JSC, the owner of e-commerce platform sendo.vn, and GrabExpress, a delivery service available on Grab app, on October 1 announced a tie-up for a three-hour express delivery service in HCM City.

 Although Việt Nam has focused on increasing labour productivity and overall productivity growth, there have been relatively few opportunities for SMEs to get customised support as they grow, said Max Bulakovskiy, policy analyst in Global Relations at the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD).

The domestic sector’s positive export performance has contributed to a yearly rise of 15.4 per cent in the country’s nine-month export turnover at over $178.9 billion, nearly double the growth target set for the whole year by the National Assembly, GSO director Nguyễn Bích Lâm said.