Shares extend losses on profit taking

Shares declined further on Monday amid rising local investors’ profit-takings, but foreign investors took the chance to increase their holdings.

More reforms needed in construction procedures

More drastic reforms of construction-related administrative procedures must be carried to improve transparency and reduce costs for enterprises, heard a conference organised by the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the Ministry of Construction and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Hà Nội yesterday.

Covid-19 accelerates banking digitisation: seminar

The Covid-19 pandemic has speeded up the banking sector’s awareness of digitisation by three to five years and forced lenders to accelerate the process to survive and grow, a forum heard in HCM City yesterday.

Financial infrastructure key to economic recovery in Asia-Pacific: APEC

As financial markets have increasingly become globalised, a more robust regional financial infrastructure network is needed to facilitate trade among APEC-member economies, ensuring economic recovery and inclusive growth in the Asia Pacific region after the pandemic ends, according to Qamar Saleem, the International Finance Corporation’s Asia-Pacific manager for Financial Institutions Group Advisory Services.

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