The total value of shares auctioned by the Hà Nội Stock Exchange (HNX) since the beginning of 2018 has reached over VNĐ10.8 trillion (US$463 million), according to the northern stock bourse regulator.

Sacombank has launched a programme called 4.0 Enterprise Bank with preferential fees and promotions worth around VNĐ2 billion (US$85,574) to corporate customers using online banking services.

Liquidity in the banking system has improved in the past week, pushing the State Bank of Việt Nam to make a net withdrawal of over VNĐ13.6 trillion (US$581.2 million).

The Government should have specific measures to enhance collaboration between academia and businesses so that more research can be converted into practical technology, a workshop heard in HCM City on October 3.

Peru’s Telecommunications Regulatory Agency announced that at the end of the second quarter Bitel had 5.1 million subscribers equivalent to a market share of 13.5 per cent.

The capital city of Hà Nội will ensure supply and demand for essential goods is in place ahead of the New Year of 2019 and the Lunar New Year festivals.

More than 20.8 million shares of Phục Hưng Holdings Joint Stock Company were officially listed on the HCM City Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The shares, coded PHC, will be traded from a starting price of VNĐ15,000 (US$0.64) with total listing value of VNĐ208 billion.

Google has announced the removal of 56 gambling applications from its Google Play store because the games were not compliant with Việt Nam’s established laws, according to Deputy Director of the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information Lê Quang Tự Do.

All financial targets of the Viêt Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) in the past nine months have been surpassed thanks to the improvement in the price of crude oil, according to insiders.

State-owned shipping firm Việt Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) will trade 5.4 million shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) on October 8.

Military-run telecom group Viettel on Tuesday was honoured as the fastest mobile network in Việt Nam in the first half of this year.

Việt Nam’s benchmark VN Index recovered from Monday’s decline with a robust increase in trading liquidity amid heavy profit-taking pressure.

The Vietnamese Government will continue to support and solidify legal regulations for cashless payment systems, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ told Anthony Tan, CEO and co-founder of Grab – a ride-hailing platform in Southeast Asia which has become popular in Việt Nam over the past five years.

The State Bank of Việt Nam is carefully studying international models of peer-to-peer lending (P2P) to develop a legal framework to effectively manage the country’s nascent fintech business, according to SBV deputy governor Nguyễn Kim Anh.

The Vietnam Frontier Summit 2018, a one-day conference, will take place in Hà Nội on October 6 with the theme ‘Fostering innovation with frontier technologies’.

A wide range of products, technologies and equipment used in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors will be on display at Growtech, an international agriculture–forestry–fishery exhibition to be held in Hà Nội next month.

The model of distributing insurance products via banks (bancassurance) has contributed significantly to increasing insurers’ revenue, but experts warned that the overheating growth of the business could cause insurers to have to pay compensations due to mistakes made by bank employees, who also act as insurance products consultants.

Efficient restructuring of the agricultural sector has brought good results in production and business in the last few months, so the sector expects to gain stronger growth in production and business this year and beyond, said experts.