Strong economic growth and demographic change are catalysing the rapid expansion of the Vietnam’s insurance sector, with premiums growing at double-digit rates and likely to do so for some years to come. Thanks to successive liberalising reforms since the 1990s, a range of foreign insurers and investors are benefitting from this growth, and...
What segment will be the main driver of growth for the Vietnamese insurance sector in 2017?
The Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) is effectively a mezzanine exchange, set up to encourage unlisted firms to participate in the securities market, with a view that those on UPCoM may later transfer onto the main market. UPCoM brings a number of benefits to investors. Transactions, clearance and...
Robust economic growth, the easing of restrictions on foreign bank ownership and increasing technological sophistication have added to the dynamism of the Vietnamese banking sector in recent years, as the industry puts the mini-crisis of 2012 behind it.
Vietnam has an exceptionally high GDP growth rate, but the prosperity has not spread across the country. GDP per capita in the two biggest cities, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, reached $2000 in 2007 and 2010, respectively, in each case marking the first boom in real estate. Since then, GDP per capita has increased by 13% per year in both cities...
How is the Vietnamese banking sector adjusting to the Basel II recommendations and regulations?
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