When mentioning Vietnam’s capital market, most investors think of the VN-Index and the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, forgetting a promising fixed-income market. Vietnam’s debt market is larger than the equity one, and debt financing remains a major source of funds in Vietnam. Unlike equity market, the fixed-income market offers...
Non-performing loans (NPLs) continue to be a challenge for Vietnam’s banking sector following the banking crunch of 2012. The government and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) have made the issue a priority. A key step was the creation of the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) in 2012. NPLs built up thanks largely to poor lending practices...
Strong economic growth and demographic change are catalysing the rapid expansion of 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 competition looks set to grow as new entrants eye the...
With economic growth, solid corporate earnings and a rising need for financing among domestic companies boosting stock markets and stimulating private equity activity, Vietnam’s capital markets have grown steadily in recent years. A wave of equitisation of state-owned enterprises is boosting the sector further, while a growing range of indices are broadening options for investors. A new...
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. Recent years have been characterised by substantial credit growth, as well as ongoing measures to address bad debt. Banking penetration is...
Given the relatively high administration costs, and low profitability, serving the insurance sector in Mexico has not traditionally been a priority for leading market players. The country can be a challenging market for insurers to operate in as it is exposed, for instance, to a full range of natural disaster risks including earthquakes,...
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