Vietnam
Korean banks grapple with massive public sector debt
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	It’s now the country’s main risk.
                    
                                        
                    
                State Bank of Vietnam launches real-time FX trade monitoring system
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Partners with Thomson Reuters.
                    
                                        
                    
                BNP Paribas backs Dragon Capital’s 'World First' UCITS Vietnam Fund
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Fund distributors among the main beneficiaries.
                    
                                        
                    
                Vietnam turns to the UK for banking expertise
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Will expand cooperation in banking and finance.
                    
                                        
                    
                UOB Vietnam launches an FDI Advisory Unit
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Customers looking to expand will benefit.
                    
                                        
                    
                How slow economic reforms are hampering Vietnam banks' growth recovery
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Risk profiles to remain vulnerable.
                    
                                        
                    
                Maybank Kim Eng, State Securities Commission ink deal on Vietnam securities market
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	The 3-year agreement will strengthen the market.
                    
                                        
                    
                Bad asset quality destabilizing Vietnamese banks
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Continuing economic slowdown worsening situation.
                    
                                        
                    
                Saigon Commercial Bank forms partnership with BNP Paribas Cardif
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Bancassurance partnership agreement covers broad range.
                    
                                        
                    
                Vietnam banks plagued by deteriorating asset quality
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Smaller banks will be worst hit.
                    
                                        
                    
                Maybank's profits up 10.4% to RM3.07b
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Thanks to steady loan growth.
                    
                                        
                    
                US$474 million needed to buy Vietnamese banks' NPLs
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Bad debt bank will issue special bonds.
                    
                                        
                    
                SBV issues plan to restructure commercial banks
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Nine weak commercial banks are targets.
                    
                                        
                    
                Vietnamese central bank to hold stakes in weak banks
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	State Bank of Vietnam will then restructure banks.
                    
                                        
                    
                Vietnamese “bad debt bank” now open for business
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Mission is to prevent collapse of battered Vietnamese banks.
                    
                                        
                    
                Here's why Vietnam's banking system has been in distress this year
                                                                                                 
                        
                        	Banks' exposure to bankrupt companies is aggravating the situation.