Banks upbeat about Q3 2022 business results

A majority of credit institutions (CIs) are optimistic about their business performance in Q3 2022, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s latest survey on business trends of credit institutions showed.
Banks upbeat about Q3 2022 business results ảnh 1Customers at a Vietcombank branch. About 72.5-80.7% of credit institutions expected their business performance results in Q3 2022 to improve against the previous quarter. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A majority of credit institutions (CIs)are optimistic about their business performance in Q3 2022, the State Bank of Vietnam(SBV)’s latest survey on business trends of credit institutions showed.

Under the survey released last week, 72.5-80.7% of CIs expected their businessperformance results in Q3 2022 to improve against the previous quarter.

In Q3 2022, 54.6% of CIs expected their business activities to increaseslightly compared to Q2 2022, while 38.9% of CIs expected to see no change and6.5% of CIs were worried about a slight decline in business results.

In 2022, 87.7% of CIs hope their pre-tax profit growth to be positive comparedto 2021, while 3.8% of CIs expect unchanged profit. However, about 8.5% of CIsare still concerned about negative profit growth in 2022, higher than the 5.8%recorded in the survey in March 2022.

According to CIs, rising demand of the economy for banking products andservices, along with rebounding business and financial conditions of customersare the most important factors to help them improve business performance in Q22022.

Meanwhile, the main factor hindering their growth in the period was fiercercompetition in the market.

After maintaining good liquidity in Q2 2022, CIs expect the liquidity of thebanking system to be continually better in Q3 2022 and the whole year, comparedto 2021.

CIs expected the banking industry to gain an average deposit growth of 4.9%in Q3 and 11.5% for the whole year. They estimated the credit of the bankingsystem to rise by 4.1% in Q3 and reach 15% in 2022.

According to the survey results, the bad debt ratio of the banking system wasbasically unchanged, or only slightly decreasing in Q2 2022 and Q3 2022compared to the previous quarter.

CIs said the growth of the workforce and employment situation of the bankingand finance industry slowed compared to the previous quarter and was expectedto have more positive developments in the whole of 2022 compared to 2021./.     
VNA

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