A new chapter is expected to unfold in Vietnam's financial market, as companies across various sectors gear up for their initial public offerings (IPOs), signalling a notable shift in the country's investment landscape.
Numerous businesses are revisiting the idea of issuing shares to the public for their initial public offering (IPO), which presents fresh investment prospects but also carries considerable risks.
The lack of initial public offerings (IPOs) from new market entrants makes it difficult for the securities market of Vietnam, which is dominated by banking stocks, to attract foreign capital.
Vietnamese internet company VNG Corp, under trading code VNZ, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US via VNG Ltd, according to Reuters.
The Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IPO) under the Ministry of Science and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strengthening intellectual property cooperation at a ceremony on June 22 in Hanoi.
The initial public offering (IPO) market of Thailand this year is expected to outperform 2022 as it has continued to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to local media.
Indonesia aims to raise 170 trillion rupiah (10.92 billion USD) in the capital market in 2023, including from initial public offerings and debt instruments, well below the amount raised in 2022, the country's financial regulator said on January 2.
VNG Corporation, a technology "unicorn" of Vietnam, is considering listing shares in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a valuation of about 2-3 billion USD.
The Prime Minister has signed a decision approving an equitisation plan designed for the Power Generation Corporation 2 (EVNGENCO 2), a subsidiary of the Vietnam Electricity (EVN).
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) recently announced its cooperation with An Phat Holdings (APH) and an expected investment of 20 million USD to fund APH’s first compostable material manufacturing plant in Vietnam and the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia.
Despite the slowdown in global deal-making due to ongoing worldwide economic uncertainty, Vietnam remains active in M&A in 2020, according to a new report by Baker McKenzie.
The new budget carrier Bamboo Airways plans to list 400 million shares on Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange or Hanoi Stock Exchange in January 2020 at the earliest.
The Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB) is planning to list its shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) in the third quarter of 2019.
No State-owned enterprises (SOEs) gained approval for their equitisation plans in the first three months of 2019, according to the Ministry of Finance’s Corporate Finance Department.
The slow listing of post-equitisation firms, including State-owned enterprises (SOEs), may make Vietnamese firms less attractive regarding a lack of corporate transparency and government agencies managing those firms must be blamed for the problem.
Over 480 million shares that the State-owned Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) failed to sell at its recent initial public offering (IPO) will be offered to investors in the near future.
Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is welcoming all investors interested in becoming shareholders of the corporation during its initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for September 5 at the Hanoi Stock Exchange.
The Government plans not to license any more wholly foreign-owned banks in Vietnam but encourages foreign banks to buy weak domestic banks, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.