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Both the government and corporate bond segments posted faster growth, pushing Vietnam’s local currency bond market to 91.5 billion USD at the end of December 2021.

In the second quarter, corporate bonds in Vietnam posted growth of 65.6 percent quarter-on-quarter and 76 percent year-on-year.

The bond market continued to grow in the second quarter of 2019, by 2.6 percent from Q1, to 52.9 billion USD, including 48 billion USD worth of G-bonds and 5 billion USD worth of corporate bonds.

Vietnam’s local currency bond market grew 2.6 percent to 52.9 billion USD in the second quarter of this year, after a 0.7 percent expansion in the first quarter.

Vietnam remained the smallest local currency bond market among nine economies of emerging East Asia, according to the latest edition of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Bond Monitor.