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Many stocks listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) continued to enjoy positive growth in December, the southern bourse said.

The Thai Nguyen International Hospital has become the first hospital listing on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), with 41.5 million shares put up for sale on January 6.

The Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) has been among 13 commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam with highest charter capital, after increasing it to 12.088 trillion VND (526 million USD) from 9.369 trillion VND.

Vietnam’s stock market has posted record highs as the Government’s stimulus measures and good control of the coronavirus outbreak are turbo-charging the country’s economic recovery from the pandemic, according to insiders.

The following are the top 10 events of the Vietnamese securities market in 2020, selected by the Securities Journalist Club of Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed Decision 37/2020/QD-TTg on the establishment of the Vietnam Stock Exchange (VNX), with the aim of unifying the stock market and ensuring efficient, fair, open and transparent activities.

It is undeniable that adopting environment, society and governance (ESG) principles is helping local companies improve business management and attract more foreign capital.

Shares of Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB) soared 8.1 percent on Wednesday as the bank officially listed more than 2.16 billion shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE).

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.

Billions of banking stocks are about to flood the market with banks planning to pay stock dividends and issue new shares to raise their charter capital.

The PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertiliser Co., Ltd. (PVCFC)’s total urea output reached the milestone 7 millionth tonne on September 13 after almost ten years of operations.

The domestic exchange-traded fund VFMVN Diamond (HoSE: FUEVFVNĐ) on September 8 issued an additional 300,000 certificates to raise the total amount of certificates to 148.3 million.

Dr. Pham Nguyen Hoang of the Victoria University in Australia and researcher Nguyen Cong Minh of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam have conducted a study on the protection of minority shareholders in the Vietnamese context. Following is a brief introduction of their study.

The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE)’s pre-tax profits increased 19 percent year-on-year in the first six months to 238 billion VND (10.3 million USD).

The Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) in August issued securities trading codes to 296 foreign investors, the highest recorded within eight months but down 8.6 percent over the same period last year.

TheVietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) announced the appointment of Jens Lottner as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective August 18, 2020.

Experts have made differing predictions about the trend of the local stock market next week, saying it remained hard to forecast as price movements have been sensitive.

The An Phat Holdings Group on July 28 listed 132.6 million shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE).

Vietnam has been successfully developed a stock market, with the capital market playing a critical role in the economy, according to Dominic Scriven, Chairman of Dragon Capital, one of Vietnam’s leading investment firms.

A group of investors led by US-based private equity firm KKR, including Temasek Holding of Singapore, invested 15.1 trillion VND (650 million USD) in a stake of the Vinhomes Joint Stock Company (Vinhomes).