The State Securities Commission (SSC) has required relevant companies and funds not to engage in any issuance, transaction or brokerage activities related to cryptocurrencies.
Vietnam’s stock market is likely to recover in the remaining months of 2018 thanks to Government plans to develop the private sector and to attract local and international investors, experts have said.
Foreign investors acquired more than 40.5 trillion VND (1.74 billion USD) worth of Vietnamese equities in net value in the first six months of the year.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Hanoi Stock Exchange and Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange held a seminar in Hanoi on June 18 to discuss sustainability reporting for listed Vietnamese companies.
The Council of the Vietnam Corporate Governance Initiative (VCGI) launched the Vietnam Institute of Directors (VIOD) in Hanoi on April 5.
Vietnam’s stock market is expected to rise further after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday and even throughout 2018, boosted by positive macro economic development as well as support of foreign traders
An update on the securities law this year focuses on nine targets in the hope of giving a boost to the development of the securities market as well as the broader financial sector.
It remains impossible for Vietnam’s securities market to get promoted from a frontier market to an emerging market this year, officials say.
The State Securities Commission (SSC) has issued a draft regulation requiring the initial margin ratio contracted by securities companies for margin lending to be at least 60 per cent.
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), one of Vietnam’s two main bourses, continues halting stock trading services on January 24 to test-run the market after technical breakdown occurred two days ago.
Chairman of the State Securities Commission (SSC) Tran Van Dung has expressed his hope that the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) will resume operation on January 24 following the technical breakdown
The Government needs to enlarge the scale of the market and lure more State-owned enterprises to list shares through speeding up their equitisation, according to Luu Trung Thai, Vice Chairman of Military Bank.
The Securities Journalists Club (SJC) on December 27 announced the top 10 events of Vietnam’s stock market in 2017, a year of many new records.
The new law on securities should allow full foreign ownership at public companies and investment funds, according to members of the Vietnam Business Forum’s (VBF) working group on capital market.
Clear, transparent and efficient policies are needed to encourage more foreign investors to jump into the Vietnamese securities market if it is to reach its considerable potential.
The new investment tool, covered warrant, will start listing and trading on the HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE) in November, according to the State Securities Commission (SSC).
The Ministry of Finance has developed a draft circular that provides a general legal framework on the electronic trading activities at the stock market.
The Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank has no foreign stakeholder following HSBC Bank plc’s divestment in July, and has requested shareholders to approve zero foreign ownership.
