Emerging East Asia’s total local currency bond issuance rose 7.1 percent to an all-time high of 9 trillion USD in 2021, according to the latest issue of the Asia Bond Monitor recently released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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.
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 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.