Major commercial banks agree to further reduce interest rates
Four State-owned commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam have reached a high consensus on the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)'s policy on reducing interest rates in the coming time.
Hanoi (VNA) - Four State-owned commercial joint stock banks inVietnam have reached a high consensus on the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)'spolicy on reducing interest rates in the coming time.
The information was released by Pham Chi Quang, Director ofthe SBV’s Monetary Policy Department, at a conference on credit work and theimplementation of Circular 02/2023 to discuss solutions to support creditgrowth this year, held in Hanoi on April 25.
Quang said that in recent times, the Government and the centralbank have continuously issued policies to assist businesses and people andremove difficulties in the real estate and corporate bonds markets such asincreasing money supply, reducing interest rates, purchasing valuable papers,and continuously reducing interest rates on the open market from 6% to 5% atpresent.
In addition, the SBV has also bought a large amount offoreign currencies to increase foreign exchange reserves. Since the beginningof this year, it has reduced regulatory interest rates twice, while the interestrates for new loans have decreased by 0.6% compared to the end of 2022 and willbe on a downward trend in the coming time.
The SBV’s permanent Deputy Governor Dao Minh Tu pointed to abnormally high lending interest rates in some banks such as KienlongBank,VPBank, and VietABank. He demanded those banks to explain the reason behind the high rates to the SBV within next week.
He also requested inspection and supervision agencies to closelymonitor the interest rate situation of these banks./.
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