Over 2 billion USD raised via G-bond auctions so far this year
The State Treasury of Vietnam has so far this year raised more than 51.24 trillion VND (2.19 billion USD) via Government bond (G-bond) auctions on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX).
Staff at the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) organise a G-bond auction.(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The State Treasury of Vietnam has so far this yearraised more than 51.24 trillion VND (2.19 billion USD) via Government bond(G-bond) auctions on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX).
In the latest auction held on February 20, the State Treasury offered a totalof 10 trillion VND worth of G-bonds with different maturities, includingfive-year bonds valued at 1.5 trillion VND, and 15-year bonds valued at 3trillion VND and 20-year bonds valued at 500 billion VND.
At the auction, 3.95 trillion VND was raised, of which 12 investors spent 650billion VND for five-year bonds at the average yield rate of 3.63 percent peryear, down 0.17 percentage points against the previous auction on January 30,2019; nine investors spent 2.9 trillion VND for 15-year bonds at the averageyield rate of 5 percent per year, down 0.03 percentage points against theprevious auction on February 13, 2019.
The State Treasury plans to issue five-year to 30-year G-bonds worth 260trillion VND via auctions in 2019 at an average maturity of some 13 years.
According to Tran Van Dung, Chairman of the State Securities Commission, therewere 573 listed bonds with total value of 1.12 quadrillion VND in 2018, up 10.4percent year-on-year. Of the figure, the value of G-bonds accounted for 98 percentof the total and the remainder were corporate bonds.
The market is forecast to have growth potential as its size was equal to 35.2percent of Vietnam’s total GDP last year, which remained modest compared toother regional and international bond markets such as Malaysia (97.7 percent),Singapore (86 percent), the Republic of Korea (125.7 percent) and Japan (211.4percent).
The Government has also approved the roadmap for the development of the bondsmarket by 2020 with a vision for 2030, in which the outstanding debt in theVietnamese bond market is targeted at 45 percent of the total GDP in 2020 andsome 65 percent of GDP in 2030.-VNA
About 5.95 trillion VND (256.47 million USD) was mobilised for the State Treasury of Vietnam from the auction of Government bonds at the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) this week.
More than 36.3 trillion VND (over 1.55 billion USD) was mobilised for the State Treasury of Vietnam from the auction of Government bonds (G-bonds) at the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) in January, a month-on-month fall of 19.2 percent.
In recent years, the Government bond market has become an important capital mobilisation channel for Vietnam. However, the scale of the country’s bond market is modest compared to national economic scale and to other regional countries.
The yield of Government bonds (G-bond) has continued to decline and hit seven-month lows as the US Federal Reserve (Fed) seems unlikely to hike interest rates and the domestic monetary market has shown positive movements.
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