An investor traces stock fluctuations (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) granted new securitiestrading codes to 356 foreign institutional and individual investors in April.
Thefigure represents a rise of 93 codes compared to the previous month, but isless than half of that in the same period last year.
TheVSD also approved information changes for 36 foreign investors and cancelled thecodes of six others last month.
Thereare currently 30,250 securities trading codes issued for foreign investors, whichbelong to 4,240 institutional and 26,000 individual ones.
In2018, VDS granted 5,537 securities trading codes to foreign investors, 2,300higher than 2017.
Lastyear, foreign investors pumped a net value of 41.7 trillion USD into Vietnam’ssecurities market, a surge of 61.3 percent.
Vietnam’sstock market is expected to attract more foreign capital when it is upgradedfrom frontier market status to emerging, according to Bao Viet SecuritiesCompany.
Since the beginning of this year, the country’sstock market has witnessed strong inflows of foreign investment.
As of February 15, foreign investors’ netpurchases reached nearly 4 trillion VND (173.1 million USD).-VNA
Some 232 foreign investors were granted securities trading codes in May, of which 198 were individuals and 34 were organisations, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository.
The Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) granted some 659 trading codes to foreign investors, including 58 institutions and 601 individuals, in January.
About 190 foreign investors were granted securities trading codes in February, bringing the total number of foreign investors participating in Vietnam’s securities market to 29,454, according to statistics of the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD).
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An investor traces stock fluctuations (Photo: VNA) 
