Vietnam

Since 1999, SSI Securities has been a cornerstone in Vietnam’s young investment banking industry. Its 15 branches and transaction centres around the nation fuel financial-sector growth. SSI still leads in deals done, funds raised and profits earned.

If any financial institution traces Vietnam’s phoenix-like surge from the devastation of war to economic exemplar, it’s the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank. Founded in Hanoi in 1963, just as the ‘American war’ was heating up, the bank began its journey as a currency-exchange operation.

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The 30th annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll invited chief investment officers, fund managers and investment analysts to take part. Voters represented fund management houses, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and wealth managers from around the world.

As Asiamoney celebrates its 30th anniversary, the progress of Vietnam’s financial markets over the same period can be told through the experiences of one man, Dragon Capital’s Dominic Scriven.

Is Timo a café or a bank? VinaCapital’s Don Lam reckons his popular Vietnamese neobank can profitably be both – and more. Vietnam’s emergent cashed-up millennials seem to agree.

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Corporate and social responsibility isn’t much of a thing among Vietnam banks, at least not how it is conventionally understood or undertaken in other markets.