Beneath the Great Game geopolitics of US-Vietnam relations, there are some intriguing possibilities in the detail.

A record-breaking syndicated financing for one of Vietnam’s most interesting banks tells us much about investor sentiment towards the borrower and the country.

In a good deal for both parties, Citi makes progress on its programme of consumer business sales in Asia, while UOB gets an instant boost to its heft in Asean.

From an opening with just two stocks, in a little over two decades Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange has risen to a $200 billion market capitalisation.

As Vietnam’s public markets become more accessible, what happens to those who have built their success in private markets?

The country may soon be upgraded to the emerging market indices. But such are the market’s many anomalies, that the pioneers who first embraced its potential are still the ones that matter most today.

The country’s financial system has been transformed over the last decade, and the Viet Kieu has played a crucial role in that; Euromoney speaks to some of its leading lights about what they are doing and why.

It had the right strategy, the right management and the right customers, so why couldn’t Techcombank and its advisers get the right price on its recent IPO?

New record set twice in two weeks; Techcombank deal sees notable European and American interest.

There are not many firms in a similar position in Vietnam, and its circumstances mean its capital raising may not be replicable by other issuers. But it is still good news for the market.