High borrowing costs push Vietnamese businesses to seek new sources of capital
Economy 14:02 12/08/2026Vietnamese businesses are struggling with high borrowing costs and limited access to bank loans, prompting them to explore other funding channels, insiders told an event in Ho Chi Minh City last weekend.
Bank of Japan set to hike rates to 31-year high, drop hawkish signals
World 15:50 12/06/2026The Bank of Japan is set to raise interest rates to a 31-year high next week and signal its readiness to keep pushing up borrowing costs, undeterred by the absence of its governor as it focuses on countering inflation risks from the Middle East war.
46 banks in Vietnam pledge to cut interest rates
Economy 12:20 10/04/2026Forty-six commercial banks in Vietnam pledged to lower both deposit and lending interest rates at a meeting with the State Bank of Vietnam on Thursday in a bid to ease financial pressure on businesses and households.
Case growing for summer pause in ECB easing cycle
World 15:27 22/05/2025The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates once again in June but the case is growing for a pause beyond that as the economy is holding up better than feared and an inflation challenge is starting to creep up on the horizon.
Banks tighten lending to prevent real estate bubble in Ho Chi Minh City
Economy 20:00 30/03/2018The city’s outstanding loans in the real estate sector have amounted to US$11.46 billion
