The central bank’s deputy governor, Nguyen Thi Hong, said on June 11 that the average lending rates remained stable while credit for certain priority sectors saw positive progress.
She elaborated that the rate for loans at a number of commercial banks has been lowered by 0.5 percentage point for well-performing customers.
The current rate ranges from 6-9% for short-term loans and 9-11% for medium and long-term loans while the lending rate for customers with healthy finances is lower, at around 4-5%.
The central bank also reported that efforts to restructure credit institutions continued to be stepped up with difficulties in tackling bad debt having been gradually resolved and commercial banks basically having finalised their restructuring plans.
As of the end of March, bad debt accounted for 2.18% of total outstanding credit, the SBV said.
It added that more than VND100 trillion (US$4.4 billion) of bad debt had been resolved during the period from August 15, 2018 to the end of March 2018.
