The journey to “green” the banking sector is entering an important transitional phase, as requirements for sustainable development, emission reduction, and ESG practices increasingly become standards in financial and banking operations.

Viet Nam’s banking sector has been taking proactive and flexible measures across monetary policy, interest rate and exchange rate management, credit regulation, and system restructuring to ensure balanced, safe, and efficient capital flows. These efforts aim to promptly meet financing needs for economic growth amid a global environment fraught with uncertainty and challenges.

Commercial banks in Ho Chi Minh City are stepping up lending for production and business at reasonable rates to support the city’s double-digit growth target for 2025.