Vietnam Bank Report

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26 January 2011

Vietnam banking sector INDUSTRY UPDATE

Has the storm passed?

In 2010, the banking sector lost 18% as a consequence of new issuances, dilution issues and new regulatory changes while the VNIndex was down 2%. With new regulations becoming effective, large commercial banks with adequate capital and hence lower cost of capital, better asset-liability management and lower operating cost will see higher growth opportunities and profitability than peers.

- Small capital base, high loan-to-deposit (LDR) ratios and possibility of higher non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking system are key investment risks. In 2011, ten small banks still need to raise at least

VND12,000 billion (~USD600 million) to meet the minimum capital requirement of VND3,000 billion at year end. High LDR rate with large reliance on borrowings from other credit institution coupled with high credit growth compared to deposit growth lead to imbalances in the source of funds. Besides, loans to big state-owned enterprises such as Vinashin may create higher NPL in the banking system, which can deteriorate the bottom line.

- New regulations are good catalysts for fundamental improvement in the banking system in long run. Decree 141 on minimum chartered capital of

VND3,000 billion and Circular 13 relating to sources of capital mobilisation, capital adequacy ratio, risk-weighted ratio for securities and property loans will lead to many changes in commercial banks’ operation as they should manage to raise their capital base and restructure their assets. Given the growing recovery pace of the economy, improved personal income and increasing number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), commercial banks have great potential for retail banking services and financial services for SMEs.

- We believe it is now a good time to accumulate banking stocks, especially the top-tier commercial banks with good market share and strong capital base. Valuations of banking stocks have become increasingly attractive,

currently trading at an average 2010PE of 9.9x and average 1.8x PB, lower than the general market valuations. Compared to regional peers, the Vietnamese banking sector posted high ROE of 18% and ROA of 1.5% cf. 15.8% and 1.3% ROA.

We like ACB, STB and EIB as (i) these are the pioneer banks in retail banking services in Vietnam with good brand name (ii) restructuring period will be good opportunities for large banks with strong capital base to obtain distressed assets and gain higher market share in the future (iii) attractive valuation ratios and ability to improve the bottom line. We also see positive catalysts for capital gain in the share prices of VCB and CTG as they are the top two largest banks in Vietnam with sizeable available foreign room.

BANKING

Key indicatorsNo. of listed banks 8

Total market cap (VND bn) 157,877

Market cap (USD mn) 7,518

%/ total market cap 21.1

Average P/E 2010F (x) 9.9

Average P/B 2010F (x) 1.8

ROA (%) 1.5

ROE (%) 18.0

Key banks ACB EIB VCB

Outstanding shares (mn) 938 1,056 1,759

Foreign room (%) 30% 30% 2.9%

EPS (VND) 2,520 1,642 2,303

EPS growth (%) -20% 28% -29%

P/E (x) 9.6 9.2 14.9

P/B (x) 1.9 1.1 3.2

ROE (%) 22% 13% 23%

ROA (%) 1.2% 1.8% 1.3%

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Hoa Hoang, [email protected]: +84 8 39153588 ext 146

See important disclosure at the end


26 January 2011 Vietnam banking sector update

Why the banking sector?

Maintained good profit growth even during the financial crisis

The past two years were challenging time for the global banking sector. However, Vietnam banks have managed to avoid the direct impact of the global financial crisis registering average profit growth of 26% in 2008 and 47% in 2009.

Figure 1: Profit after tax growth (% YoY)

Source: VCSC summary

During the first 3Q2010, though faced with a number of regulatory changes, the average net income growth of the larger banks remained above 23%.

Low cost-to-income ratios

Vietnam’s average cost-to-income ratio is around 40%, substantially lower than the regional peers, and above only China and Singapore. With low cost-to-income ratios, Vietnamese banks have been able to improve their bottom line and increase their profitability ratios.

Figure 2: Vietnam’s banks maintain a good cost to income ratio

Cost to income Vietnam banks’ costs are quite low compared to

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Source: VCSC summary, The Asian Banker

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Low capital base and good cost management enable Vietnamese banks to earn higher profit ratios. Except for EIB which increased its charter capital rapidly in 2007, other banks all have double-digit ROEs.

Figure 3: and high efficiency thanks to low capital base

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Capability to improve efficiency ratios thanks to potential development of retail banking services and financial services for SMEs

In 2010, Vietnam’s GDP broke through the USD100billion mark with GDP per capita at nearly USD1,200 doubling over the last 5 years. The country’s young population combined with improved personal income will lead to higher demand for retail banking services. Vietnam’s demographic should underpin growth in payment services, credit cards and personal financing services.

Figure 4: Vietnam posted a high GDP growth over the past 10 years...

GDP per capita is double within 5 years Vietnam GDP was over USD100bn in 2010

Source: CEIC, GSO

In addition, the private sector played a key role in the Vietnam economic development during the past 10 years with a CAGR of 24%. In 2008, the private sector investment accounted for c. 41% of the total investment, significantly higher than the state contribution of 29%. Though the government stimulus

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Figure 5: ... and rapid growth of the private sector

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Attractive valuations

As a consequence of new issuances and dilution issues, investors shied away from banking stocks while the sector greatly underperformed the market. In 2010, the banking sector lost 18% while the VNIndex was down 2%. However, the sectogaining 17% during that month.

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Valuations of banking stocks have become increasingly attractive, currently trading at an average 8.9x PER and average 1.6x PB, lower than the market valuations and regional peers. For large commercial banks such as ACB, STB and EIB, these banks have been trading at a large discount compared to their peers in domestic markets as these are highly liquid stocks and no available room for foreign investors (currently at 30% of charter capital).

Figure 7: Banking sector was also underperformed in 2010 in terms of PE and PB

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Compared to regional peers, the Vietnamese banking sector posted higher ROE of 18% and ROA of 1.5% cf. 15.7% ROE and 1.3% ROA.

Figure 8: Vietnam’s banks are quite small compared to regional peers but have better efficiency ratios

CountryMarket cap (USD mn)

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China (5 securities) 7,572 83,981 10.62 1.91 19.71 1.05

Thailand (10 securities) 4,765 31,726 18.00 1.79 13.44 1.24

Malaysia (10 securities) 4,164 26,634 12.43 1.81 16.08 1.16

Indonesia (18 securities) 4,256 12,351 22.06 2.87 17.80 1.78

India (36 securities) 2,062 23,012 12.39 1.59 16.17 0.91

Philippines (12 securities) 1,358 7,603 12.35 1.60 13.45 1.73

Vietnam (8 securities) 1,145 7,775 8.89 1.61 18.01 1.56

Pakistan (14 securities) 587 4,546 11.56 1.29 13.12 1.11

Sri Lanka (6 securities) 453 1,590 23.21 2.88 14.13 1.45

Average 2,929 22,135 14.61 1.93 15.77 1.33

Source: Bloomberg, 26 January 2011

We believe it is now a good time to accumulate banking stocks, especially the large bank with good market share and strong capital base. We like ACB, STB and EIB as (i) these are the pioneer banks in retail banking services in Vietnam with good brand name (ii) restructuring period will be good opportunities for large banks with strong capital base to obtain distressed assets and gain higher

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market share in the future (iii) attractive valuation ratios and ability to improve the bottom line. We also see good catalyst for capital gain in the share prices of VCB and CTG as they are the two largest banks in Vietnam with sizeable available foreign room.

Figure 10: Comparison between listed banks

Unit: VND bn VCB CTG ACB STB EIB SHB

Current Outstanding Shares (mn) 1,759 1,517 938 918 1,056 349

Share Price as 26/1/2011 (VND000) 34.3 23.5 24.4 15.8 15.2 11.2

Charter Capital 2010 17,588 15,172 9,377 9,179 10,560 3,493

Increase in 2010 charter cap 45% 35% 20% 37% 20% 75%

Current Market Capitalization 60,325 35,655 22,879 14,503 16,051 3,912

Current Free float (%) 9.3% 10.8% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Current Foreign ownership (%) 2.9% 1.0% 30% 30% 30% 1.5%

EPS 2010F 2,303 2,224 2,520 1,990 1,642 1,402

EPS growth -29% -3% -11% -20% 28% -10%

ROE 2010F 23% 23% 22% 16% 13% 18%

ROA 2010F 1.3% 0.9% 1.2% 1.3% 1.8% 1.2%

PB 2010F 3.2 2.2 2.0 1.1 1.1 1.3

PE 2010F 14.9 10.6 9.7 7.9 9.3 8.0

Source: VCSC summary, 26 Jan 2011

Structural changes improve long-term fundamentals of the sector

The State Bank of Vietnam implemented a number of new rules in 2010 that will affect the operations of commercial banks going forward.

Figure 9: New banking regulations applicable to commercial banks in 2010

No. Legal document Content Effective date

1 Decree No. 141/2006/ND-CP dated 22 November 2006

Minimum chartered capital of VND3,000bn (~USD150mn) by end of 2010

2 Circular No. 15/2009/TT-NHNN dated 10 August 2009

Requires commercial banks to use up to 30%, instead of 40%, of the short-term deposit for medium and long-term loans

1 Jan 2010

3 Letter No. 369/TB-VPCP dated 30 December 2009

Bans banks from trading gold 31 Mar 2010

4 Circular No. 07/2010/TT-NHNN dated 26 February 2010 and

Allows commercial banks to negotiate lending rates on short-term and long-term

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Circular 12/2010/TT-NHNN dated 14 April 2010

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5 Circular No. 13/2010/TT-NHNN dated 20 May 2010

Stipulates prudential ratios in operations for credit institutions

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6 Circular No. 19/2010/TT-NHNN dated 27 September 2010

Adjusts some articles in Circular 13, especially the components of total deposits

1 Oct 2010

7 Circular No. 22/2010/TT-NHNN dated 29 October 2010

Restricts gold lending to specific gold-related entities

29 Oct 2010

8 Law No. 47/2010/QH12 on

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Regulates the operations of credit institutions

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Circular 13 and the 2010 Law on Credit Institutions will bring about fundamental improvements as commercial banks will have to make appropriate changes in their operations and development strategies.

Effects of Decree 141

Decree No. 141/2006/ND-CP, issued on 22 November 2006, required all commercial banks to have a minimum chartered capital of VND3,000bn (c. USD150mn) by the end of 2010.

At the beginning of 2010, there were 22 commercial banks with a chartered capital below the VND3,000bn threshold and the sector, as whole, would need at least VND33,000bn to meet the minimum capital requirement. Concurrently, the larger commercial banks had plans to increase their capital base to meet the new CAR requirements. As a result, fear of oversupply of bank stocks led to a sluggish performance in the sector for the whole of 2010.

Until December 2010, there were 10 small commercial banks that were unable to raise the charter capital to VND3,000 billion. During 2010, these banks can only attract VND3,507 billion, approximately one fourth of total capital demand. As such, these banks will need to raise at least VND12,000 billion (~USD600 million) in 2011 to meet the minimum capital requirement of VND3,000 billion at the end of 2011.

However, on 14 December 2010, the SBV extended the deadline until the end of 2011. The deferment has lessened the immediate capital need allowing the sector to recover to attractive levels, laying the foundation for a successful capital raise in 2011.

Figure 11: Banks with charter capital of less than VND3,000 billion at the end of 2010

Bank nameCharter capital @ 31/12/2009

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1 OCB 2,000 2,635 635 465

2 Western Bank 2,000 2,000 - 1,000

3 Nam A 2,000 2,000 - 1,000

4 Viet A 1,515 2,087 572 913



Bank nameCharter capital @ 31/12/2009

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5 Kien Long 1,000 2,000 1,000 1,000

6 Gia Dinh 1,000 2,000 1,000 1,000

7 SG Cong thuong 1,500 1,800 300 1,200

8 Bao Viet 1,500 1,500 - 1,500

9 VN Thuong tin 1,000 1,000 - 2,000

10 Petrolimex 1,000 1,000 - 2,000

Total 14,515 18,022 3,507 12,078

Source: Banks’ website, SBV, VCSC summary

Impact of Circular 13

Circular 13 implements a set of important obligations for the banking sector:

- The CAR is raised from 8% to 9%.

- The loans-to-total-deposits ratio is not allowed to exceed 80%.

- The risk weight ratio for securities and property loans is 250% (previously 100%).

- Investments in other credit institutions and subsidiaries in the form of capital contribution or purchase of shares are excluded from Tier 1 capital.

- Total investment in subsidiaries and affiliates must not exceed 25% of the credit institutions’ charter capital and reserve funds.

- Total capital contribution and financial investments in all enterprises, investment funds, investment projects or other credit institutions and in affiliated companies must not exceed 40% of credit institutions’ charter capital and reserve funds.

- Credit institutions are banned from lending to affiliated securities trading businesses or from providing unsecured loans for securities investment and trading. Total outstanding loans for securities investments and trading must not exceed 20% of the bank’s charter capital.

With these requirements, many of the commercial banks will have to restructure their assets and operations, which may lead to higher cost of fund and lower net interest margin.

Enhancing financial capability

Currently, among the 40 commercial banks, only ten have a charter capital of over VND5,000 billion, of which only VCB, CTG and EIB have a charter capital above VND10,000 billion (excluding the two largest state-owned commercial banks BIDV and Agribank).

The average chartered capital of the Vietnam banking system is VND3,666 billion (~USD183 million), much lower than those of regional peers. As the average capital base of the banking system is still low, the capital raising story of the banking system not only created a great pressure on the local market in 2010 but may last through 2-3 years afterwards.

For 10 small banks with chartered capital below VND3,000 billion, they will need to fulfil their capital raising plan in 2011. Also, such large bank as CTG also has plan to increase its chartered capital from VND15,172 billion to c. VND30,000 billion in 2011.



Expanding sources of capital mobilisation

Prior to Circular 22, banks were allowed to convert gold deposits into Vietnam Dong equivalent for lending. However, as this regulation was removed, banks have to attract more VND deposits, mainly short-term deposits to ensure the balance between deposits and loans.

We should continue to see banks divesting their positions in other credit institutions and non-core businesses to enhance their owner’s equity because these are excluded from Tier 1’s capital. VCB recently sold a portion of its ownership in EIB and PVD.

Issuing long-term bonds

As banks are allowed to include bonds of over 5-year term into their Tier 2 capital, many banks plan to issue longer-term bonds with or without conversion terms. This should allow banks to enhance their asset-liability management, reducing their liquidity risk. Both ACB and Techcombank issued VND3,000bn 10-year bonds to enhance their capital base.

Reducing loans to securities and real estate sectors and increasing focus on consumer lending

Banks normally charge higher interest rates for securities and real estate lending. However, these loans now have a higher risk weight ratio of 250%, which will impact the cost of funding and lower the interest income.

Expanding sources of capital mobilisation will raise banks’ cost of capital. Meanwhile, reducing loans to fields that can afford high lending interest rate such as securities, real estate loans lessen banks’ interest income. Consequently, we believe banks will increase their focus on consumer loans, which can charge higher interest rates and are subject to a lower risk weight ratio.

The 2010 law on credit institutions

The law on credit institutions stipulates that commercial banks must establish or acquire subsidiaries/ associates to carry out the following business operations: underwriting, securities brokerage, financial leasing and insurance. Meanwhile, under Circular 13, investments in other credit institutions and affiliated companies in the form of capital contribution or purchase of shares are excluded from Tier 1 capital.

Under the new law, only commercial banks are allowed to provide such banking services as capital mobilisation, lending and settlement services for organizations and individuals. Non-banking institutions, such as financial leasing companies, are prohibited from receiving deposits from individuals and provide payment services via clients’ bank accounts. Accordingly, finance companies such as PVF will face difficulties in expanding their operations as they can only serve organizations and not extend to retail clients. We believe the retail segment will become increasingly important for commercial banks. Credit institutions are banned from lending:

- to securities brokers that the credit institutions hold control.

- if secured assets are stocks of the credit institution or its subsidiaries.

- to make capital contributions to another credit institution if secured assets are stocks of the credit institution receiving the contributed capital.

In addition, under the new banking law, banks must comply with the following requirements:

- Total outstanding loans to a subsidiary/associate that the credit institution holds control are not allowed to exceed 10% of the credit institution’s equity and 20% of the credit institution’s equity is the limit for total outstanding loans to all subsidiaries and associates.



- Total outstanding loans to a client are not allowed to exceed 15% of the credit institution’s equity and total outstanding loans to a client and related person should not exceed 25% of the credit institution’s equity.

Key investment risks

Many banks in Vietnam have a small capital base compared to total assets

At the end of 2009, according to The Asian Banker, average total assets of the top 10 largest banks in Vietnam was USD8,363 million or USD6,694 million if the state-owned bank - Agribank is excluded. The small size of Vietnam banks puts individual banks under pressure to increase their capital base and ensure comfortable capital adequacy ratios. As the CAR is not available and vary from countries to countries, we use equity/asset ratio to compare between banks in Vietnam and in the region.

Figure 12: Top 10 largest banks in Vietnam in term of assets and its regional peers

Unit: USD mn Assets Net profit Equity ROE (%) Equity/Asset (%)

Agribank 23,384 196 751 26.1 3.2

Vietcombank (*) 15,050 232 903 25.7 6.0

Vietinbank (*) 13,193 140 711 19.7 5.4

ACB (*) 9,085 119 502 23.7 5.5

STB (*) 5,629 90 517 17.4 9.2

Military Bank 3,734 64 342 18.7 9.2

EIB (*) 3,542 61 735 8.3 20.7

TCB 3,495 69 280 24.6 8.0

Maritime bank 3,457 42 152 27.6 4.4

VIB 3,065 25 147 17.0 4.8

Average top 10 banks in:

Vietnam 8,363 104 504 20.9 7.6

Philippines 9,039 84 902 10.8 10.0

Indonesia 17,878 312 1,580 17.2 8.6

Thailand 25,936 265 2,389 9.9 9.4

Malaysia 35,923 338 2,850 14.1 7.5

India 83,289 726 5,058 17.0 5.9

China 749,372 6,925 35,122 20.4 4.6

Source: The Asian Banker (*) listed banks in Vietnam

Even large banks such as VCB or CTG had an equity-to-total-asset ratio of less than 8% in 3Q2010. As such, the minimum CAR of 9% as required by Circular 13 from 1 October 2010, may be difficult to attain for many of the banks in the country.



Figure 13: 3Q2010 Equity/Total asset (%)


High LDR ratios

At the end of the third quarter of 2010, four of the five banks in our coverage list had loans-to-deposits ratios of over 80%. Circular 19 expands the total deposit base when calculating LDR ratios, leaving some buffer for the banking system. Sources of capital that banks can use for lending include:

Non-term and term deposits from individuals.

Term deposits from organizations including those from other credit institutions.

25% of non-term deposits from economic institutions (excluding those from credit institutions). This means the larger banks will benefit from the large balance of non-term deposits of Vietnam’s State Treasury of c. VND52,000 billion, in which c. VND20,000 billion are at the four largest banks Agribank, BIDV, VCB and CTG.

Loans from domestic organizations and other credit institutions with terms of three months or more.

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Figure 14: High loan to deposit ratio with large reliance on borrowings from other credit institutions

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Credit growth in Vietnam has historically been much higher than customer deposits growth, extending the spread between short-term deposits for longer-term loans. For the whole banking system, since 2007 credit growth has remained above deposit growth.

Figure 15: Credit growth is always much higher than deposit growth

The whole banking system 2009 deposit and credit growth of selected banks

Source: SBV, VCSC summary

Possibility of higher NPL ratios

Although, average NPL remained at c. 2.5% in 2010, actual NPL in the banking system may be higher as some banks may not make full provisions for big state-owned enterprises (SOEs) loans. Vinashin is now in restructuring total outstanding loans of VND86,000 billion, of which c. VND26,000bn is in the banking system. These loans have not been included in the current NPL of the banking system. According to SBV’s estimate, NPL could rise to 3.2% if they take into account Vinashin’s debt.

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Appendix 1: Comparison of listed banks

COMPARABLE (VND bn) VCB CTG ACB STB EIB SHB

Current Outstanding Shares (mn) 1,759 1,517 938 918 1,056 349

Share Price 26/01/2011 (VND000) 34.3 23.5 24.4 15.8 15.2 11.2

Charter Capital 2009 12,100 11,252 7,814 6,700 8,800 2,000

Charter Capital 2010 17,588 15,172 9,377 9,179 10,560 3,493

Increase in 2010 charter cap 45% 35% 20% 37% 20% 75%

Current Market Capitalization 60,325 35,655 22,879 14,503 16,051 3,912

Current Free float (%) 9.3% 10.8% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Current Foreign ownership (%) 2.9% 1.0% 30% 30% 30% 1.5%

Profit before tax

2009 A 5,004 3,373 2,838 2,175 1,533 415

2010 F 5,400 4,500 3,150 2,436 2,312 653

2010 earnings growth F 8% 33% 11% 12% 51% 57%

Profit after tax (PAT)

2009 A 3,945 2,573 2,201 1,671 1,132 311

2010 F 4,050 3,375 2,363 1,827 1,734 490

Total loans (before provision)

2009 A 141,621 163,170 62,358 59,657 38,381 12,829

2010 F 171,361 233,333 96,000 80,000 60,642 16,677

Total Deposit (*)

2009 A 207,542 177,034 108,992 85,632 41,294 24,615

2010 F 259,428 256,699 163,488 119,885 67,000 32,000

Total assets

2009 A 256,053 243,785 167,881 104,019 65,488 27,439

2010 F 307,264 368,115 201,457 137,305 94,958 40,000

Credit growth (%)

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2010 F 21% 43% 54% 34% 58% 30%

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2010 F 25% 45% 50% 40% 43% 30%

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2009 A 15% 24% 63% 44% 37% 90%

2010 F 20% 51% 20% 32% 45% 46%

Loan/Deposit rate (%)

2009 A 68% 92% 57% 70% 93% 52%

2010 F 66% 91% 59% 67% 91% 52%

Equity/Total asset (%)

2009 A 7% 5% 6% 10% 20% 9%

2010 F 6% 5% 6% 9% 15% 7%

EPS 2010F 2,303 2,224 2,520 1,990 1,642 1,402

EPS growth -29% -3% -11% -20% 28% -10%

ROA 2010F 1.3% 0.9% 1.2% 1.3% 1.8% 1.2%

ROE 2010F 23% 23% 22% 16% 13% 18%

PB 2010F 3.2 2.2 2.0 1.1 1.1 1.3

PE 2010F 14.9 10.6 9.7 7.9 9.3 8.0

* Total deposit includes customer deposit and other credit institutions deposit.



Appendix 2: Charter capital increase of commercial banks in Vietnam

Charter capital (VND bn) Not yet issued in 2010Bank name 12/31/2009 12/31/2010 Increase

1 VCB HOSE 13,224 17,588 4,364

2 CTG HOSE 11,253 15,172 3,919

3 EIB HOSE 8,800 10,560 1,760

4 ACB HNX 7,814 9,377 1,563

5 STB HOSE 6,700 9,179 2,479

6 SHB HNX 2,000 3,498 1,498

7 NVB HNX 1,000 3,304 2,304

8 HBB HNX 3,000 3,000 - 1,050

Total listed banks 20,514 28,357 7,843

9 TCB OTC 5,400 6,932 1,532

10 MB OTC 5,300 6,700 1,400

11 Dong Nam A OTC 5,068 5,334 266

12 Maritime Bank OTC 3,000 5,000 2,000

13 Dong A OTC 3,400 4,500 1,100

14 SCB OTC 3,653 4,185 532

15 VIB OTC 3,000 4,000 1,000

16 ABB OTC 3,482 3,830 348

17 Lien Viet OTC 3,650 3,650 - 1,510

18 Tin Nghia OTC 3,399 3,399 -

19 VP Bank OTC 2,117 4,000 1,883

20 Southern Bank OTC 2,568 3,049 481

21 Ocean Bank OTC 2,000 3,500 1,500 1,500

22 Dai tin OTC 2,000 3,000 1,000

23 Tien Phong OTC 2,000 3,000 1,000

24 Bac A OTC 2,120 3,000 880

25 GP Bank OTC 2,000 3,018 1,018

26 HDB OTC 1,550 3,000 1,450

27 Mekong housing OTC 1,000 3,000 2,000

28 Dai A OTC 1,000 3,100 2,100

29 De Nhat OTC 1,000 3,000 2,000

30 Gia Dinh OTC 1,000 2,000 1,000

31 OCB OTC 2,000 2,635 635 465

32 Western Bank OTC 2,000 2,000 - 1,000

33 Viet A OTC 1,515 2,087 572 913

34 Kien Long OTC 1,000 2,000 1,000

35 Nam A OTC 2,000 2,000 - 1,000

36 Saigon Cong thuong OTC 1,500 1,800 300 1,200

37 Bao Viet OTC 1,500 1,500 - 1,500

38 VN thuong tin OTC 1,000 1,000 - 2,000

39 Petrolimex OTC 1,000 1,000 - 2,000

Total OTC banks 73,222 100,219 26,997

Total Banks 93,737 128,576 34,840



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