Tran Thu
Representatives of banks and traders sign credit agreements last Friday - Photo: Thu Nguyet
Last Friday, 39 borrowers including enterprises, traders and traditional wet market management boards clinched credit contracts worth over VND3.5 trillion. This is part of the program organized by the central bank’s HCMC branch and the HCMC Department of Industry and Trade.
Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy director of the central bank’s HCMC branch, said there had been 22 credit contract signing ceremonies in 24 districts in the first seven months of this year, with 649 enterprises, 41 family-run businesses and six cooperatives lent over VND15.6 trillion.
Minh said the loans carried short-term interest rates of 7-8% per annum and a maximum 11% per annum for medium and long tenors.
In June, the central bank’s HCMC branch also cooperated with the HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) to make arrangements for 23 enterprises to borrow VND917.6 billion.
Speaking at the signing ceremony last Friday, HCMC vice chairwoman Nguyen Thi Hong said the city wanted to see businesses taking out new bank loans totaling at least VND10 trillion in the last five months of this year to bring the total in the program to VND30 trillion this year.
Đăng ký: VietNam News