At the 23 October 2026 conference organised by the State Bank of Vietnam and the HCMC People's Committee, banks and businesses signed 20 cooperation agreements worth about 230 trillion VND in total. The projects span manufacturing, energy, pharmaceuticals, transport infrastructure, industrial parks and social housing. Notable deals include BIDV and VietinBank co-financing PTSC's EPIC 1 package for the Maydan Mahzam field redevelopment, worth 2.8 billion USD, and Agribank financing 4,867 billion VND for an expressway section of HCMC's Ring Road 4. Vietcombank is providing 1,113 billion VND for Becamex's social housing projects, ACB 500 billion VND for Central Medicinal Materials JSC 2, and HDBank and Vikki Bank are co-financing 50,000 billion VND for the VIFC-HCMC project cluster.
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Original headline: Các ngân hàng vừa thống nhất "bơm" 230 nghìn tỷ đồng cho doanh nghiệp và các dự án: Đâu là những cái tên chú ý?
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| Market | Vietnam stocks |
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| Close on 10/23/2026 | 1,774.15 |
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