SSI Research forecasts that eight banks plan to issue shares between Q4 2026 and 2027, with an estimated total value of 143,830 billion VND (about 5.4 billion USD), which could lift the equity of listed banks by about 6.9%. NCB leads with about 33,000 billion VND, followed by Vietcombank at about 31,771 billion VND and BIDV at about 28,080 billion VND, while HDBank, VPBank, MB and MSB also plan significant capital increases. System-wide credit growth could reach 16-17% in 2027, but the credit-deposit gap was still close to 2.5 million billion VND in Q3, adding pressure on funding. An economist at the University of Economics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, says capital increases should be matched with credit discipline and cash-flow-based appraisal, and should not place most long-term financing burden on commercial banks.
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