Introduction to Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam - South Saigon Branch


compliance and execution of officers throughout the system.

- Continue to innovate and modernize technology to meet the increasing demands of customers in business and support management and operations.

- Strengthen external relations; effectively carry out information and propaganda activities, communication activities about the image, brand and products of NHNT in the system as well as in the market.

- Issue and complete NHNT's processes and regulations to comply with legal regulations, gradually move towards international standards and to minimize risks in operations.

- Continue to select strategic partners according to established criteria, issue shares to increase charter capital and increase safety coefficient (CAr) by 10%.

2.2 Introduction to Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam - South Saigon Branch

2.2.1 Formation and development process

With the aim of finding solutions for economic development in the early 90s in Vietnam, the Government approved the project to establish the first Export Processing Zone of Vietnam on November 25, 1991, Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone.

In order to facilitate the construction and development of the export processing zone, there must be a bank responsible for transferring capital from outside and performing banking services such as: opening deposit accounts, making payments, transferring money, granting credit, exchanging foreign currency... in the best way for investors and for companies and enterprises in the export processing zone. Therefore, on January 25, 1993, the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam issued Decision No. 24/NHQD assigning the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank to open branches in export processing zones in Vietnam. Implementing this decision, on March 26, 1993, the General Director of the State Bank of Vietnam issued Decision No. 70/TCCB on the establishment of Tan Thuan Joint Stock Commercial Bank.

VCB Nam Sai Gon was established on September 25, 1993, headquartered in Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. It is the first branch serving investors inside and outside the Export Processing Zone, which is considered the most successful export processing zone in Southeast Asia in the 90s of the last century.

Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam - Tan Thuan Branch changed its name to Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam - Nam Saigon Branch according to Decision No.


533/QD.NHNT.TCCB-DT of the Board of Directors of Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade dated June 5, 2008.

After 17 years of establishment and development, VCB Nam Sai Gon is now one of the largest branches in the NHNT system and the second largest branch in Ho Chi Minh City with 200 employees, 1 head office in Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, and 5 affiliated transaction offices.

On November 12, 2009, VCB Nam Sai Gon signed a contract to purchase a new headquarters at Sunrise City Commercial Area, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City.

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With its achievements in recent times, VCB Nam Sai Gon has been honored to receive the following outstanding awards:

- 2005:

+ Certificate of Merit from Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee for units with positive contributions to Export Processing Zones and Industrial Parks.

+ Certificate of merit from the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam for the collective with outstanding achievements contributing to the completion of banking tasks.

+ Certificate of Merit for Excellent Labor Collective awarded by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NHNT.

- 2006:

+ Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.


+ Certificate of merit from the General Director of the National Bank for the leading branch in credit quality of the National Bank system.

+ Certificate of Merit for Excellent Labor Collective awarded by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NHNT.

- 2007:

+ Third Class Labor Medal awarded by the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

+ Emulation flag of the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam

+ Certificate of Merit for Excellent Labor Collective awarded by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NHNT.

- 2008:

+ Emulation flag awarded by the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

+ Emulation flag of the General Director of NHNT for the leading unit in Capital Mobilization.

+ Certificate of Merit for Excellent Labor Collective awarded by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NHNT.

- 2009:

+ Emulation flag of the General Director of NHNT for the leading unit in Capital Mobilization.

+ Certificate of Merit for Excellent Labor Collective awarded by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NHNT. Orientation, tasks and plans of VCB Nam Sai Gon in the coming time:

+ Make capital mobilization the core and top priority task to expand and increase the scale of operations, including expanding and diversifying customers with deposit relationships through appropriate preferential policies for each period. Special attention is paid to capital mobilization from the population, which is the most stable source of mobilization.

+ Improve risk management, expand retail banking services, develop lending to small and medium enterprises, individual lending, and secured lending to improve capital structure and capital use towards increasing stability and risk dispersion. Expand the credit market for enterprises in industrial parks, export processing zones, and foreign-invested enterprises.

+ Enhance the position of NHNT in the field of project financing, strengthen the role as a focal bank in arranging finance for large, feasible and effective projects.

+ Focus on handling bad debt, propose measures to handle bad debt effectively, improve the branch's credit quality to be sustainable and safe.

+ Actively implement the set of standards issued by the State Bank.


+ Developing branch network, planning to open 02 more transaction offices.

+ Closely follow the direction and guidance of the Head Office, perform well and complete the planning targets assigned by the Head Office.

2.2.2 Business performance in recent times

2.2.2.1 Capital mobilization

Capital mobilization is extremely important in banking operations, ensuring liquidity, creating competitive advantages for banks in terms of capital costs, as well as affecting other operations. To expand credit, it is necessary to increase capital mobilization, the capital mobilization structure determines the credit structure.

In recent years, VCB Nam Sai Gon has always made efforts and applied many synchronous solutions to increase capital mobilization - considered the top priority task:

- Expand the network of transaction offices and ATM network, increase the issuance of ATM cards, provide treasury services such as salary payment via envelopes, accounts, collection, and home delivery.

- Improve service quality in both domestic and international payments, teller services, treasury, money transfer... Provide more convenient services for customers such as querying information about customer accounts by phone, via the Internet, payment via VCB - money...

- Expanding many forms of capital mobilization such as flexible term savings, non-term savings, term bonuses... Using automatic investment accounts for businesses, using flexible preferential interest rates for each subject...

Table 2.1: Capital mobilization situation in the period 2005-2009

Unit: billion VND


Year

Total capital

Total Mobilization

2005

1,830

1,701

2006

2,570

2,439

2007

3,064

2,388

2008

3,981

3,570

2009

5,499

4,886

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Introduction to Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam - South Saigon Branch

(Source: VCB Nam Sai Gon Business Performance Summary Report)


Billion VND

Chart 2.1: Capital mobilization situation in the period 2005-2009



Capital mobilization situation in the period 2005-2009


12000

10000 4. 8 86

3,570

8000

2,388

6000 2 .439 5.499

4000 1,701 3,981

3 .064

2000 1.830 2 .57 0

0

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009


Total capital mobilized

Year


In Ho Chi Minh City, there is strong competition in interest rates with attractive promotions from banks. Therefore, capital mobilization becomes more and more difficult, interest rate competition among commercial banks is very fierce and fluctuates continuously due to the following reasons:

- Payment deposits from economic organizations decreased because capital sources of companies often concentrate at the end of December of the previous year, causing deposit balances to increase but then transfer money in January of the following year.

- Mobilized capital is greatly affected by economic fluctuations. From the end of 2007 to the end of August 2008, many commercial banks fell into a difficult liquidity situation due to previously over-lending compared to capital sources. In the outstanding credit balance, capital mobilized from interbank accounts for a large proportion. The liquidity situation became more serious when the State Bank implemented a tightening policy, the VND shortage in the market forced commercial banks to mobilize at all costs with the highest possible interest rates. Initially, they still accepted high-interest loans from other credit institutions (mainly state-owned commercial banks), but when the interbank market "closed", commercial banks pushed up overnight, weekly, 1-month interest rates, and short-term interest rates from customers to replace them. They always targeted customers of commercial banks, where there were payment deposits from large economic organizations. The residential customer base of VCB Nam Sai Gon was also attracted by the 19 - 20% interest rate of commercial banks. There was not much money left in the economy, so the movement of money from one bank to another was a common phenomenon during this period. Interest rate policy and


The capital mobilization of the branch during this period was very flexible, the initial capital mobilization growth plan was replaced by measures to minimize the movement of capital sources, not to be drawn into the interest rate race but also to be very flexible when negotiating interest rates with customers. In early 2009, the domestic currency market situation was quite stable (the State Bank reduced the basic interest rate from 8.5%/year to 7%/year and this interest rate was applied from February 2009 to November 2009), VND mobilization of commercial banks was quite even and at a suitable level. However, at the end of the year, capital mobilization interest rates were adjusted to an upward trend. In which, VND mobilization interest rates continuously increased in the months near the end of the year; Especially in October 2009 and early November 2009, VND mobilization interest rates increased by 0.2% - 0.99%/year compared to September 2009. At the end of 2009, the highest VND mobilization interest rate was 10.49%/year; along with the basic interest rate increasing from 7%/year to 8%/year. Commercial banks competed fiercely in mobilizing capital in the last months of the year to ensure liquidity safety.

Table 2.2: Structure and capital mobilization situation

Unit: billion VND


Target

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Total mobilized capital

1,830

2,570

3,064

3,981

5,499

Amount of money mobilized at the Branch

1,701

2,439

2,388

3,570

4,886

Mobilization rate at Branch

93%

95%

78%

90%

89%

Amount raised from Head Office

130

131

676

411

613

Mobilization rate from Head Office

7%

5%

22%

10%

11%

Amount raised VND

1,203

1,752

2,376

3,000

3,948

VND mobilization rate

66%

68%

78%

75%

72%

Amount raised USD

627

818

688

981

1,551

USD mobilization rate

34%

32%

22%

25%

28%

Personal fundraising amount

638

1,086

1,528

2,323

2,966

Personal mobilization rate

38%

45%

64%

65%

61%

Amount of money raised by the organization

1,063

1,353

861

1,247

1,920

Organizational mobilization rate

62%

55%

36%

35%

39%

(Source: VCB Nam Sai Gon Business Performance Summary Report)


Mobilization rate at branches and Head Office

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Mobilization rate at Branch Mobilization rate from HSC

Chart 2.2: Mobilization rate at branches and Head Office


2009

89%

11%

2008

90%

10%

2007

78%

22%

2006

95%

5%

2005

93%

7%


VND & USD mobilization rate

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

VND mobilization rate

USD mobilization rate

Chart 2.3: VND &VND mobilization rate


2009


72%

28%

2008


75%

25%

2007


78%

22%

2006


68%

32%

2005


66%

34%


Chart 2.4: Rate of individual and organizational mobilization



Individual & Organizational Funding Rate

2009

61%

39%

2008

65%

35%

2007

64%

36%

2006

45%

55%

2005

38%

62%

0%

20%

40%

Personal mobilization rate

60%

80%

100%

Organizational mobilization rate


Table 2.3: Structure and capital mobilization situation

Unit: billion VND


Target

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

1. From customers

1,701

2,439

2,388

3,570

4,886

a.No term

860

1.155

1.110

1.123

1,391

b. Term

841

1,284

1,278

2,447

3,495

< 12 months

670

1,035

851

1,800

2,681

> 12 months

171

249

427

647

814

2. From Credit Institutions

0

0

0

0

0

3. Head Office Loan

130

131

676

411

613

Short term


0

270

120.6

0

Medium and long term

130

131

406

411

613

Ratio of mobilized capital/Total capital

93%

95%

78%

90%

89%

Total

1,830

2,570

3,064

3,981

5,499

(Source: VCB Nam Sai Gon Business Performance Summary Report)

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