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The Government has recently issued Decree 116/2015 which includes certain amendments to Decree 59/2011 and Decree 189/2013 on equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Decree 116/2015 took effect immediately upon signing on 11 November 2015. This shows certain urgency in the restructuring of SOEs in Vietnam. Decree 116/2015 covers the following:
After months of delay, the long-awaited Decree 118/2015 implementing the Investment Law 2014 was finally issued on 12 November 2015. Set out below are certain important points of Decree 118/2015:
The table below sets out the key regulatory steps for an institutional foreign investor (the Investor) to subscribe for new shares of a Vietnam listed commercial bank (the Bank) under a private placement. This assumes that the Investor will subscribe for from 5% to 20% of the Bank’s capital. The table below does not include such usual approvals as trading code or disclosures by the Bank or the Investor under securities regulations.
The table below tries to compare the existing commitments of Vietnam under WTO Agreement with the commitments under TPP for financial services. This post is contributed by Tran Thi Thu Thao, a VILAF associate. Pdf version of the table can be downloaded here.
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