Vietnam

News

Markets React to New Tariffs

Any glimpse of hope left for the stock markets before U.S. President Trump’s announcement of new tariffs has vanished as the scale of the unveiled tariff plans took investors by surprise.

Finance & Economics

Vietnam Seeks to Blunt US Tariffs With Tax Cuts on Imports

Vietnam has decided to slash import levies on a range of products, including liquefied natural gas and automobiles, as part of the implementation of measures related to the desire to minimize the negative effects of the tightening tariff policy of the United States.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Tyme Becomes Unicorn After $250M Funding Round Led by Nubank

Singapore-based digital banking group Tyme has successfully raised $250 million, bringing the business a ‘unicorn’ status.

News

IFC Boosts Climate Financing in Vietnam to Propel Green Transition

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has scaled up its climate financing in Vietnam, to strengthen private sector resilience and green economic growth.

Countries

UnionPay debuts virtual cards in Vietnam

That’s the first massive rollout of UnionPay virtual cards in the country

News

Vietnam Expands Chip Packaging Footprint

Currently, there is a tendency in Vietnam, in which foreign companies are expand their chip testing and packaging capacities in this country, and homegrown firms are eyeing investments.

Science & Technology

Samsung Plans to Invest $1.8 Billion More in Vietnam

South Korea’s Samsung Display Co. intends to invest $1.8 billion in a project to build a factory in the northern part of Vietnam.

Science & Technology

Foxconn to Invest $551 Million in Vietnam

Foxconn, Apple’s Taiwan-based supplier, plans to invest about $551 million in two new projects in Vietnam’s northern coastal province of Quang Ninh.

News

High Tech Firm VDL to Build Plant in Vietnam

Dutch high-tech company VDL on Wednesday, March 20, announced its intention to build a new factory for the production of components for making chips in Vietnam.

Science & Technology

Nvidia Reportedly Sees Vietnam as Potential Second Home

The Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia Corp. Jensen Huang considers Vietnam as a potential second home for the company he heads and plans to open a legal entity in the Southeast Asian country.

News

Mastercard and CARE Launch Strive Women for Female Entrepreneurs

Mastercard Strive Women aims to strengthen the financial well-being of small businesses in the APEC economies, focusing on female-led enterprises.

Science & Technology

Net Zero Challenge Launches in Vietnam

Touchstone Partners and Temasek Foundation have launched a climate technology innovations competition for startups in Vietnam

News

Fintech Funding Plummets in Canada and Vietnam

These two countries have shown enormous levels of fintech funding decline in the first half of 2023

News

Neutronpay and Bitnob to Improve Cross-Border Payments Between Asia and Africa

The partnership aims to use the potential of both companies for creating new routes and payment options for bilateral cross-border trade between Vietnam and Africa using the Lightning Network

News

Vietnamese Solar Cleantech Startup Stride Raises $2M

The solar cleantech startup backed by Clime Capital and Touchstone Partners has a mission to accelerate Vietnam’s low-carbon transition

News

Apple Online Store in Vietnam Gets Instalment Payments from MoMo

The tech giant Apple opened its online store in Vietnam, offering up to 24 months of financing with a local fintech MoMo