VietNamNet Bridge - Mergers between securities have become stronger as it is the only choice for small securities companies. It is expected that at least three merger & acquisition (M&A) deals will wrap up this year.

The Prime Minister has ratified Decree 60/2015 to replace Decree 58, which included a long-awaited regulation on removing limits on foreign ownership in listed companies.

 The State Securities Commission (SSC) and the German Federal Enterprises for International Co-operation, better known as GIZ, will collaborate to develop a green capital market.

HCM City, considered a financial center of Vietnam, could lose its stock market in the future because the watchdog agency plans to merge the Hanoi and HCM City stock exchanges into one Vietnam Stock Exchange headquartered in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The State Securities Commission (SSC) is revising Decree 58/2012 guiding the Securities Law to increase the foreign ownership limit at listed enterprises,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of securities companies in Viet Nam reduced by more than 20 per cent in 2014, announced the State Securities Commission of Viet Nam (SSC).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's stock market raised VND127 trillion or US$6 billion in the first six months of this year, up 3 per cent year over year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The State Securities Commission on May 8 affirmed that the trading bands on the two local stocks exchanges remain unchanged, denying rumors that the commission would revise the bands down to arrest further steep declines

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Commission of Securities (SSC) is expected to submit a plan to the government to merge the two bourses into a single entity: the Viet Nam Stock Exchange.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Administering agencies are speeding up legal and technical preparations for the birth of the first exchange traded funds (ETFs) in Vietnam in the third quarter of this year,

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Securities Commission has submitted to the government the plan on raising the ceiling foreign ownership ratio, which aims to encourage the transactions on the stock market.

A lot of businesses have been forced to delist because they did not expose information.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance has finished fielding suggestions for the draft decree on foreign ownership limit in listed enterprises and will submit it to the Government soon,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Securities Commission (SSC) has placed nine securities firms under special surveillance, and five others under scrutiny.

VietNamNet Bridge – The two national stock exchanges plan to extend trading hours in the afternoon session in a bid to help boost liquidity and lure investors, but the proposal however is drawing differing opinions from market participants.

There is a growing tendency of companies quitting the stock market to escape the “big sharks” who try to swallow them. Many others disapprove of listing shares on the bourse for the bear of being taken over one day.

A new wave of big investors withdrawing capital from securities companies has been noted. Securities companies turn out to be not the geese that lay golden eggs as they previously thought.

Suspending the operation of securities companies is the heaviest handed punishment imposed on unprofitable companies. However, the punishment does not have much significance.

Only a few of the 50 existing investment fund management companies has been performing well, while others cannot raise funds to manage.