THE
STATE BANK
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
42/2003/QD-NHNN
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Hanoi
, January 13, 2003
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DECISION
ON
THE PROGRAM OF ACTION FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN THE BANKING
DOMAIN
THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK
Pursuant to the State Bank
Law of December 12, 1997;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 86/2002/ND-CP of November 5, 2002
prescribing the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the
ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 37/2002/QD-TTg of March 14, 2002
on the Government’s program of action for implementation of the Politburo’s
Resolution No. 07-NQ/TW on international economic integration;
At the proposal of the director of the Department for International Relations,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To
issue together with this Decision the program of action for international
economic integration in the banking domain.
Article 2.- This
Decision takes effect after its signing.
Article 3.- The
Office’s director, the heads of the State Bank’s concerned units, the director
of the Banking Institute and the directors of the State Bank’s
provincial/municipal branches shall have to implement this Decision.
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STATE
BANK GOVERNOR
Le Duc Thuy
PROGRAM OF ACTION
FOR
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN THE BANKING DOMAIN
(Issued together with the State Bank Governor’s Decision No. 42/2003/QD-NHNN
of January 13, 2003)
In order to gain initiative in
the integration process, in the spirit of the Politburo’s Resolution No.
07-NQ/TW on international economic integration, Vietnam should build a banking
system, which is diversified in forms, prestigious among customers and
competitive, operates efficiently and safely, has the capability to better
mobilize various capital sources in the society and to expand investment,
meeting the requirements of the national cause of industrialization and
modernization; step up the work of training a contingent of banking officials,
who are politically steadfast, proficient in banking operations and relevant
operations, make good use of informatic technological achievements, are fluent
in foreign languages, and have industrial working style and high sense of
discipline, thus contributing to raising the working efficiency in the banking
sector.
Regarding integration
activities, the State Bank (SB) has determined that its pivotal task is to well
exercise the function to represent the Vietnamese Government at international
financial-monetary organizations, make the fullest use of the assistance of
these organizations, develop bilateral cooperation relations, including the
implementation of the Vietnam - US Bilateral Trade Agreement, with special
attention paid to international and regional integration in such multilateral
economic organizations as ASEAN, APEC, WTO,...
The banking sector’s program of
action aims to implement the Government’s program of action for the
implementation of Resolution No. 07 on international economic integration and
includes the following 7 principal contents:
- Information and propagation
work;
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- Perfection of the general
strategy on international economic integration;
- Formulating financial-monetary
mechanisms and policies, and raising competitiveness;
- Negotiations for joining WTO;
- Human resource training;
- Expansion of markets, winning
investment and technical assistance of other countries and international
organizations.
I. INFORMATION AND PROPAGATION
WORK
To organize propagation and
popularization of the Party’s and State’s undertakings and policies as well as
information and knowledge on international economic integration in the State
Bank in particular and the banking system in general, incorporate these
contents into the Banking Institute’s teaching curricula, organize workshops,
and through such mass media as the Banking Times,..., create an adequate and
uniform perception in the sector and the society as well.
II. LAW ELABORATION,
AMENDMENT AND SUPPLEMENTATION (2003-2006)
The central task of the banking
sector in the work of integration in the coming years is to continue
implementing the Vietnam-US Bilateral Trade Agreement and prepare for
negotiations for joining WTO.
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- To enhance legal framework for
credit institutions (CIs)’ activities, establish a system for evaluating and
classifying CIs according to international standards, ensuring that Vietnam can
fully participate in international and regional economic organizations in the
finance and banking domain.
- To build a foreign exchange
management mechanism along the direction of liberalizing current transactions,
and selectively controlling capital account transactions. To build a system of
measures to control international capital flow, especially short-term capital,
control foreign loans, and control and minimize the use of foreign currencies on
the Vietnamese territory.
III. PERFECTION OF THE
GENERAL STRATEGY ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION (2003)
To work out a general strategy
on international integration, clearly and specifically determining the
integration roadmap and the extent of commitment to each type of international
economic organizations in order to orientate the whole process of international
economic integration of the banking sector. On the basis of that strategy, to
draw up a plan on raising the competitiveness of Vietnam’s system of CIs on
domestic and international market.
IV. BUILDING
FINANCIAL-MONETARY MECHANISMS AND POLICIES, AND RAISING COMPETITIVENESS
To continue renovating and
making healthy the system of CIs in order to stabilize currencies, control
inflation, support economic development, and create favorable conditions for
CIs to participate in international integration.
1. For the State Bank
(2003-2005)
- To renovate monetary policies
along the direction of applying indirect policy tools, and perfect the open
market;
- To perfect the mechanism for
administering interest rates of domestic and foreign currencies along the
direction of liberalization with efficient and indirect regulation by the
State;
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- To build an early-warning
system;
- To restructure the system of
inspection and supervision of CIs;
- To program the Internet
integration in order to update financial and monetary information.
2. For the system of CIs
(2003-2005)
To consolidate and restructure
CIs in order to make healthy the financial and banking system and meet the national
industrialization and modernization requirements; to raise the competitiveness
in financial capability, technological level and managerial capability so as to
actively participate in the international economic integration. To restructure
and expand financial services in terms of both types and quality along the
direction of basing on market supply and demand so that CIs can be more
autonomous in making business decisions, take self-responsibility, seek
customers themselves and raise operation efficiency, be competitive in the
country, the region and the world.
a/ For State-run commercial
banks (SCBs)
- To make healthy the SCBs’
finance on the basis of restructuring loans, making asset balance sheets clean,
applying measures to prevent the arising of new bad debts; to take measures to
settle inefficient investment and loan debts;
- To separate policy credit
activities from SCBs and transfer this task to the Bank for Social Policies;
- To perfect the lending process,
procedures and conditions to suit various economic sectors, attaching
importance to medium- and long-term loans compatible with projects’ cycles;
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- To train and retrain a
contingent of managerial officials and employees of SCBs.
b/ For joint-stock commercial
banks (JSCBs)
To set the requirement of
restructuring organization and management standards for JSCBs, to create
conditions for them to modernize their technologies, to organize training for
raising the managerial capability, and to efficiently participate in secondary
monetary market as well as the State Bank’s capital re-allocation operations
and payment system, concretely as follows:
- To restructure the system of
JSCBs; to dissolve or merge a number of weak and inefficient JSCBs;
- To make healthy the JSCBs’
finance on the basis of restructuring overdue debts;
- To organizationally
restructure, especially sections managing risks as well as assets and
liabilities, supervising and conducting internal audit and/or managing capital
and investment.
V. NEGOTIATIONS FOR JOINING
WTO
On the basis of the banking
sector’s general strategy on international economic integration, to build plans
for negotiations in the field of finance and banking services in preparation
for negotiations for joining WTO, with the set objective for 2005.
VI. HUMAN RESOURCE TRAINING
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VII. EXPANSION OF MARKETS,
WINNING INVESTMENT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
To continue strengthening and
developing cooperation relations with such international finance-monetary
organizations as the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the World Bank (WB);
the Asian Development Bank (ADB); the European Investment Bank; the North
European Investment Bank; the OPEC Fund; and the KUWAIT Fund; to coordinate
with the concerned ministries and branches in focusing on the fulfillment of
the commitments with the IMF, WB and ADB in order to step up the tempo of
implementation of the signed projects, making full use of capital sources for
the national cause of industrialization and modernization; to attach importance
to international and regional integration in such multilateral economic
organizations as the ASEAN, APEC, WTO,... and bilateral cooperation
organizations such as the French Central Bank, the French Cooperation and
Development Promotion Agency (PROPARCO), the Japan Bank for International
Cooperation (JBIC), the American EXIMBANK, the Chinese People’s Bank, the Lao
Central Bank, the Cambodian Central Bank, the Cuban National Bank, the
Malaysian Central Bank, the Central Bank of Iran, Luxembourg,...
And at the same time to win
technical assistance of international organizations and central banks of other
countries in research and collection of information and their experiences in
international integration such as in negotiations for joining WTO,... and in
the process of perfecting the system of legal documents in order to strengthen
and develop Vietnam’s system of credit institutions.
IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION
In order to implement this
program of action, the departments and units listed below shall have to build
their own specific plans of action for implementation of the assigned tasks.
These plans of action should be completed and submitted to the State Bank
Governor for approval before February 28, 2003.
1. Information and propagation
work:
- The Banking Institute shall
plan to incorporate the introduction of the world and regional economic,
financial and banking organizations such as WTO, ASEAN, APEC, ASEM, EU, IMF,
WB, ADB,... into its extra-curricula programs.
- The State Bank’s Office shall
act as the main body and coordinate with the concerned units in devising plans
on organization of workshops and propagation of integration for officials of
the State Bank and commercial banks.
- The Banking Times shall devise
plans on integration propagation through press and other mass media.
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2. Law elaboration, amendment
and supplementation:
The Legal Department shall
assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body and coordinate with the
concerned units in revising legal documents and regulations and proposing
amendments and/or supplements thereto.
3. Perfection of the general
strategy on international economic integration:
The Department for Bank
Development Strategies shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main
body and coordinate with the concerned units in the implementation thereof.
4. Building financial and
monetary mechanisms and policies, and raising competitiveness:
- The Monetary Policies
Department shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body and
coordinate with the concerned units in organizing the implementation of the
contents related to monetary policies.
- The Department for Banks shall
assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body and coordinate with the
concerned units in organizing the implementation of the contents related to
commercial banks.
- The Department for Foreign
Exchange Management shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body
and coordinate with the concerned units in organizing the implementation of the
contents related to foreign exchange.
- The State Bank’s Inspectorate
shall act as the main body and coordinate with the concerned units in
organizing the implementation of the contents related to inspection and
supervision such as the restructure of the bank inspection and supervision
system; and building an early-warning system.
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5. Human resource training:
The Department for Organization,
Personnel and Training shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main
body and coordinate with the Banking Institute and concerned units in the
implementation thereof.
6. Negotiations on admission to
WTO:
The Department for International
Relations shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body and
coordinate with the concerned units in the implementation thereof.
7. Expansion of markets, and
winning investment and technical assistance of other countries and
international organizations:
The Department for International
Relations shall assume the prime responsibility, act as the main body and
coordinate with the concerned units in the implementation thereof.