State Bank of Vietnam Governor urges lifelong learning and early cadre training while highlighting fintech and cross-border payment risks

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) reported that Governor Nguyen Thi Hong met participants in the Department-level Planning Officer Training Course, sharing the SBV’s long-term strategic orientation and outlining new requirements for banking-sector managers. The Governor framed continuous learning as a public responsibility for leaders and linked cadre training to the banking industry’s ability to operate effectively in a volatile global environment. Training was positioned to start early in personnel planning, including from the division level, so officers take on roles with a solid knowledge base, alongside learning from practice and peer experience-sharing. The SBV’s Department of Organization and Personnel has developed a training project for leadership and management sources covering two groups: incumbent and department-level planning officers, and officers holding or planned for division-level roles, with course themes built from surveys of unit learning needs. On policy and risk focus areas, the Governor underscored inflation control and the operation of prudent and flexible monetary policy in an open economy, and called for identifying risks from global trends including financial technology, green transformation and cross-border payments, supported by response scenarios and stronger internal audit and supervision to safeguard the system. The SBV described the most recent course format, including direct participation by SBV leadership in teaching, as a model intended to be continued in support of building higher-quality managers.