The State Bank of Vietnam published a readout of Deputy Governor Pham Thanh Ha’s working session with Banking Times, backing plans to overhaul its editorial products and digital capabilities and reinforcing its role as the central bank’s primary official channel for policy communications, including content management for the State Bank of Vietnam’s Electronic Information Portal. The plan includes refreshing print and online content and adding new sections such as financial education, the history of Vietnamese currency and consumer finance advice, expanding policy communications via social media channels, and building a database of macroeconomic and sector indicators to support data-driven journalism and provide updated economic and financial data. The central bank’s Information Technology Department was instructed to accelerate the tender package for a comprehensive upgrade of the Electronic Information Portal’s technology and interface towards a modern, multimedia portal, while Banking Times is to ensure timely, complete and accurate publication of information on the central bank’s management and policy framework. Banking Times also aims to improve the scientific ranking of Banking Journal and publish an English-language edition within three months, and to migrate all newspaper and journal content onto an app within two months, with two integrated AI assistants focused on specialist financial English learning and financial advice. The Deputy Governor indicated he would engage with the National Council of Professors and foreign credit institutions in Vietnam to support the journal initiative, and called for wider coordination across State Bank of Vietnam units and credit institutions on information sharing, training and support arrangements, including for the planned economic and financial data repository.

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