The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) held its Region 6 conference on implementing 2026 banking tasks, where Governor Nguyen Thi Hong set priorities for the regional branch and credit institutions to support local socio-economic goals while maintaining monetary and banking system stability. The main operational direction is to ensure capital availability and steer credit toward production and business, priority sectors, national target programmes and new growth drivers such as digital and green transformation, while strictly controlling lending to potentially risky sectors. Implementation priorities include expanding non-cash payments and digital transformation alongside stronger system security, safety and information confidentiality, safeguarding treasury operations and meeting cash demand, and advancing administrative procedure reform including end-to-end online public services. The agenda also covers strengthened inspection and supervision, closer monitoring of banking activity in the area, and coordination with local authorities through bank–business–people connectivity meetings, as well as continued organisational consolidation and policy communications. The SBV highlighted Region 6’s 2025 performance as the third-largest area nationally by capital mobilisation and credit, with credit growth of 20.28% versus 19.01% for the banking system overall and a low bad debt ratio, over 88% electronic state budget revenue collection by 31 December 2025, and 75 bank-customer conferences through the fourth quarter that supported 1,155 businesses and 28 other borrowers via new loans, rescheduled repayments, and interest and fee reductions. Credit institutions were instructed to align execution with directions from the Government, the Prime Minister and the SBV, including the Governor’s Directive No. 01, which the SBV said will be issued soon.

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