The State Bank of Vietnam has publicised the launch of a nationwide financial education programme for school students, following a cooperation agreement between Banking Times and FPT Group to implement Vietnam’s first online financial education “playground” for pupils. The initiative is positioned as part of efforts to advance financial education under the National Financial Inclusion Strategy to 2025 with an orientation to 2030, for which the central bank has a government-assigned overall coordination role. Under the agreement, Banking Times and FPT will co-organise the “Tài chính thông minh” (Smart Finance) programme to build personal finance knowledge and skills for students in grades 1 to 12, including budgeting, saving, and basic investment planning. The competition is scheduled to run from 30 June 2025 to 31 December 2025 and will include three main stages, combining online rounds with an offline national final in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, alongside provincial talkshows and gameshows. The organisers set a short-term target of reaching 5 million students across all 63 provinces and cities, with longer-term ambitions of scaling to 22 million students and expanding to ASEAN, and they stated that participation would be free for students and parents. Banking Times also indicated it plans to launch an artificial intelligence tool on financial inclusion within two months.

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