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* Ho Chi Minh City’s Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control held a press conference to provide information on the pandemic situation in the city. Reportedly, from 6 p.m. on September 22 to 6 p.m. on September 23, the city took more than 1.1 million samples for COVID-19 testing. This was a new record in the city’s day-to-day sampling speed to rapidly detect infected cases in the community. In addition, the city has administered more than 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. So far, nearly 6.8 million people have received the first shot. * A delegation led by Secretary of the Binh Duong provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi visited and encouraged leaders and employees of businesses in the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park No.2 in Thu Dau Mot city. On the same day, the delegation toured and inquired after the doctors and medical staff in Phuong Chi General Hospital (Thu Dau Mot city) who are treating COVID-19 patients. * The People’s Committee of Tan Thanh …

Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Currently, more than 20 commercial banks are adopting the standard version of Basel II , of which 12 have completed all three Basel II pillars ahead the deadline, namely VIB, Vietcombank, SeABank, VPBank, TPBank, MSB, VietCapitalBank, Shinhan Vietnam, SHB , LienVietPost Bank, HDBank, and Viet Capital Bank. VIB is the first bank in Vietnam piloting a system measuring the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NFSR) – one of the Basel III indexes. (Photo: VietnamPlus) According to VIB general director Han Ngoc Vu, the bank has become the first in Vietnam piloting a system measuring the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NFSR) – one of the Basel III indexes. Basel III , a healthy and sustainably developing bank must have a NFSR higher than 100 percent, Vu said, the VIB’s was 120 percent at the end of October 2020, equivalent to Singapore’s DBS Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). VNA …

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