According to Mr. Dau Anh Tuan, Deputy General Secretary of VCCI, it is necessary to open the credit valve for businesses with good cash flow - Photo: QUANG DINH
Seminar "Promoting the role of commercial banks in implementing Resolution 68" organized by the Government Electronic Information Portal on June 27.
Credit logistics is one of the biggest challenges facing the private sector .
Speaking at the seminar, Dr. Dau Anh Tuan, Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), said that access to credit is one of the top difficulties for Vietnamese private enterprises.
Over the past 20 years, when VCCI conducted surveys to see what problems businesses face the most, the answer was that difficulty in accessing capital was always the top difficulty, along with administrative procedures and land issues.
"For businesses, the role of credit is like gasoline for gasoline-powered cars. Without gasoline, the car cannot run. But if the price of gasoline is too high, it is clear that running a car will be uneconomical and ineffective.
"A car cannot go far without a full tank of gas. Businesses are the same, without enough capital they will face many difficulties" - Mr. Tuan compared and said that policies to ensure capital supply for the economy are very important, especially for private enterprises.
As for the field of supporting industry development, many businesses say that it is not that Vietnamese businesses are not capable or do not have enough technological level to develop supporting industries.
However, our disadvantage is capital. If Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese (Chinese) enterprises,... can access low-cost, cheap, long-term capital sources with interest rates of only 2-3%/year, Vietnamese enterprises can borrow from banks with high interest rates.
So long-term investment is not economically feasible and ineffective.
Resolution 68 encourages lending not only based on collateral
With the hope that interest rates will continue to be stable from 2024, Mr. Tuan further proposed that capital should be directed to activities that create the most advantages, competitiveness and best social effects.
Capital should be unblocked and promoted, encouraged to flow into the production sector, where specific goods and services are created, where jobs are created for many workers, where many social security problems are solved.
So the industries we have strengths in, for example in agriculture, are not only businesses but also many farmers.
In Resolution 68 on private economic development, Mr. Tuan raised an important content that is to encourage lending not only based on collateral, but to shift to lending based on cash flow.
However, to do this, it is necessary to remove barriers in the legal system. Currently, from decrees to circulars, there are still regulations that hinder commercial banks when applying cash flow lending.
Therefore, the authorities should soon review and eliminate these inappropriate regulations to create conditions for credit activities to operate more safely and effectively.
"It is also important to recognize that cash flow lending always carries risks, and in the event of a risk occurring, the bank may be held accountable. Therefore, accepting risks in business operations is necessary, as long as those risks are well managed by removing unnecessary legal barriers.
Instead of only lending to secured assets, banks need to be facilitated to extend credit to businesses with good cash flow, a clear history of legal compliance, and are assessed as having potential - even without collateral," Mr. Tuan recommended.
Outstanding credit balance reached 16.73 million billion VND, up 7.14%
At the seminar, Mr. Nguyen Phi Lan, Director of the Department of Forecasting Statistics - Monetary and Financial Stability (State Bank), said that the credit growth of the whole system, as of June 18, reached 16.73 million billion VND, an increase of 7.14% compared to the end of 2024.
Outstanding loans to the private sector account for 93%, equivalent to VND15.3 trillion. About 209,000 small and medium enterprises have outstanding loans.
"These figures show that credit capital has spread to all fields, industries and economic sectors, including the private economy. At the same time, in recent times, the banking industry has accompanied private enterprises by restructuring debt repayment periods, waiving interest rates, and supporting recovery when natural disasters occur," said Mr. Lan.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/can-mo-van-tin-dung-cho-doanh-nghiep-co-luong-tien-tot-20250627122152367.htm
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