State-run Debts Trading Co. Opens HCM City Branch

3:26:22 PM | 7/8/2005

State-run Debts Trading Co. Opens HCM City Branch

 

The Debts & Assets Trading Co. (DATC), which was set up under the Ministry of Finance in early February with the task of improving the financial situation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Vietnam, on October 25 launched a branch in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s economic hub.

The branch will trade in non-recoverable and bad debts and unused assets of SOEs to assist their financial restructuring. As a result, the company will help the government to handle bad debts and make SOEs operate more effectively and speed up the privatization of SOEs, which is proceeding too slowly at present.

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