The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) held a ceremony to launch the Bank Directors Training Project funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland (SECO) in Hanoi on June 19.
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Attending the launching ceremony were Mr. Andrej Motyl, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federation of Switzerland to Vietnam; SBV Deputy Governor Nguyen Kim Anh; representatives from the SECO, Swiss Finance Institute, several SBV entities, commercial banks and project participants.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy Governor Nguyen Kim Anh expressed his sincere thanks to the Swiss Government in general and the SECO Office in Vietnam in particular for actively supporting Vietnam socio–economic development as well as Vietnam’s banking sector. He cited that Switzerland has continuously and effectively support the innovation and development of Vietnam's banking sector through a variety of programs and projects of technical assistance and capacity enhancing ...
The Project has a number of improvements as follows: Firstly, the beneficiaries of the Project are all commercial banks in Vietnam, not only for the state-owned commercial banks as before. This reflects the increasingly important role of joint- stock commercial banks in Vietnam's banking sector and also ensures the wider impact of the Project on the entire banking system; Secondly, the addition of capacity enhancing component for the SBV, including the training for potential trainers and advisory activities to enhance the operational capacity of the Banking Training School. These activities will contribute to enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of the Project; thereby, the SBV will formulate a team of the lecturers being capable of delivering similar courses for the banking sector in the future and the Banking Training School can be able to strengthen its capacity for better meeting the training requirements of the banking industry.
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