No pre-funding required for foreign institutional investors to buy Vietnamese stocks
Foreign institutional investors are allowed to buy Vietnamese stocks without having enough money at the time of purchase from November 2 under Circular No.68/2024/TT-BTC recently issued by the Ministry of Finance.
Foreign investors have net sold Vietnamese shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange with a value of more than 65 trillion VND (2.6 billion USD) from the outset of the year. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Foreign institutional investors are allowed to buy Vietnamese stocks without having enough money at the time of purchase from November 2 under Circular No.68/2024/TT-BTC recently issued by the Ministry of Finance.
Accordingly, securities firms must evaluate the foreign institutional investors’ payment risks to determine the amount of money required when they place stock purchase orders under the agreement between the two parties.
If the investors fail to make full payment for their stock purchase transactions, the payment obligation for the shortfall will be transferred to the securities companies where investors place their orders.
According to the latest report from the SSI Securities Corporation, a leading broker in Vietnam, this is a bold step for the Vietnamese stock market to meet requirements of FTSE Russel to be upgraded from frontier to emerging status. With the elevation, the market could attract up to 1.7 billion USD from exchange traded funds (ETF), while capital inflows from active funds could be fivefold higher than those of the ETF.
🦄 Besides, the decision is expected to become a catalyst to reverse foreign capital flows in the Vietnamese stock market. Foreign investors have net sold Vietnamese shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange with a value of more than 65 trillion VND (2.6 billion USD) from the outset of the year./.
The Vietnam Stock Exchange (VNX) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) on August 5 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on boosting their communication channels to promote their relations and serve the interests of the Vietnamese and Singaporean stock markets.
Leading investment fund VinaCapital remains confident in the Vietnamese stock market in the last months of this year despite foreign investors’ heavy net selling.
Foreign investors have been strongly net selling on the domestic stock market, focusing on many blue-chip stocks, putting pressure on the market's sentiment. However, this net selling and capital withdrawal by foreign investors is not yet a worrying trend.
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