Companies should apply international financial reporting standards (IFRS) to improve transparency and increase the chances to expand globally, experts have said.

More than 34 million e-wallets were active in Vietnam as of June 30, accounting for 59% of the total 58 million activated e-wallets.

VOV.VN - Five Vietnamese people have been arrested for getting involved in a transnational criminal gang with the virtually transacted amount of approximately USDT1.1 billion, said the police of Tay Ninh province in southern Vietnam, on August 2.

VOV.VN - Police operating in the southcentral coastal province of Phu Yen have co-operated with the Department of Cyber Security and Hi-tech Crime Prevention under the Ministry of Public Security and police forces of Quang Ngai province and Lam Dong province to smash a major online football betting ring worth VND1 trillion, equal to US$39.1 million.

Domestic individual investors hold more than 7.98 million accounts for securities trading as of the end of June, or 8% of Vietnam’s population, according to statistics supplied by the Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation.

The number of newly opened securities accounts in Vietnam saw a substantial increase last month, reversing the previous decline in April, according to the Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation.

VOV.VN - The HCM City Police Investigation Agency (PC01) said on April 27 that they have busted a major transnational money laundering ring, arresting 13 local people and foreign nationals.

Up to 77.41% of the adults in Vietnam have payment accounts at present, an increase from 31% during the 2015 - 2017 period, an official of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) cited a World Bank report as saying.

VOV.VN - “Thank you for the warm welcome, Vietnam. I know this will be a historic visit,” said United States President Joe Biden in a post uploaded to his Twitter account late on September 10.

Many people are still trapped by online scams despite warnings from authorised agencies.