VOV.VN - Vietnam desires to increase cooperation with Germany’s Hessen state, especially in financial market development, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh told Alexander Lorz, Minister of Finance of the State of Hessen, Germany, during a meeting on March 25.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh encouraged German businesses to study and invest in international financial centres that are to take shape in the future in Vietnam, during a roundtable in Frankfurt on March 24.

VOV.VN - Leaders of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC), a non-profit financial association, and German businesses have said they are ready to engage in building international financial centres in Vietnam.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh has expressed Vietnam's wish for collaboration with Luxembourg in the development of financial centres in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang city while paying a working visit to the Grand Duchy from March 20 to 22.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has climbed seven notches to 98th out of 119 cities in the annual Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) published by the China Development Institute (CDI) in China and Z/Yen Partners in UK.

Da Nang has paid special attention to recommendations regarding resources, mechanisms, human resources training, governance and operation and system security for international financial centres as outlined by British partners during Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh’s working trip to the UK from March 16-20.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches importance to enhancing its strategic partnership with the UK and supports the UK’s increased cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said during a meeting with his British counterpart Angela Rayner in London on March 18.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh on March 18 visited the London Stock Exchange and held a working session with Julia Holgate, CEO of the London Stock Exchange.

Vietnam has the foundation and potential to successfully build an international financial centre, according to Associate Professor Nguyen Dang Bang, a finance expert at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School.

Vietnam does not need to choose between a specialised or a comprehensive regional financial centre but can instead adopt a flexible approach to seize opportunities, said Dr. Ho Quoc Tuan, Senior Lecturer in Finance and Accounting at the UK’s University of Bristol.