Banks accelerate capital increases with billions of new shares
Vietnamese banks are accelerating charter-capital increases via bonus shares, stock dividends and rights issues. BIDV plans a 498.2m-share bonus issuance (record Aug 18) and a 4.5% cash dividend (Aug 20). Vietcombank and VietinBank also plan 4.5% cash dividends in late August. Other lenders including MBBank, HDBank, TPBank, VIB, Maritime Bank, VietABank and Vietbank outline additional share issuances and a Vietbank rights offer.



