Banking-Finance & Insurance Expo 2008 closed

The 5th Banking-Finance & Insurance Exhibition known as Banking-Finance & Insurance Expo 2008 which was jointly organized by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the  Bac Ha Exhibition & Fair Company (BAK) at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi was closed on  November 2nd, 2008.

More than 40 entities, including commercial banks, leading finance, insurance and real estate companies and others exhibited their products and services at 80  pavilions which gave visitors a panorama of the Vietnamese system of credit, finance, insurance and real estate institutions.  Several seminars and workshops were also held to discuss the topics of  lending mechanism of credit institutions and finance companies, lending rates, collateralization, creditworthiness, secured capital and so on and so forth,.

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