Announcement of Treasury Bill auction at SBV

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Operations Center has been assigned to coordinate with the Government Bond Auction Committee under SBV to conduct Treasury bill auctions from January 15, 2009 in accordance with the issuing schedule in 2009.

Following is the description of these auctions:

- Forms of issuing: Book entry

- Forms of bidding: Interest rate competition

- Auction time, bill maturity, and offering amount will be announced for each auction.

- Credit institutions will submit their bidding applications through the AFD network.

SBV and the Government Bond Auction Committee hereby wish to draw attention of those credit institutions as members of the money market to this announcement for their possible participation.

Thu Huong

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