Disbursement of Interest rate support program reaches VND 144,312 billion by March 13

According to the express reports of credit institutions, the disbursement amount of the interest rate support program of the whole banking industry by March 13, 2009 reached around VND 144,312 billion (an increase by 26.9% in comparison with the previous week). Specifically, the group of state-owned commercial banks and the Central People’s Credit Fund have disbursed VND 114,537 billion (an increase by 28%); and the group of joint-stock commercial banks, and the group of joint-venture banks, foreign banks branches and wholly-owned foreign banks have allocated about VND 26,837 billion (an increase by 18.7%), and VND 2,938 billion (an increase by 76%) for this program, respectively.

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