Disbursement of the interest rate support program to April 23, 2009

According to the express reports of credit institutions, the disbursement amount of the interest rate support program of the whole banking industry by April 23, 2009 reached around VND 254,900 billion (an increase by 7.63% in comparison with the previous week).

Specifically, the group of state-owned commercial banks and the Central People’s Credit Fund have disbursed VND 187,660 billion (an increase by 6.66%); and the group of joint-stock commercial banks, the group of joint-venture banks, foreign banks branches and wholly-owned foreign banks, and the group of financial companies have allocated about VND 55,245 billion (an increase by 9.79%), VND 11,042 billion (an increase by 9.37%), and VND 953 billion (an increase of 101.05%) for this program, respectively.

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