Disbursement of the interest rate support program to April 3, 2009

SBV announces the disbursement of the interest rate support program to April 3, 2009 as follows:

According to the express reports of credit institutions, the disbursement amount of the interest rate support program of the whole banking industry by April 3, 2009 reached around VND 202,131billion (an increase by 13.09% in comparison with the previous week). Specifically, the group of state-owned commercial banks and the Central People’s Credit Fund have disbursed VND 151,010 billion (an increase by 13.02%); 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 42,141 billion (an increase by 13.08%), VND 8,633 billion (an increase by 14.20%), and VND 347 billion ( an increase of 17.22%) for this program, respectively.

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