Vietnam

The OPEC Fund for International Development has provided a $50 million loan to Vietnam's Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) to expand financing for small businesses and climate-focused investments across Vietnam.

Singapore-headquartered fintech M-DAQ Global has signed definitive agreements for a strategic integration with METech, the majority shareholder of PayME, a licensed payments service provider in Vietnam, giving M-DAQ its own regulated payments infrastructure in the country with direct access to Vietnamese dong collection and payout rails.

LG Innotek is set to kick off the construction of its $1 billion semiconductor substrate packaging plant in Vietnam's northern coastal city of Hai Phong, in the third quarter of 2026.

Samsung Electronics plans to invest $1 billion in new capital in Vietnam in 2026, after cumulative investment in the country reached $24 billion by end of 2025, CFO of Samsung Electronics Park Soon Cheol said to Vietnamese Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan at a meeting in Hanoi last week.

Net Zero Challenge, Vietnam’s largest climate technology innovation competition, has opened applications for its fourth edition, offering a total prize pool exceeding VND21 billion ($800,000), with applications open from July 1 to August 31, 2026.

Vietnam's National Payment Corporation (NAPAS), lender VietinBank, and Singapore-based fintech Liquid Group have launched a cross-border QR payment service between Vietnam and Singapore, allowing Singapore payment app users to scan VietQRGlobal codes at merchant locations across Vietnam without needing cash or currency exchange.

UOB Vietnam, under Singaporean lender UOB, has started construction of its UOB Plaza Ho Chi Minh City, a $450 million tower located within Vietnam's International Financial Center (VIFC), making UOB the first foreign financial institution to invest in headquarters within the VIFC-HCMC precinct.

Vietnam's G-Group Technology Corporation will build its G-Campus Hoa Lac, a high-tech center and Tier III data center complex specializing in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with total investment of VND7,600 billion ($300 million).

NVIDIA aims to develop its Vietnam Research and Development Center (VRDC) in Hanoi into a world-class AI engineering hub, contributing both to the company's global operations and to the innovation ecosystem in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Green and Smart Mobility (GSM), the ride-hailing service under the ecosystem of Vietnam’s conglomerate Vingroup,has more than doubled its charter capital from end-2025 to June 2026, according to its filings with the ministry-run national business registration portal.