Banks release capital increase plans in ongoing GMS season

Apr 16th at 11:51
16-04-2022 11:51:42+07:00

Banks release capital increase plans in ongoing GMS season

Many banks have announced plans to increase capital strongly in the ongoing season of general meetings of shareholders (GMS) this year.

 

The capital increase plans mainly include paying dividends in shares, making private placement to foreign strategic investors or employee stock ownership plans (ESOP).

SeABank was the latest to announce plans to increase its charter capital from VND16.59 trillion to VND22.69 trillion in 2022. The bank’s capital increase, which is aimed to continually improve its financial capacity, supplement capital for business activities and achieve set growth goals, will come from issuing shares to pay dividends, ESOP and private placement.

Specifically, SeABank plans to issue 321.1 million ordinary shares with a par value of VND10,000 per share, of which 211.4 million shares (equivalent to 12.7 per cent) are to pay dividends in 2021 and 109.7 million shares (equal to a 6.6 per cent rate) are for existing shareholders.

For the ESOP, SeABank has expected to issue 59.4 million shares for employees.

In addition, SeABank might make a private placement of 228.7 million shares to foreign investors if necessary.

Recently, Military Bank (MB) said it would continue to implement the plan to increase charter capital by VND892.4 billion. Accordingly, the bank will issue 70 million shares for network operator Viettel Group and 19.24 million shares under the ESOP programme.

In addition, MB also plans to offer 65 million new shares in 2022-2023 at a put-through price that is not lower than the book value, according to the latest audited financial statements.

MB’s additional charter capital is expected to be nearly VND9.1 trillion, which will be used to supplement the bank’s investment and business capital.

Previously, early this month, the board of directors of ACB also submitted a plan to its shareholders to increase capital to more than VND33.7 trillion by issuing shares to pay dividends in 2021 at the rate of 25 per cent.

MSB has also submitted to the bank’s general meeting of shareholders to approve the dividend payment in shares at a rate of 30 per cent for 2021.

Meanwhile, the general meeting of shareholders of VIB approved the payment of dividends and bonus shares at the rate of 35 per cent besides an ESOP programme to raise the charter capital to VND21 trillion.

As for State-owned banks, at the upcoming general meeting of shareholders, Vietcombank will also submit a plan to increase its charter capital in 2022.

Earlier this year, the bank completed the issuance of more than 1.02 billion shares from the remaining profit source in 2019 to pay dividends, raising its charter capital to more than VND47.3 trillion.

After completing the dividend payment in shares at a rate of 25.7 per cent to increase its charter capital to VND50.58 trillion recently, BIDV has also planned to issue 341.5 million new shares, equivalent to 8.5 per cent of charter capital through a public offering or private placement.

Expert Tran Du Lich forecast the bank’s race to increase charter capital would continue strongly in 2022, explaining that as credit growth increases, the banks’ equity must also be raised at the same rate to help them maintain their growth momentum and meet the capital adequacy margin. 

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