Constituting a healthy corporate bond market
Constituting a healthy corporate bond market
Greater efforts are being exerted into instituting a transparent corporate bond market and radically tackling violations in corporate bond trading, which are common in the market.
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is working on perfecting governmental Decree No.153/2020/ND-CP which regulates privately-placed corporate bond issuances.
One of the highlights of the amended decree is gearing individual professional investors’ attention to bond products of better quality, mandating enhanced conditions from service providers, and adding regulations about the rights and responsibilities of market supervisory bodies.
The MoF is working on perfecting regulations on corporate bond issuance and trading
Accordingly, in light of the proposed amended Decree, individual professional investors need to possess a bond value touching VND1 billion ($43,470), stock investment value reaching VND2 billion ($86,950), and an account value (not using margins) maintained at least six months.
In addition, investors must clearly understand the conditions, clauses, and risks associated with the bond investment, and ensure to fully abide by regulations before engaging in privately-placed corporate bond trading.
To ensure the corporate bond market’s sustainable development, industry experts proposed that the MoF should introduce solutions to spur the development of intermediary financial institutions.
Moving forward, to close the loopholes leading to the illegal trading of privately-placed corporate bonds through authority investment and capital contribution agreements, the proposed amended decree rules that investors are not allowed to resell their bonds to individuals who are not professional investors.
To ensure the corporate bond market’s sustainable development, industry experts proposed that the MoF should introduce solutions to spur the development of intermediary financial institutions such as insurance firms, investment funds, and pension fund systems in order to fuel market demand as well as create safe investment channels to individual investors.
For its part, the MoF unveiled that it would require the State Securities Commission to review and appraise the operation of stock investment funds and bond investment funds in the direction of stimulating the participation of these funds in the corporate bond market and encouraging individual investors to join the corporate bond market resorting to such investment funds to mitigate risk.
Towards this goal, the MoF would consider adding regulations on stock investment funds to invest in privately-placed corporate bonds with high credit ratings.
According to the MoF, in the first quarter of this year, individual professional investors bought 9.5 per cent of privately-placed corporate bonds.
