(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung beat the gong at the State Securities Commission on Tuesday to start the first securities transaction of the new lunar year.

He said he hoped that the State Securities Commission would go beyond its limitations and weaknesses to achieve stronger growth, contributing to national development. He asked the Ministry of Finance, the President of the State Securities Commission, and other relevant agencies to continue to refine the legal system in order to make it easier for Vietnam’s securities market to mobilize more funding against the backdrop of Vietnam’s accelerated negotiations in a number of free trade agreements. He also gave instructions to a project to reform the securities market in order to step up Vietnam’s international economic integration.

The HCM city stock exchange also resumed its normal activities. 18 securities companies with the largest securities brokerage market shares, bonds, fund certificates, and auction rate securities were honored to this occasion.  

Prime Minister Dung also paid a Tet visit to the staff of the Bank for Social Policies. He asked the bank to focus resources on creating breakthroughs in credit policy, helping poor households to escape poverty, and provide credit support for human resource development and building new rural areas.

He asked the State Bank of Vietnam and the Bank for Social Policies to continue support for policy beneficiaries. He requested the Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Vietnam to increase credit loans for the Bank for Social Policies.