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Vu Thanh Trung, deputy general director of Dong A Remittances Co., said that Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong were the major remittance resources for Viet Nam in 2019. The volume of remittances from these territories was expected to increase in 2020. … [Read more...] about Remittances to Viet Nam through banks grow by 12 per cent in 2019

Singapore (VNA) - The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on March 19 it has imposed fines of 5.2 million SGD (about 3.95 million USD) on the Singapore branch of Standard Chartered Bank (SCBS), and 1.2 million SGD (about 910,000 million USD) on Standard Chartered Trust (Singapore) Limited (SCTS). Xinhua news agency quoted a MAS press release as saying it found that the risk management and control of SCBS and SCTS in relation to the transfers of trust accounts of SCBS customers from Standard Chartered Trust (Guernsey) to SCTS from December 2015 to January 2016 were loose. MAS said the and SCTS did not adequately assess and mitigate risks, and also failed to file suspicious transaction reports in a timely manner for those transfers that occurred shortly before Guernsey's implementation of the Common Reporting Standards (CRS) for the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters. It said the timing of the transfers raised questions of whether the … [Read more...] about Singapore fines Standard Chartered Bank, Trust

Huynh Trong Dat, a painter, is one of them. The 34-year-old from the northern province of Hai Duong moved to Ho Chi Minh City three years ago. He works as a painter during the year, but joins the army of motorbike taxi drivers in December since "most people have their houses repainted by the last month of the year," and he has nothing to do. … [Read more...] about Tet pressures not worth it, say migrants who stay back