{"id":15319,"date":"2021-06-07T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/07\/hdbank-to-pay-25-per-cent-dividend-in-shares-moodys-raises-credit-rating-for-the-bank-to-positive-outlook\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T03:40:00","slug":"hdbank-to-pay-25-per-cent-dividend-in-shares-moodys-raises-credit-rating-for-the-bank-to-positive-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/07\/hdbank-to-pay-25-per-cent-dividend-in-shares-moodys-raises-credit-rating-for-the-bank-to-positive-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"HDBank to pay 25 per cent dividend in shares, Moody&#8217;s raises credit rating for the bank to positive outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HO CHI&#13;<br \/>\nMINH CITY, VIETNAM &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 7 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hdbank.com.vn\/\">The Ho Chi Minh&#13;<br \/>\nCity Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank<\/a> (HoSE: HDBank) has announced plans&#13;<br \/>\nto increase its charter capital to more than VND20.273 trillion (US$879.48&#13;<br \/>\nmillion) by paying dividends for 2020 in shares and an employee stock option&#13;<br \/>\nplan.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p> According to information&#13;<br \/>\npublished by the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on June 4, the HDBank board of&#13;<br \/>\ndirectors approved the plan to hike the charter capital in 2021 as approved at&#13;<br \/>\nthe bank&#8217;s annual general meeting in April. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p> The Bank will increase its&#13;<br \/>\ncharter capital by VND3.984 trillion ($172.83 million) by issuing more than 398&#13;<br \/>\nmillion shares as dividends for 2020 at a rate of 25 per cent from&#13;<br \/>\nundistributed profits. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p> The lender will also issue&#13;<br \/>\n20 million shares to employees (ESOP). <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p> The HDB share closed on June&#13;<br \/>\n3 at VND35,800 with a lot of foreign buying. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter HDBank&#13;<br \/>\nreported a pre-tax profit of more than VND 2.1 trillion ($91.1 million), an&#13;<br \/>\nincrease of 68 per cent year-on-year, with income from services<b> <\/b>up by more than 98 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>HDBank&#8217;s return on equity&#13;<br \/>\nand return on assets increased strongly to 26.3 per cent and 2.1 per cent, its&#13;<br \/>\ncapital adequacy ratio (based on Basel II standards)  was  over 12 per cent while its standalone bad debts ratio  was  only 1.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Bank is considered to&#13;<br \/>\nhave high growth potential, with great potential in bancassurance, consumer&#13;<br \/>\nfinance, credit cards  and services .&#13;<br \/>\nHDBank is one of the few banks that not to have signed an exclusive&#13;<br \/>\ndistribution agreement with any life insurance company, and is currently the focus&#13;<br \/>\nof intense attention of many major players.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>International credit rating&#13;<br \/>\nagency Moody&#8217;s Investors Service recently upgraded HDBank&#8217;s outlook from&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;stable&#8221; to &#8220;positive&#8221;. The positive outlook reflects&#13;<br \/>\nMoody&#8217;s view that improvements in asset quality over recent years, which could&#13;<br \/>\ntranslate into lower credit costs and higher profitability, could raise the Bank&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\n Baseline Credit Assessments  over the next&#13;<br \/>\n12 &#8211; 18 months. <\/p>\n<p> #HDBank <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-07\/80843\/hdbank-to-pay-25-per-cent-dividend-in-shares-moodys-raises-credit-rating-for-the-bank-to-positive-outlook\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HO CHI&#13; MINH CITY, VIETNAM &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach &#8211; 7 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0The Ho Chi Minh&#13; City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HoSE: HDBank) has announced plans&#13; to increase its charter capital to more than VND20.273 trillion (US$879.48&#13; million) by paying dividends for 2020 in shares and an employee stock option&#13; plan. &#13; &#13; According to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}