In the Financial Forum to connect banks with Women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (WSMEs), BIDV's representatives, experts and speakers have introduced and productively discussed about policies, supporting solutions and financial access for WSMEs.

As of 12 January, 2023 in Da Lat, the Forum was jointly organized by the State Bank of Vietnam, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council - VCCI, the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) and local commercial banks and WSMEs clients.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong – Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of BIDV’s Corporate Banking (third from the right) with speakers and experts in the discussion session of the Forum.

“With the customer-centered motto, BIDV constantly improves the ecosystem of modern and multi-utility products and services to optimize customer’s experience and comprehensively meet the needs of customers, with competition policies exclusively for WSMEs…” as Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong – Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of BIDV’s Corporate Banking said in this event.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong – Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of BIDV’s Corporate Banking delivers her speech in the Forum

Recently, BIDV has had credit packages with preferential interest rates to support SMEs including WSMEs, to expand their business. For WSME customers, the comprehensive financial program has been implementing to minimize the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, combined with a USD 5 million grant granted by the Financial Initiatives Fund for Women Entrepreneurs (We-Fi) and BIDV’s VND 3,000 billion capital. Customers not only enjoy preferential interest rates, capital withdrawal commitment fees, but also participate in free training courses on business consulting, cash flow management, human resource management, and product development or new business and information technology.

Especially, BIDV has launched the SMEasy digital platform (https://smeasy.bidv.com.vn) that is designed in the model “One-Stop Shop” to provide synchronous financial and non-financial solutions for customers so as to increase internal resources, improve financial health and competitiveness for SMEs. The platform has a specially designed interface for female entrepreneurs with the message "Shining with WSMEs".

Supporting SMEs, especially WSMEs has been one of priorities given by the Government, requiring joint coordination of line agencies, organizations and commercial banks. With the motto of keeping pioneering steps and accompanying with customers for development, BIDV will always be a reliable, sustainable companion of SME customers in general and WSMEs in particular.

With accompanying with SMEs including WSMEs in the past years,  BIDV has firmly confirmed with its strong commitment to become a reliable partner for sustainable development of customers.