Real estate sector bonds account for a major trunk of corporate bonds due for redemption this year.
Faster growth in both the government and corporate bond segments pushed Vietnam’s local currency bond market to reach $91.5 billion in the end of last year, up by 9.8 per cent from the third quarter of 2021.
While Covid-19 drags on local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia, the market still got a positive increase.
Vietnam’s LCY bond market is smallest in size compared to other emerging East Asia markets such as Indonesia ($217 billion), Singapore ($310 billion), Malaysia ($353 billion) and Thailand ($399 billion).
Vietnam’s private enterprise bond market increased 30 per cent year on year.
