Continuing the continuous efforts in accompanying Vietnamese female entrepreneurs, VPBankSME - the small and medium-sized enterprise customer segment of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank, HoSE: VPB) - has excellently won the award "Best Bank for Female owners 2025".
The award was presented by Asian Banking & Finance magazine within the framework of the ABF Retail Banking Awards 2025, held on July 4 in Singapore.
With this title, VPBank once again affirms its pioneering role and strong commitment in empowering, accompanying and providing a comprehensive launching pad for women-owned enterprises (WSME) in Vietnam.
VPBank representative shared: The award is a worthy recognition of the journey that VPBankSME has been pursuing for many years to accompany Vietnamese female entrepreneurs. The support for the WSME segment is part of VPBank's consistent strategy on sustainable development, promoting prosperity for customers, shareholders and the community.
Appreciating VPBank's persistent efforts, Asian Banking & Finance magazine said: "VPBank received the award "Best Bank for Female-owned Enterprises 2025" thanks to its commitment to supporting WSME through financial and non-financial initiatives.
The above efforts have helped VPBank become a trusted partner of global organizations, especially with initiatives such as the COVID-19 recovery support program and the project Improving financial access capacity using the randomized controlled trial (RCT) research method".
Since 2017, VPBankSME has supported WSME businesses through many practical and meaningful activities such as implementing loan incentives, developing WE credit cards exclusively for female-owned businesses with many attractive incentives and privileges, organizing trade chain connections, training and direct and online courses to improve management capacity, and meaningful seminars to help female entrepreneurs balance their careers and families.
Through the above initiatives, by the end of 2024, the total outstanding credit granted to WSME enterprises by the end of 2024 reached VND18,581 billion, up 18.9%.
In order to continue to accompany and support the WSME community, VPBankSME has recently launched a comprehensive solution package "Shopping pad for Women's Business Support" with 4 core pillars: Finance, Technology, Trade and Knowledge.
The solution package integrates superior financial support such as unsecured loans up to VND3 billion, incentives to increase loan limits up to 20%, increase mortgage loan limits by 5%, WE platinum credit cards with unlimited refunds, 55-day interest-free period, along with trading incentives such as giving beautiful accounts, free domestic and international money transfers, exchange rate incentives and guarantee fees.
At the same time, it is free and reduces fees for using business process digitalization tools, setting up online booths and integrating convenient payment gateways... At the same time, VPBankSME also offers a "Breakthrough Business with AI" course worth 6.8 million VND, helping modern female entrepreneurs improve their operational capacity and apply practical technology.
Along with the above "launching platforms", VPBank also launched a preferential program "Receiving quick capital - Rich quality gifts" exclusively for WSME customers borrowing capital for the first time at the bank, with a gift worth 1.5 million VND to encourage a solid start to the business journey.
The award organized by Asian Banking & Finance magazine is one of the most prestigious playgrounds in the region, honoring financial institutions with innovative solutions, application of digital technology and outstanding customer experience. With a jury of leading consulting firms such as BCG, McKinsey, KPMG, the award is a prestigious testament to the innovation capacity and leading position of banks.
VPBank has just revealed the new segment VPBank Private - providing specialized financial services created exclusively for elite customers, with the mission of accompanying and fostering sustainable and lasting prosperity.
This is a strategic step forward, demonstrating VPBank's strong commitment to providing superior, high-class, and sophisticatedly personalized financial solutions to fully meet each customer's portfolio.
The opening of VPBank Private has once again affirmed VPBank's business philosophy: constantly improving the experience, creating outstanding value and accompanying customers on the journey to conquer the quintessence of life.
