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TOPICS FOR GROUP PRESENTATION

Instruction: Students will form groups of 4-5 students/group. Each group will be
assigned a topic to do their project each week. The accomplishment of the project includes two
tasks:
1. Presentation: 10 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A and discussion (Require comments and
questions from all other groups). PowerPoint slides: maximum 20 slides, including
references.
2. Report: 1500 words (+/- 10%) excluding appendix, abstract/summary and reference
pages, Times New Roman 12 font, 1.2 lines spaced.
Hard copy of the slides must be handed to the tutor right before the beginning of the
presentation. Reports (in soft and hard copy) should be submitted ONE WEEK AFTER the
presentation, after taking into considerations all the comments by the tutor and classmates. The
filenames should follow the form: Tutorial number_Group number _Topic number.

Topic 1: A foreign bank is considering opening a branch in Vietnam. As an analyst


participating in this project, your task is to investigate about financial system in Vietnam. Your
report must cover all aspects of financial markets, financial institutions and financial instruments,
including regulations. Please emphasize your analysis on typical characteristics of Vietnamese
financial system. Further discuss about Vietnamese commercial banks: its roles and functions,
current and future development and contributions to the Vietnam economy.

Topic 2: As a bank officer working for the R&D department, you have to report to the
Board of Directors about future development of the payment system. You are expected to search
necessary information and data about:
- The evolution of payment system in the world
- The development of payment system in Vietnam including the current categories of
payments available with their strengths and weaknesses.
- Potential opportunities and challenges
Your Board of Directors also concerns about the development of Bitcoin. Discuss about
the opportunity and threat of this new type of money for the banking development.

Topic 3: As managers of a commercial bank, you have to report to the Board of Directors
about interest rates movements in Vietnam in the last 3 years and forecasts for the next year. You
are expected to search necessary information and data about:
- Important types of interest rates in the financial market.
- Movements in interest rates in Vietnam in the past 3 years and the expected trend next
year.
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- Factors affecting these movements using the Loanable Fund Framework or Liquidity
Preference Framework when applicable.

Topic 4: Assuming that you are managers of a foreign bank, who is planning to invest in
bonds market in Vietnam. Search necessary information to report to the Board of Directors of the
bank about:
- General overview of bonds market in Vietnam in relation with other markets in the
world: types of bonds issued, recent development, contributions to the Vietnam financial market
and economy, opportunities and challenges.
- Risk structure of interest rates of bond issued in Vietnam: default risk (credit rating),
liquidity premium and income tax treatment.
- Term structure of interest rates of bonds issued in Vietnam: Analysis of changes in the
government bond yield curve in the last 5 years.

Topic 5: As the CFO of a joint stock commercial bank in Vietnam, your assigned task
this month is to investigate the stock market in Vietnam to find any opportunity to raise capital
from an initial public offering (IPO). Specifically, you have to find information about: the
general development of the Vietnam stock market compared to other countries (choose 2
countries for comparison), the main IPO process and IPO requirements, opportunities and
challenges for a bank to be listed on a stock exchange.

Topic 6: You have learned about asymmetric information and problems it might cause.
Problems can be adverse selection, moral hazard and more specifically, principal-agent problem.
Find a real case/cases in reality about one of these problems in finance, identify causes,
consequences and tools should be used specifically in the case to address the problem. Finally,
what lessons can be learned from this case from the point of view of the policy makers or
regulators?

Topic 7: As the CFO of a commercial bank, you are required to report about foreign
exchange market and foreign exchange rate system in Vietnam.
- Exchange rate system in Vietnam, including exchange rate determination
- Factors affecting exchange rate USD/VND in the long run and in the short run
- Effect of exchange rate movements on Vietnam’s economy
- Central bank’s intervention: What are policies of Central Bank of Vietnam regarding
the USD/VND exchange rate for the last 3 years and next year? Provide evidence on how the
central bank of Vietnam control the foreign exchange market (situation, method, effects)

Topic 8: You are investigating an opportunity to invest in banking industry in Vietnam.


Your report to your boss must include at least the following points:
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- Overview of commercial banks’ operations in Vietnam: major sources of funds, major


uses of funds, off balance sheet transactions.
- Search for balance sheets of a commercial bank for the last three years:
 What are the major sources of funds, uses of funds for this bank: are there
any changes in the structure overtime and any differences compared to peers
or industry average?
 Analyze the ways the bank undertakes asset and liability management,
liquidity management, capital management, interest rate risk management.

Topic 9: The world’s economy is facing the highest level of inflation rate for the past 40
years. The Central Bank of many countries has taken actions to control inflation, and prepare for
the “soft-landing”, especially the Federal Reserve System (FED) in the United States.
You are required to search necessary information regarding the FED’s current monetary
policies in the past year and analyze their expected influence on the US financial markets (in
particular: stock and bond market) and the overall economy (interest rates, inflation rate, etc.) in
the short-run as well as the long-run. Is there any effect on other markets (countries), especially
Vietnam?

Topic 10: It’s well-known that Vietnam’s financial market is unique and sometimes it
does not follow the same movements as the rest of the world. Despite the high inflation rate
occurring around the world, State Bank of Vietnam has successfully managed to control inflation
and is aiming to keep it under 4% in 2022. Your task is to:
- Find information about the SBV’s monetary policy during the past 3 years and its
rationale.
- Analyze the effect of its actions might have on the financial market (market interest rates,
stock and bond market) and the economy (e.g. economic growth, inflation, etc.) in the
short-run as well as the long-run.

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