The statistics also took into account the activities of domestic commercial and joint-venture banks, including the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, the Co-operative Bank of Vietnam and the Vietnam Association of People's Credit Funds.
For commercial banks in particular, total assets by the end of August 2016 reached more than 160 billion US dollars. Total assets of joint-stock banks were valued at nearly 140 billion US dollars. Available funds in the whole system were about 27.4 billion US dollars, a 6.13% rise compared to the end of 2015.
