27/08/2026
VIS Rating joined Vietcap’s webinar to share our perspectives on Vietnam’s credit market outlook and infrastructure financing with an audience including foreign investment funds, insurers and other institutional investors.
Key takeaways from our discussion:
🔹 Vietnam’s corporate bond market remained resilient in 1H2026, with VND272 trillion of issuance, broadly stable year-on-year. Defaults declined to 0.3%, while the recovery rate improved to 47.7%. Looking ahead, around VND235 trillion of bonds will mature over the next 12 months, making refinancing capacity a key differentiator between stronger and more stressed issuers.
🔹 Decree 200 is raising the bar for issuance standards, disclosure and investor protection. Credit ratings, tighter transaction terms and bank-guaranteed structures are increasingly relevant, but the market still needs a credible risk-based VND yield curve, a deeper long-term institutional investor base and stronger market intermediaries.
🔹 We expect credit conditions in 2H2026 to soften modestly but remain broadly stable, amid persistently tight financing conditions and a more challenging operating environment.
🔹 For infrastructure, project bankability remains the key constraint — not the availability of capital. Land clearance, construction cost overruns, offtaker risk and revenue shortfalls are recurring risks that need to be properly allocated, measured and priced. VIS Rating’s Project Finance Rating Framework assesses construction and operating risks separately to support this process.
🔹 The Draft PPP Bond Decree could create an important new financing channel by allowing project SPVs to issue bonds, strengthening principal and interest protection, introducing bondholder representation, and requiring a credit rating or rated guarantor. However, regulations alone will not create a scalable market — appropriate transaction structures, long-tenor liquidity, a rated VND yield curve and supporting capital and tax incentives will also matter.
🔹 Vietnam already has a substantial pool of long-term institutional capital, including nearly USD100 billion held by VSS and insurers. The challenge is making infrastructure assets investable within their mandates. Credit enhancement — including guarantees, partial credit guarantees, political risk protection and, over time, securitisation — combined with independent credit ratings can help bridge that gap.
Thank you Chứng khoán Vietcap for the opportunity to exchange views with the investment community on the next stage of Vietnam’s corporate bond and infrastructure financing markets.