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Vietnam Proposes Digital Assets As SME Loan Collateral

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance proposed allowing SMEs to use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property rights as collateral for bank loans under the draft revised Law on Support for SMEs. If adopted, the proposal would push banks and regulators to define custody, valuation and enforcement standards for tokenized and virtual assets.

High impact🇻🇳 VietnamRegulationTokenizationVietnam Ministry of FinanceViet Nam News

APAC FINSTAB analysis

For APAC operators, this creates a high-impact signal around regulation, tokenization in Vietnam. Named institutions or platforms: Vietnam Ministry of Finance, Viet Nam News. Teams should monitor the original source, map the change to licensing, custody, disclosure, and market-access obligations, and update their jurisdiction playbooks before the next compliance review.

Compliance read-through: map this event to entity licensing, market-access, custody, disclosure, token listing, and operational-risk obligations before expanding or marketing in the affected jurisdiction.

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