SeABank Vietnam (Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank)

Key details

• Launch: 1994

Overview

SeABank Vietnam is Vietnamese commercial bank + HOSE: SSB + BRG Group Vietnamese conglomerate controlled by Nguyen Thi Nga Vietnamese billionaire + Société Générale (held a stake until its 2018 exit) + Vietnamese retail + institutional + foreign investors free float + one of Vietnam's mid-sized commercial banks + founded 1994 in Hai Phong Vietnam as Hai Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank then 2005 SeABank Southeast Asia Bank rebrand [1, vn-cro].

History

1994 — Hai Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank founded in Hai Phong Vietnam as Vietnamese provincial commercial bank.

2005 — SeABank Southeast Asia Bank rebrand consolidating Hai Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

2008 — Société Générale French parent strategic partnership with SeABank.

Mar 24 2021 — SeABank IPO on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange HOSE: SSB.

2014 — SeABank Mobile banking app launch.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank SeABank (Vietnamese commercial bank; HOSE: SSB).

Major shareholders: BRG Group (Vietnamese conglomerate controlled by Nguyen Thi Nga Vietnamese billionaire; BRG Group parent of Intercontinental Hotels Vietnam + Hilton Hanoi + BRG retail) + Société Générale (EPA: GLE; French parent) strategic partnership + Vietnamese retail + institutional + foreign investors free float.

Regulators: State Bank of Vietnam SBV.

Technical integration

SeABank Mobile app (iOS + Android) + seabank.com.vn online + SeABank branch network across Vietnam + SeABank Visa + Mastercard + JCB cards; NAPAS 247 (Vietnamese national interbank instant payments) + VietQR (Vietnamese national QR payment scheme) + Vietnamese Dong VND domestic transfers.

Implementations & partners

Major Vietnamese banking + payments competitors: [[vietcombank]] (Vietcombank; HOSE: VCB) + [[vietinbank]] (VietinBank; HOSE: CTG) + [[bidv]] (BIDV; HOSE: BID) + [[techcombank]] (Techcombank; HOSE: TCB) + [[mb-bank]] (MBBank; HOSE: MBB) + [[vpbank]] (VPBank; HOSE: VPB) + [[hdbank]] (HDBank; HOSE: HDB) + [[vib-vn]] (VIB; HOSE: VIB) + [[shb-bank]] (SHB; HOSE: SHB) + [[ocb-vn]] (OCB; HOSE: OCB) + [[napas-247]] (NAPAS 247) + vietqr (VietQR).

Regulators: State Bank of Vietnam SBV.

Status

Active, Vietnamese commercial bank + HOSE:SSB + BRG Group Vietnamese conglomerate controlled by Nguyen Thi Nga Vietnamese billionaire + Société Générale French parent EPA:GLE strategic partnership + one of Vietnam's mid-sized commercial banks + founded 1994 in Hai Phong Vietnam as Hai Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank then 2005 SeABank Southeast Asia Bank rebrand [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 SeABank VN — official
• 2 SeABank — Wikipedia
• vn-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/VN-vietnam.md

Source

Biography extracted from seabank-vn.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.