From Vision to Execution: Developing an International Financial Centre

About the Webinar

Vietnam has built a trillion-dollar real economy, but its financial ecosystem has not kept pace. Deal structuring, capital advisory and tax planning are still routed through Singapore and Hong Kong. In this webinar, Adrian Ng (GLEIF) and Dat (Nolan) Bui explored how the Da Nang IFC can bring these services onshore, and why digital trust and the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) matter for attracting long-term institutional capital.

Speakers

Adrian Ng

Country Representative, Singapore
GLEIF

Dat (Nolan) Bui

Investment & Financial
Ecosystem Advisor

What We Covered

• Vietnam’s capital transition: strong growth, but high-value financial services leaking offshore
• The structural capital gap: long-life infrastructure and energy assets funded with short-term bank money
• Why an IFC, and why Da Nang: a regulatory sandbox alongside Hanoi’s policy role and Ho Chi Minh City’s commercial focus
• Four focus areas: green and transition finance, fintech, digital assets and tokenization, and cross-border capital structuring
• The architecture of trust: the cost of financial opacity and how the LEI standardises entity identification
• Questions and discussion with the speakers