Vietnam plans to draw more share investors in H2

Hanoi

VIETNAM'S securities regulator is planning new measures in the second half of 2015 to lure more foreign investors to a stock market that has outperformed Southeast Asian peers this year.

The government wants to speed account-opening procedures for overseas investors, accelerate the share-listing process, cut the trading settlement period to two days from three, and force listed companies to release information in both Vietnamese and English, Nguyen Thanh Long, vice-chairman of the State Securities Commission, said in an interview on Wednesday.