Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 2025: a forum for scientific exchange supported by EMLV

The Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 2025 (VSBF) began under the scientific chairmanship of Duc Khuong Nguyen, Director of International Development at DVHE, representing EMLV.

Jointly organised by AVSE Global, the Banking Academy of Vietnam, EMLV, Massey University and the International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics (ISAFE), the event brings together researchers, experts and decision-makers from the financial sector.

An international meeting dedicated to current issues in finance

The VSBF 2025 is part of a dynamic process in which issues related to financial markets, banking regulation, technology integration and structural changes in economic systems are analysed from an academic and professional perspective.

The opening of the symposium provided an opportunity to contextualise the major developments in the sector and to highlight the importance of dialogue between higher education establishments, financial institutions and public actors.

EMLV’s involvement in this event is in line with its positioning as a management school with an international faculty, committed to scientific research and connected to global economic transformations.

The themes addressed at the VSBF are in line with the main areas of finance research conducted at the De Vinci Research Centre (DVRC): sustainable finance, governance, international markets, risk management and the digital economy.

Keynotes: presentations at the crossroads of research and international practices

The symposium welcomes two renowned keynote speakers in the field of international finance:

• Prof. Sudipto Dasgupta, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
• Prof. João A.C. Santos, Financial Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Co-editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation

Their contributions shed light on the evolution of financial mechanisms, regulatory arbitrage, systemic risk management and the dynamics at play in global markets.

These presentations will structure the dialogue between participants, whether they are academics, finance professionals or institutional representatives.

A scientific programme open to a variety of contributions

VSBF 2025 highlights a wide range of research topics, reflecting the diversity of contemporary issues in finance. The work presented covers, in particular:

• Asset pricing and asset allocation
• Banking regulation and financial services
• Behavioural finance
• Capital market integration
• Corporate finance, IPOs, SEOs and mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Digital finance
• International market dynamics
• Emerging market finance
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Sustainable finance
• Financial crises and contagion
• Financial engineering and derivatives
• Financial econometrics
• Financial modelling, etc.

This programme also includes contributions from practitioners: professional reports, sector analyses and reflections on public policy.

This hybrid approach reinforces the relevance of the symposium for all stakeholders in the field.

A forum for exchange for the Vietnamese and international academic community

The VSBF is a prime venue for the Vietnamese scientific community seeking to develop international collaborations.

The event facilitates the development of joint research projects, the exchange of methodologies and the dissemination of work on emerging markets, national financial policies and regulatory developments.

This dynamic is in line with EMLV’s objectives for the internationalisation of research: to promote academic partnerships, enhance the school’s scientific visibility and offer Master in Management – Grande Ecole Programme students a structured education based on contributions from financial research, particularly within the Finance & Management Control, Corporate Finance and Financial Markets specialisations.

A symposium supporting the evolution of financial practices

The discussions held throughout the two days of the symposium help to shed light on the debates that are currently shaping finance: digitalisation of services, resilience of financial systems, regulatory transitions, sustainable finance and increased transparency of institutions. These issues are at the heart of the transformations in the finance professions studied at EMLV.

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