STATE BANK OF VIETNAM MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING BANKING ACADEMY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE --------- GRADUATION THESIS A SURVEY ON THE INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT ACTIVITIES OF SAIGON – HANOI COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCL BANK IN THE PERIOD 2014 – 2016 Student: Trinh Linh Dan Student ID: 16A7510199 DECLARATION Class: K16 ATCD Supervisor: M.A Tran Thi Thu Thuy I hereby declare that the thesis is my original work and effort. Where other sources of information have been used, they have been acknowledged. Hanoi, 2017 Signature Trinh Linh Dan Banking Academy Graduation Thesis DECLARATION I hereby declare that the thesis is my original work and effort. Where other sources of information have been used, they have been acknowledged.
Signature Trinh Linh Dan Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD i Banking Academy Graduation Thesis ACKNOWLEGEMENT This graduation thesis could not been done without the support of some people and I really appreciate their valuable assistance. First of all, I would like to convey my special thanks to my supervisor, Ms. Tran Thi Thu Thuy (M.A) for her great guidance and advices. Without her help, I could have not completed this thesis within the limited time.
Next, I would like to express my sincere appreciations to my tutors, Ms. Nguyen Thi Sen and Ms. Dang Hong Ngoc, staffs of the International Banking Centre at the Head Office of Saigon – Hanoi Commercial Joint stock Bank. In spite of their busy schedules at the bank, they always spared the time to teach me a lot about the profession of International Payment.
Last but not least, I am also grateful to my family and friends, who have been by my side the entire time. Their love and support are my greatest encouragement to finish the thesis. Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD ii Banking Academy Graduation Thesis ABSTRACT This thesis provides an overview of International Payment activities of the Head Office of Saigon – Hanoi Commercial Joint stock Bank (SHB) from 2014 to 2016. In part one, the research gives a basic knowledge of commercial banks and their roles in the International Payment operation.
The next part includes an overview of Saigon – Hanoi Commercial Joint stock Bank development history and a detail analysis of the current situation of International Payment activities at SHB’s Head quarter. Part three is the most important with the findings after part two’s analysis. The research points out the achievements that International Payment activities of SHB gained in the period 2014 – 2016, some limitations that still contain in the bank’s system and the causes of the limitations. In the final part, the thesis gives some suggestions to improve the limitations of International payment activities at SHB and proposes several recommendations to the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam to help enhance operation’s efficiency of SHB’ International Payment activities.
Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD iii Banking Academy Graduation Thesis TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNKOWLEDGEMENT. iii LIST OF ABBREVIATION. vi LIST OF TABLES AND DIAGRAMS. Importance of the topic.
Scope and focus. 3 Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework of International payment in commercial banks. Basic knowledge of commercial banks. Definition of commercial banks.
Activities of the commercial banks. Definition and roles of International Payment in commercial banks 5 1. Definition of International Payment. Roles of International Payment in commercial banks.
Conditions to make International Payment. Main methods of payment for International transactions. Collection of payment. Advantages and disadvantages of the three main methods of payment.
Criteria to evaluate International payment operation towards commercial banks. 18 Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD iv Banking Academy Graduation Thesis Chapter 2: International payment activities in SHB in the period 2014 – 2016. Data collection methods. Data analysis methods.
General information of SHB and International payment activities in SHB in the period 2014 – 2016. General information of SHB. Real situation of International Payment activities in the period 2014 -2016. International payment regulations in SHB.
Processes in implementing some main methods of payment in SHB. International payment’s performance results in SHB in the period 2014 – 2016. 30 Chapter 3: Evaluating operation efficiency of International banking centre at SHB in the period 2014 – 2016. Evaluation based on the data collected.
Factors affect operation efficiency. Development orientation of International Banking Centre in SHB. Suggestions to improve operation efficiency. Proposals to the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam.
55 Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD v Banking Academy Graduation Thesis LIST OF ABBREVIATION Abbreviation Explanation IP International payment IBC International banking centre SHB Saigon – Hanoi commercial joint stock bank SBV State Bank of Vietnam FED Federal Reserve System of the United State ADB Asian Development Bank CBs Commercial banks L/C Letter of Credit M/T Mail transfer T/T Telegraphic transfer RCA Revolving Loan Agreement TFP Global Trade Financing Program VND Vietnam Dong USD US Dollar Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD vi Banking Academy Graduation Thesis LIST OF TABLES AND DIAGRAMS Table 1.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of different methods of payment .1 International Payment volume of SHB 2014 – 2016.2 Sales of international payment actitivities at SHB 2014 – 2016.3 Revenue, cost and profit of International payment at SHB from 2014 to 2016 .4 Proportion of International payment’s revenue in total banking services’ revenue of SHB in the period 2014 – 2016.5 Proportion of each method of payment’s revenue in total international payment’ revenue of SHB in the period 2014 – 2016.6 Identifying proportion of International payment’s profit in total profit of SHB in the period 2014 – 2016. Procedure of Documentary Collection. Issuance of Letter of Credit .3 Payment under a Letter of Credit.1 Structure of SHB’s organization .2 Proportion of different methods of payment in total international payment .3 Revenue of each methods of payment, cost and profit of International payment at SHB from 2014 to 2016. 36 Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD vii Banking Academy Graduation Thesis INTRODUCTION 1.
Importance of the topic In the background of economic globalization, a closed door policy of a country will not help its economy to grow because it is the time when all countries tend to open up and interact with others. Therefore, International Payment plays an important role in the country’s economic development. International Payment is an inevitable cog of the trading wheel, a significant part in every products and service trading between individuals and organizations of different nations. Thanks to International Payment, the economic exchange relationships between countries is now much easier to establish.
As the intermediary, banks will protect their customers’ rights, consult and instruct them about the payment technique, which will help to reduce risks in the transaction as well as create customers’ trust. Also, if customers could not meet the payment requirements, banks would finance them by negotiating credit documents. International Payment service is a strong revenue source for banks, which means that banks can expand their scale and intensely raise their competitiveness. A good IP system will actively support credit flow in import and export activities as well as improve foreign currency trading, underwrite in trade, commercial finance and other international banking activities.
Banks’ liquidity will also be raised because the bank can use the temporary idle capital from business’s trading on margin while processing International Payment transaction. As the world today is filled with information technology, there is no more commercial bank with slow speed and lack of information working systems. Day by day, managers try their best to improve and upgrade their institutions in order to attract more customer and make higher profit. This has led to an underground competition between commercial banks in the fight to win customers.
According to the Vietnam Report, Saigon – Hanoi Commercial Joint stock Bank (SHB) is among the top ten which are the most prestigious banks in Vietnam in 2016. Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD 1 Banking Academy Graduation Thesis Moreover, International Payment department, which is called International Banking Centre (IBC) in the head quarter of SHB, is one of the parts which bring the most profit to the bank. This reason has made it crucial to bring out a research about the assessment to the current status of International payment activities at SHB and give out some suggestions to enhance operation efficiency. Research aims The research is brought out to give an overview about the IP activities at the International Banking Centre of SHB.
It describes the main methods of IP that SHB provides their clients and the current situation of SHB from 2014 to 2016. After conducting the survey, the thesis gives a detail analysis on the number collected and proposes some suggestions to improve the issue that contains in the bank in order to enhance the operation efficiency and promote the bank’s prestige. Scope and focus The survey takes place in the International banking centre in SHB’s Head office. The study mainly focuses on the implementation of the bank’s processing system supported by statistics in the last three years (2014 – 2016).
Research questions The thesis focuses on answering the following questions: What are the procedures of main methods of international payment at SHB? How did the international payment activities at SHB perform in the period 2014 – 2016? What are the achievements and limitations in International Banking Centre of SHB in the period 2014 – 2016? 5. Research methodology Field study is absolutely essential for every descendant research. After learning from old studies, the thesis was a practical result of the author’s three months internship at the IBC – Head office of SHB. The problems showed through the collected data and Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD 2 Banking Academy Graduation Thesis the author’s own observation.
A qualitative analysis was applied into the research with the approval of the author’s intern instructors. Research design The thesis includes 4 main parts as follow Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework of International payment Chapter 2: : International payment activities in SHB from 2014 to 2016 Chapter 3: Evaluating operation efficiency of International banking centre at SHB in the period 2014 – 2016 Chapter 4: Recommendations and Conclusion Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD 3 Banking Academy Graduation Thesis Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Theoretical Framework of International payment 1. Basic knowledge of commercial banks 1. Definition of Commercial banks According to the Bank of England., “A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.” From the above notion of bank, a commercial bank can be understood as a form of bank that accepts deposits and issues loans to financial organizations including individuals and businesses.
In a commercial bank, customers invest their money by using services provided by commercial banks such as deposit in savings accounts and certificates of deposit. There are many kinds of commercial banks’ credit, for example car loans, mortgages and business loans. Activities of the commercial banks According to Simpson, C. (2017, March 30th), the commercial banks have three main activities, which are accepting deposits (or make loans), providing safety and acting as payment agents.
Firstly, about accepting deposits (or people might call making loans), the tasks of commercial banks including accepting deposits from customers, raising capital from investors or lenders, and then using that money to make loans, buying securities and providing other financial services to customers. These credits are then used by individuals and associations to purchase items or develop business operations, which hence prompts more spared resources that progress toward the banks. On the off chance that banks can loan cash at a higher Trinh Linh Dan – K16 ATCD 4 Banking Academy Graduation Thesis financial cost than they need to pay for assets and working costs, they profit. This extremely fundamental idea represent in the old "3-6-Rule." Secondly, about providing safety, commercial banks offer customers safety and comfort.