The Vietnamese ministry of finance's Debt and Asset Trading Co (DATC) is in the final stage of negotiations with creditors including France’s Natixis, Malaysia’s May Bank, Bangkok Bank and Viet A Bank, DATC leaders said at a recent meeting in Hanoi, according to the Toan Viet news agency.

DATC has already agreed to buy VND 394bn of debt from Vietcombank and sealed a deal to take on VND 63bn from HSBC Vietnam.

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