Vietnam aims to meet MSCI upgrading criteria and FTSE's advanced emerging-market standards, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Văn Thắng said at the Asian Securities Forum on October 1, Báo Chính phủ reports. The emphasis is on market quality, standards and international integration.
The government plans further legal improvements, infrastructure modernisation and digital development. These upgrading ambitions are future objectives, not an announcement that MSCI has already upgraded Vietnam or that FTSE has placed it in its advanced category.