Time for a stock market overhaul
09:54 | 16/03/2021
The overload technical issues of the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange have been a subject of controversy over the past few weeks, with the blame being attributed to poor management and incompetence of an age-old technology. But what will be the way out?
Vietnamâs stock exchange operations have barely been modernised over past decades. Photo: Le Toan
A flood of individual investors has led to outages and trading overload issues for the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX), with service disruptions coming during a period of frenetic trading.
Appetite for a better trading infrastructure has been seriously hampered by repeated problems which have not been addressed over the years. These outages generate inevitable criticism among traders and call into question the stability of the functionâs capacity.