Cleaned 154 million accounts, prevented 1,500 billion VND of unusual transactions

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Cleaned 154 million accounts, prevented 1,500 billion VND of unusual transactions

All 154 million bank accounts have been cleaned and nearly 300,000 customers have been warned to stop transactions due to suspected fraud and cheating with a total amount of about 1,500 billion VND. These are the latest figures announced by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on October 3.

Accordingly, Mr. Le Hoang Chinh Quang, Director of the Department of Information Technology - State Bank, said that up to September 2025, the State Bank has proactively proposed to cut and simplify 124/298 administrative procedures, accounting for 41.6%, helping to shorten hundreds of days to handle administrative procedures and save more than 7.6 billion VND in costs.

The Anti-Money Laundering Department has coordinated with C06 - Ministry of Public Security to clean up 154 ​​million accounts and 36 million customer records in the database to prevent money laundering and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The National Credit Information Center has also coordinated with C06 to cross-check about 57 million records, cleaning up nearly 44.5 million customer records in the credit information database.

Regarding credit institutions and payment intermediaries, Mr. Le Hoang Chinh Quang said that by the end of September 2025, 57 banks and 39 payment intermediaries had integrated biometric verification functions on mobile banking. Over 128.9 million individual customer profiles and 1.3 million corporate customer profiles had been verified for biometric information, reaching 100% of the total number of accounts generating transactions on digital channels.

Recently, the State Bank has collected about 600,000 accounts showing signs of irregularities.

Recently, the State Bank has collected about 600,000 accounts with unusual signs, from which it has coordinated with banks to warn nearly 300,000 customers, preventing transactions with a total amount of about 1,500 billion VND.

"After a period of cleaning the customer database and applying biometric information matching solutions, the number of individual customers being scammed and losing money decreased by 59%, and the number of individual accounts receiving scammed money decreased by 52% compared to the same period in 2024," the Director of the Department of Information Technology emphasized.

In addition, regarding the risk of money laundering through crypto assets, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Tho, Deputy Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Department - SBV, said that this agency and other ministries and branches have implemented Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP on piloting the crypto asset market issued by the Government on September 9, 2025 with 4 key tasks, including: establishing anti-money laundering obligations for crypto asset service providers; collecting, processing and transferring information on suspicious transactions; close coordination between SBV, Ministry of Finance , State Securities Commission and Ministry of Public Security; international cooperation to increase the effectiveness of anti-money laundering.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Tho, the State Bank of Vietnam is currently studying specific guidelines so that financial institutions can provide services related to the crypto-asset market to meet the requirements of the law on anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism financing and anti-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction financing, associated with the characteristics of the crypto-asset market./.

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