According to the Bloomberg Over the past time, many international experts have expressed concern about China launching a national digital currency. British historian Niall Ferguson predicts that the digital yuan threatens to threaten America’s dominance in the global financial industry. Michael Hasenstab, head of investment fund Franklin Templeton, said that the digital yuan will weaken the position of the dollar, the reserve currency in the world. The administration of US President Joe Biden is studying the potential threat of the digital yuan to US national interests. However, those who are actually using their digital NTD are indifferent. Shenzhen is the city that runs the largest-scale digital yuan testing campaign. Reply Bloomberg Participants said they were not interested in leaving Ant Group or Tencent Holdings’ online payment apps. Online payment apps have been replacing cash in China for a long time. Photo: Getty Images. No conversion is intended “I’m not excited at all”, Bloomberg quoted Patricia Chen, who works in the telecommunications industry, as saying. She is one of more than 500,000 Shenzhen residents eligible to participate in the digital yuan trial. In this test, participants will download the government’s e-wallet application on their phones, connect to their bank accounts, and can convert up to 10,000 yuan ($ 1,548) in cash to digital currency. number (e-CNY). Similar to Alipay’s Ant Group app and Tencent’s WeChat Pay, digital yuan transactions are done very quickly using QR codes. When there is no Internet, users can use near field communication technology to make payments. Vera Lin – 25, an employee of a financial company in Shenzhen – said using digital yuan is quite easy. However, she has no intention of switching to digital yuan as the current online payment applications work seamlessly with other e-commerce services and platforms. Many people in Shenzhen said they have no intention of switching to digital yuan altogether. Photo: Reuters. Many stores participate in a trial of a 10% discount on digital yuan customers. However, that was not enough to convince Lin. She said Ant Group or Tencent’s platforms often offer discounts on many services, from ride-hailing to food delivery. Privacy is also a concern for Jan Chen, a 33-year-old civil servant. “The fact that the authorities can track every payment transaction is scary,” Chen said. I’m not excited at all User Patricia Chen In addition, some merchants and store owners revealed that they are concerned that information about all transactions goes directly to government databases even though the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) previously secured most of the delivery. translation will be confidential. In March, a representative of the Institute of Cryptocurrencies Research confirmed that PBOC will not directly know the identity of the user. However, the Chinese government may obtain information from financial institutions if it is suspected of illegal conduct. In addition, PBOC also encourages stores and merchants to use digital yuan by using free of charge. Currently, Alipay and WePay apps charge 0.6% per transaction. Difficult to take market share The yuan currently accounts for only 3% of total global payments. Expert Zennon Kapron, Director of consulting firm Kapronasia (Singapore) said that the digital version will only help the Chinese currency increase its market share by 1%. “The global impact of the digital yuan will be very small, unless China changes its economic structure and financial system,” said expert Kapron. Chinese officials themselves also show restraint when talking about the digital yuan. Last month, Mr. Li Bo – PBOC’s deputy governor – affirmed that China is developing a digital yuan to serve the domestic market, not with the intention of replacing the dollar. Previously, former PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said the digital yuan was a solution to help China fight the potential threat from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Kapron predicts that if the digital currency fails to attract users, the Chinese authorities will take steps to increase the control of data collected by internet and financial companies such as Ant Group and Tencent. . Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Francis Chan also thinks that Chinese authorities can force Internet platforms and businesses to use the digital yuan. Chan and BI analyst Sharnie Wong predict that the electronic yuan will be widely used in China before the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It is likely that the digital yuan will take up 9% of the domestic online payment market share by 2025. That will be a big change, but the digital yuan still has a long way to go before the challenge. status of Alipay and WePay. These two payment applications account for a total of 90% of the market share in China. Expert Michael Ho, director of financial services at Oliver Wyman, also said that convincing the world to accept the digital yuan even more difficult.

The most famous resort island in the Golden Temple has its own international airport. So tourists can freely roam the island without risking spreading the virus to other parts of Thailand, according to Reuters . “If we can build immunity to 70-80% of the island’s population, we can accept vaccinated foreign tourists without quarantine,” said Piyapong Choowong, deputy governor. Phuket, says. In addition to health workers, government cabinet members and the elderly, Thailand also prioritizes Phuket’s people to get vaccinated over other localities, emphasizing the central role tourism plays in the country’s economy. Phuket aims to complete the Covid-19 vaccination for the majority of its population by July 1. Before the pandemic, foreign visitors contributed 11-12% of Thailand’s GDP. However, the country’s tourism industry has lost 1.45 million jobs since the outbreak. In 2020, only 6.7 million foreign tourists come to Thailand, spending about 11 billion USD, down from 40 million visitors and 61 billion USD in 2019. In the third quarter of this year, the government of the Golden Temple expects at least 100,000 tourists to return to Phuket. As the global vaccination program progresses, the number is expected to be 6.5 million visitors in the fourth quarter and spend $ 11 billion. “It is a challenge but if it succeeds, it will contribute to the country’s GDP to some extent. We do not expect visitors to come massively like a dam break but hope there will be many generous visitors,” said Yuthasak Supasorn , Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, said. He said tourists from Europe, the United Arab Emirates and the US will return to Thailand first. Thailand’s most famous resort island hopes to soon return the tourism industry to normal thanks to the early vaccination program. During the outbreak, strict 14-day quarantine requirements for foreign tourists helped Thailand limit the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections to about 29,100 cases and 95 deaths. However, it is this plan that also makes many tourists afraid to come here to travel. Long-term tourist attraction programs that test negative for SARS-CoV-2 have largely failed, even with innovative measures such as “golf isolation”. Songklod Wongchai, an analyst at Finansia Syrus, believes Thailand can quickly revive its tourism industry. This expert gave an example of the Maldives, the island nation whose hotel booking rate rebounded to 70-80% despite cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. “Increased demand could come back faster than expected. I think the ‘land of smiles’ will soon start to smile again, ”Wongchai said.

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As VnEconomy reportedAccording to the latest figures from the State Bank, in the first quarter of 2021, real estate credit has reached 1.85 million billion dong, up 3%. So this number has fully reflected and is the main reason why the real estate market is so hot today?

During the past 3 years, real estate investment credit has always been closely cared and controlled by the State Bank. Therefore, credit growth in this area tends to decrease. In 2020 alone, it will increase by only 11.89%, while the previous two years 2018 and 2019 will increase from 26-28%.

According to the operator’s representative, at the end of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, real estate credit tends to inch up a bit. However, the growth rate is only equivalent to the overall credit growth of the whole country of 2.93%.

Credit for life has also reached nearly 1.87 million billion, up 1.2% compared to the beginning of the year. In particular, although it is difficult, it is also necessary to evaluate how much consumer credit is poured into real estate.

At the same time, compared to the same period in 2020 when the epidemic causes the real estate credit rate to increase by 1.84%, the above rate may be higher. But compared with the time of the first quarter of 2019 was 5.19% and the previous years, this rate is not higher, even much lower.

If you look at the above statistics, it can be seen that real estate credit is not the main cause of the current “land fever”.

However, when VnEconomy exchanged with an economist, he said that the above figure could not fully assess the credit flow flowing into real estate. Because, credit for life has also reached nearly 1.87 million billion, or 1.2% increase compared to the beginning of the year. In particular, although it is difficult, it is necessary to evaluate how much consumer credit is poured into real estate.

“When surveying a few projects that are selling land plots in the outskirts of Hanoi, I find that the buyers are mainly speculators, they not only buy 1 or 2 plots, but buy the whole range. In addition to existing out-of-pocket money, capital from the bank is indispensable. It is worth mentioning that they are allowed to borrow capital in the form of consumption, but with the amount of up to tens of billion dong, ”said the expert.

Besides, he also said that the real estate market is welcoming many new “players”. They are inherently participating in other industries, but due to the Covid-19 translation, their production and business have stalled. While real estate profit margin skyrocketed, so decided to change direction. In fact, just go online to search for the phrase “encroach on real estate” to be able to identify these new “players”.

“The capital accumulated for many years has been converted to real estate, while the capital for business operations is borrowed from the bank. Thus, this credit flow will be listed on production and business activities, not on real estate. The statistic is just the tip of the iceberg, ”said the expert.

The State Bank is asking credit institutions to inspect and strengthen supervision of regulations on real estate lending conditions, to ensure compliance with regulations, while being able to manage cash flow when loan.

That is an expert opinion, but on the part of the State Bank, Deputy Governor Dao Minh Tu said there are many reasons for the real estate market to overheat in recent years, such as rumors about planning information, the supply is limited while the demand is great, the land price list increases …

In addition, Mr. Tu also noted that real estate loans have two subjects, one is lending to the low-cost housing market segments, social houses or real estate with the nature of consumption. it is still guaranteed to serve the people well.

Second, real estate projects and high-end segments such as villas, resorts … with poor liquidity in the future will be revalued and strictly controlled.

“Real estate credit status higher than overall credit growth only appears in a few credit institutions and mainly focuses on the first object,” said the Deputy Governor.

Over the past years, the State Bank has consistently maintained its management target and has taken many measures to control credit in potentially risky areas, including real estate. For example, the system is implementing a regulation on short-term deposits for medium and long-term loans at 40% and that these loans must apply a risk factor of about 200%.

At the same time, the Deputy Governor also said that the State Bank is asking credit institutions to inspect and strengthen supervision of regulations on real estate lending conditions, to ensure compliance with regulations, in parallel. with that is managing cash flow when lending.

“The most important goal of 2021 when setting a credit growth target of 12% is to focus on the priority and necessary areas. Focusing on key works and projects of the State, as well as prioritizing certain economic sectors, such as exports to support economic growth rates according to the goals set by the National Assembly. Therefore, real estate credit will be tightly controlled and cannot increase hotly ”, Mr. Tu emphasized.